What kind of camera are these phones replacing? Credit-card sized
cameras that indeed are as lousy as phone cameras are?
Note that it isn't merely a question of megapixels. More pixels
doesn't make the image better, if the sensor stays as small. Smaller
pixels create lots of noise, and have no dynamic range. You could
manufacture a 20 megapixel sensor small enough to go in a phone - no
problem for the factory. It'd be useless though.
It'd be nice if a camera is optional, at least. Some doesn't want to pay
for it, some want to use the camera where cameras aren't allowed. And
consider the market - this hacker's phone are for technically interested
people, most of who get a decent camera if they want to take pictures.
And of course, a pop-out camera leaves room that can be used for
something else. Such as room for several SD-cards, perhaps even that
secondary SIM option. More SDcards is good - one for the OS and one
that can be changed with the system running. (Or RAID, for the specially
interested :-) Two SIMs are what business users want - one for
private use and one for company use.
Nice to have, and why so expensive? If the problem is small series,
cooperate with some other phone manufacturer and have them resell a
small portion of their large shipment of 3G chips.
Yes, it is necessary to update the whole screen in a timely manner. Full
screen
video ought to be ok, and this would speed up the GUI in general too.
Helge Hafting
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