blackberry camera quality!
why do blackberry not make a phone with a better quality camera, i have the bold which is 2 megapixels, which is pants for a phone nowadays.
i am aware there are other blackberrys with a 3.2 and when i get my next blackberry i will be gettin the onyx or tour. but cummon! there are phones with like 8 megapixels????
so does any1 know is there goin to be a blackberry like this soon? cuz i can hold on a bit longer for one, or at least a piece of mind to know one is in the making!!!
Don't fall prey to the "megapixel myth"
(Codito, above, pretty much nailed it...but I'll elaborate)
First of all, megapixels ain't all that. What needs to be considered is the size of the sensor inside the phone onto which those megapixels are crammed. Sensors in cell phones are tiny, sensors in point & shoot digital cameras are larger, and sensors in digital SLR cameras are larger still. 8 megapixels will look excellent on the SLR, a little worse on the P&S, and quite crappy on the phone. Why? Because the more pixels that are crammed into a small space, the less sensitive they are to light and the more noise is produced when an image is created because the sensor is "amping up" to capture detail.
Second of all, cell phones should NEVER be relied upon as one's sole imaging device because they just can't compete with imaging devices with larger sensors. Point and shoot cameras are so cheap and so small now that there really is no excuse NOT to have one IF you really give a crap about how your pictures look.
Cell cameras are great for in-the-moment stuff when for whatever reason you don't have a better camera handy. Resign yourself to that wisdom and you will not be disappointed again with images created with your cell phone.
JM2C and YMMV
("megapixel myth"...originally Ken Rockwell's wisdom with which I completely agree...check out his website sometime)