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Any chance this baby is GSM? If it's quadband I just might consider grabbing one...]]>Dec 6th 2007 3:41AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/Dec 6th 2007 5:10AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/Dec 6th 2007 6:36AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/How much would you be prepared to pay for a camera phone with a CMOS sensor from a dSLR and with the optics to support it? And keep in mind that CMOS is only good when the sensor is very large. When you go down to the sizes used in P&S cameras and camera phones then picture quality suffers tremendously and high quality noise reduction software is required to cope with the large amount of noise.
]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/Yeah, I know that the CMOS is only good when it's large (which is why I quipped that it should share the *same* CMOS as the DSLR next to it)...

I'm pretty sure that if someone did decide to try putting something such as an APS-C sensor into a mobile phone, they'd probably have to radically redesign the shape of the phone and position of the camera beyond any sort of practicality.

I've seen crazier things, though, so who knows...]]>Dec 6th 2007 2:51PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/Dec 6th 2007 4:43PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/05/the-lensas-f2218-why-wait-for-your-8-megapixel-cameraphone/
Regarding the comments about lack of auto focus, I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. A camera with fixed focus is always ready to shoot immediately while auto focus always takes some time, plus that auto focus requires good lightning. Some auto focus cameras lack focus assist LEDs so these are very difficult to operate in low light situations. One example is my i-mobile 902. It has auto focus, Sony 5 MP CCD ICX495 sensor (also used in Canon's 5 MP P&S cameras), but no focus assist LED! It shoots extremely good night photos but only of typical landscape shots where infinity focus is OK.]]>Dec 7th 2007 4:02AM