New mobile phone from LG Electronics. On sale in Korea by the end of the year. No word on a U.S. release, but the specs are interesting enough to note. 1.1 megapixel camera, 192MB memory, 2.8 inch 262,000 color TFT LCD, USB, IrDA, and a nice looking design to boot. Runs Microsoft's Pocket PC OS.
Two issues: where's the bluetooth? And when is someone going to put jpeg compression software into these camera phones? To belabor this point yet again: I want to take high res pictures with my camera phone, but I want to download them over USB to my computer at my leisure. When I'm in the field I want the phone to make a second, reduced size image, suitable for sending over slow cellular data connections. Come on! That should be easy. One click produces a full size 1 meg image, and a user defined scaled down image (say 100k.)
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Two issues: where's the bluetooth? And when is someone going to put jpeg compression software into these camera phones? To belabor this point yet again: I want to take high res pictures with my camera phone, but I want to download them over USB to my computer at my leisure. When I'm in the field I want the phone to make a second, reduced size image, suitable for sending over slow cellular data connections. Come on! That should be easy. One click produces a full size 1 meg image, and a user defined scaled down image (say 100k.)
- jim 10-23-2003 1:16 am