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Sony Ericsson to Include Automatic Zoom in Cameraphones |
tranced
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Sony Ericsson is taking its cameraphones very seriously. At the rate we are going we will probably have most point and shoot cameras replaced with cameraphones. We’ve seen plenty of cell phones sporting a rather good built-in camera. 5 to 8 megapixels is what we’ve seen so far and the 9 megapixel camera module is waiting to be inserted in various phone. Sony Ericsson is also rumored to launch a 12 megapixel camera sometime in 2009 so it’s not quite a surprise that the company wants to improve the features of its cameraphones.
Besides the rising megapixel Sony Ericsson is working on shutter and autofocus speeds, zoom and many others. They have a recent patent which talks about better zoom functionality. Sony Ericsson wants to make the zoom automatic by following the movement of the handset. Moving your hand away from your body and closing it to your body would automatically make the device zoom in and out. That means future cameraphones should be aware of their movement and of their current position related to you. That means future cameraphones will have accelerometers and proximity sensors. So let’s see a working prototype already!
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strizlow800
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Well increasing the autofocus speed would be great. Everyone would like to take pictures faster.
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sigea
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This is cool.
As long as it allows me to choose what to zoom on, my P1i autofocuses on background when i want it on foreground and foreground when on background
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strizlow800
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Mine is working fine (P1 also) but sometimes it knows to mess up the picture if you aren't careful where you are focusing. In fact all autofocus phones are like that.
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groovepeppy
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Is it normal when they focusing the backwards?
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ocean21
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What's the point of this actually? Just another gimmick..
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...and gimmicks sell 
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On 2008-10-21 16:55:28, ocean21 wrote:
What's the point of this actually? Just another gimmick..
Combating the accusations of a lack of innovation perhaps?
I think these ideas are great and show smart thinking is alive and well in SE.
I've always liked how SE phones can be setup and adjusted to the user with multiple shortcuts, toolbars, custom ringtones, themes and third party apps like Opera mini and MyPhoneExplorer. Now it appears the phones will take recognising user movements to the next level, past that of Pedometer and ShakeMe. I think it's a good thing.
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gtr83
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And what about the magic words: "optical zoom"? |
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Maybe in the C905's successor... We hope.
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groovepeppy
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I don't think there is any SE phone with optical zoom, are they?
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In japan there are. I think the so905ics has it, but I'm not 100% sure.
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gtr83
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http://www.phonearea.net/news[....]905ics-cybershot-camera-phone/
It has 3x optical zoom, 5MP resolution and LED flash for the camera, and an LCD WVGA screen. If only it came out internationally it would have been a bestseller... |
adsada
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Instead of investing in this stupid thing, why can they improve the sensor or get some Optical-zoom in the phone? Not some stupid move back and forward thing. No one even uses the Digital zoom feature you might as well edit it later on photoshop. The only useful things the zoom buttons are for are for turning the music volume up and down and check the clock when the phone is locked. No need in this stupid thing honestly.
Anyway until SE get off their backsides here is something you can use just now:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unive[....]ssfully-Standard/dp/B0013BAL8Q
I almost was about to buy this ages ago, but my senses told me not to. Just look at the damage it would do to the sides of your phone...no thank you. I want my K850i to look as pretty as ever. |
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On 2008-10-22 04:56:34, carkitter wrote:
On 2008-10-21 16:55:28, ocean21 wrote:
What's the point of this actually? Just another gimmick..
Combating the accusations of a lack of innovation perhaps?
I think these ideas are great and show smart thinking is alive and well in SE.
I've always liked how SE phones can be setup and adjusted to the user with multiple shortcuts, toolbars, custom ringtones, themes and third party apps like Opera mini and MyPhoneExplorer. Now it appears the phones will take recognising user movements to the next level, past that of Pedometer and ShakeMe. I think it's a good thing.
To tell you the truth, i think it's a gimmick also. I mean be realistic se is waisting development time on a simple zoom function feature when they have more than a hand full of phones with software issues undelt with to this day.`Zooming in manually is perfectly fine and i dont see no problem with it what so ever. The idea is just as useful as an automatic mailbox opener. I see this bringing up problems. I mean se sells prone to brick phones and now there going to waist time with a zoom function?!$#%& Hope they put alot of time behind this technology before release or it will be somthing most users will be disabling.
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I can see it all right now Plank takes a picture of his kids while a bus moves in the background and the automatic zoom focuses on somthing like the bus wheel. Then Plank post the pic up and boast how its so cool when theres no logical sence behind it.
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[ This Message was edited by: Sirhackalot on 2008-10-23 02:02 ] |
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Posted: 2008-10-03 04:40
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