telecom, Socially Responsible Use of Your Cellphone Camera

Let me upfront about this. I make no money off of this. In conjunction
with YAHOO, there is an opportunity to possibly earn $10,000 in the
name of your favorite charity by taking pictures and uploading them
with your camera phone.

I have put a banner on my website: www.david.com It links back to the
YAHOO information page with all of the necessary information.

This is a great use of mobile technology and an even greater idea.

Thank you for your indulgence.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Are any cellular picture phones at the
point of producing good enough pictures yet to make them worthwhile?
Now I suppose if I was trying to sneak a few pictures out of a men's
locker room, I would take what I could get and be grateful for that
limited quality. But can even the newest and most expensive cell
phones with built in cameras produce decent digital photos or .jpg
images as of yet? I have not seen one yet I was very impressed with.
PAT]

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Are any cellular picture phones at the

How about the SPH-2300, Samsung's 3.2 megapixel camera phone? Of
course, the lens on this model is quite noticeable
http://www.gsmarena.com/index.php3?sRedir=http ://www.gsmarena.com/newsdetail.php3?idNews=56

Casio's A5406CA has 3.2 megapixels and a "twilight" setting. see
http://www.casio.co.jp/k-tai/a5406ca/

See also http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=13466 for others.

I don't know if any of these have hit the US yet, but its only a
matter of time.

And in the next year or two:
Qualcomm introduces chipsets for six megapixel camera phones
http://www.wirelessmoment.com/2004/05/qualcomm_introd.html

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not think any of those models
are commonly (if at all) available here in USA as of yet. But they
do look like good equipment. The last time I was downtown checking
out camera cell phones from our local dealers (Cingular Wireless,
Dobson Cellular One, Alltel [both the corporate kiosk at Walmart
and Radio Shack, their local agent], and United States Cellular),
none of them had anything I felt was worth bothering with. They
all had picture phones but they were all tiny litle pictures and
not very good, IMO. I will go check again in six months to a year
when quality will be better and the price will have come down
also. PAT]

In message < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > TELECOM Digest Editor
noted in response to XXXX@XXXXX.COM (David Blumenstein):


It depends on how you define "decent" -- There are plenty of "not bad
for web display" cameras, even my Palm can take a 0.7megapixel picture.

If you're talking about "acceptable for print", it can't and won't
happen without much larger lens then we can currently produce in a
device you'd be willing to hold up to your ear.

There is a lot more then raw megapixels. Take a Canon Digital Rebel,
set it to 0.7MP and compare the output to a typical Palm/Phone/$20
disposable digital and you'll see the difference even though the actual
megapixel rating is the same.

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