Digital Imaging
With the start of the new century, cellphones started to come with color screens and then an externa camera accessory. Within 3-4 years, this technology is so much developed that sometimes its hard to distinguish between cellphone, digital camera and camcorder. All this has been due to a huge user demand and place for this concept in the market. In this article i will discuss the achievements related with this field and the coming innovations.
Important Achievements
Sonyericsson T68i was able to attach camera as an accessory which used both cellphone and accessory memory and LCD as viewfinder. The resolution was not impressive but suitable for MMS messages. Soon there came a lot of cell phones with built-in camera Nokia 7250, Sonyericsson P800, Samsung true i are famous in this context. The area under development was to improve the resolution. Soon 640 x 480 resolution built-in cameras became heart of the market. Nowadays companies talk in megapixel values about their camera capability.The second area that has just started to develop is flash. Firstly cellphones came with LED like flash eg Samsung X600, sony ericsson k700i and some professional external flash modules. Cellphones with fully functional built-in flash are to be expected in the coming quarters.
Apart from still photography, abilities like capturing and streaming videos were also developed. A video format .3gp was developed specially in this context. All this with huge memory banks makes your cellphone an extreme gadget.