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    2 Mpixel x2 optical zoom ... when...

    The slow pace of mobile phones and lack of choice in this country is so bloody depressing.

    When are we going to get some 2 Mpixel x2 optical zoom phones, they have already been out in japan for a couple of months.

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    1 MP is out now, within a few months itll be standard, i guess a few months after? maybe early 2005

    we suck at technology, sorry mate
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    probably be a while yet (maybe a year?), and it'll probably be expensive when the good stuff does come out... :/

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    This time next year I'd imagine.
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    they will do, some now already have mmc and sd slots, so in the future they eventualy probably all will have
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    The resolution of the camera isn't everything though. I'd rather have a low res camera that takes good quality shots than a high res camera that takes rubbish shots. IMO, 1MP is fine for taking quick snaps.

    A proper optical zoom (and flash) would be nice though. I believe that there is a camera on the UK market which has an optical zoom but I can't remember which one it is.

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    gx30 ? duno if it has optical but its 1 MP

    the k700i has 1/2mp i think, but has a mirror and a flash

    my mates for a f500i too, i think the k700i probably is the same, it has 4X zoom, but its only digital
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    Heres a Jap vodafone phone which came out at the end of may, (kind of)

    http://www.vodafone.jp/english/produ...2sh/index.html

    Ive tried this one out and its pretty nice considering its a mobile phone.

    I liked this one below (its in japanese) but i dont think it has optical zoom as its says linear zoom which sounds like a spazzy tricky way of saying digital.

    http://panasonic.jp/mobile/p900iv/index.html

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    tbh the quality of pictures is going to be limited very much by the size of mobiles. Look at the size and weight of decent lenses, and then try fitting that into a small mobile. Not happening is it? Now, whats the use of 12mp if its got a ****e .5cm diameter lens feeding it the image? A picture is only as good as the weakest link in the chain.

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    Thats true - but then no one expects these mobiles to be a replacement for your Nikkon D1... do they?

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    At the moment we're seeing the convergence of devices. Phones that double up as cameras, PDAs, mp3 players, etc. A jack of all trades but master of none.

    Eventually, I believe that we'll see things diverge again. Instead of having a device that does everything, but doesn't do anything particularly well, we'll see focused devices. You might get a digital camera that has phone functionality so you can e-mail the pictures directly from the device or you might get an iPod that can download tunes directly from the internet.

    I guess you could compare it to what happened with the last generation of phones. Instead of there being a feature race, the race was to do with size. Phones got smaller and smaller until they couldn't really get any better. But now size is less of an issue for most consumers (my current phone is way bigger than my old Nokia 8210) and now people what x, y and z features. In time we'll see having every single feature ever as less important too and instead we'll look to find the phone that suits our needs and does it well.

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    i think thatll probably be true, i dont know about that phone that was linked to, but 2mp, and 2 opt looks nice

    it really looks like a digicam tho, i get the feeling it may be the start of the camera'phone' where people buy it half for the camera and half for the phone, not just phone with the bonus of an extra or 2
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    well 5mp camera has already been developed by samsung! here http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041020/323/f4wod.html

    Guess it'll be a while before we'll see that though...
    But before then i guess you'll have to settle for this little beast which has just been released in korea..
    http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...407110024.html
    it does have optical zoom though

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    just saw that 5mp today

    v nice
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