Posts filed under Camera Phones

Choosing the best camera phone is a nightmare as there are so many to choose from. In fact, 2009 was a bumper year for camera phones, with 5 megapixels now the norm, 8 megapixels becoming increasingly popular, and Sony Ericsson and Samsung raising the bar still further with their 12 megapixel monsters.

To help make your task easier, we’ve rounded up the best camera phones of 2009 for you, and even picked a winner (actually, 3 winners, but who’s counting?!).

If you’re not convinced by our choice, check out our guide on the six essential camera phone features to look out for to ensure you get the best one for your money.

Samsung have come up with a somewhat bizarre way to promote their latest camera phone, the glorious Samsung G800. They’ve somehow managed to get it top billing in the German opera “Wagners Nibelungenring for children”, in which the 5 megapixel 3x optical zoom camera phone is used to take a picture of Bruennhilde, which is then shown to Siegfried, making it “essential for the progression of the story”.

Er, quite! Now normally this wouldn’t be such great news, and would just be seen as a lame attempt to bring an existing opera up to date using “modern technology” that the kids use! However, Samsung are making a big deal of it, and have even got it mentioned in the official casting list, which the actual human cast must have been thrilled with!

Oh well, whatever sells your camera phones, I guess!

[Source: Aving.net]

Camera phones are notorious for taking extremely poor pictures in low light conditions due to the weak nature of the LED flashes that they use. Recently, however, new technologies have emerged that produce superior low light performance without compromising the camera phone’s battery. Both Xenon flashes and new high current LED flashes are capable of taking much better pictures in the dark than the traditional low power LED flashes of old.

But how much better are they? Can a camera phone really take good pictures in low light conditions? And which camera phones are best at taking low light pictures?

This article compares a variety of camera phone flash technologies, and identifies the camera phones that are best at taking low light pictures.

Update: Check out our 2009 Camera Phone Buyer’s Guide, and also our pick of the best camera phones for 2009.

Flickr have released some interesting stats showing, amongst other things, which are the most popular camera phones its users use to upload their camera phone pics. As you can see from the graph, the top five are dominated by Sony Ericsson and Nokia, with the Sony Ericsson K750i coming out consistently on top.

What’s interesting is that all the top 5 are not necessarily the most popular camera phones, but all are capable of taking good quality pics, meaning picture quality means more to your average flickr user’s choice of mobile phone than any other feature. So if you want a decent quality camera phone this Christmas, just follow the flickrers!
[Source: Flickr, via MobileTracker]

LG’s camera phones are set to get a lot more sophisticated with the announcement that they’ve partnered with Germany’s Schneider-Kreuznach to include the German company’s world-leading camera lenses in their forthcoming range of camera phones.

With Sony Ericsson mobile phones using Sony’s CyberShot technology and Nokia’s N-series using Carl Zeiss lenses, LG had to do something to improve the quality of the photos its cameraphones are capable of producing.

Leaked pictures have emerged of BlackBerry’s forthcoming Blackberry 8100 camera phone. Famed for its business-specific devices that provide instant access to email, BlackBerry have decided to move into the consumer market with the development of the 8100, the company’s first full-blown mobile phone.

More details and pictures of the BlackBerry 8100 mobile phone after the jump.

Nokia have released the Nokia N73 ‘multimedia computer’. The N73 comes hot on the heels of the Nokia N93, which was also released today. Obviously Nokia feel the summer’s been far too boring, and need to liven things up with a brace of N-Series phones!

The N73 is not quite as all-singing all-dancing as the N93, but it’s still a superb phone. 3.2 megapixel camera, stereo speakers, great browser, support for Flickr, and Amazon Anywhere all come as part of the package.

Nokia have begun shipping the new Nokia N93. With an amazing set of features, the N93 is one of the most hotly-anticipated phones of 2006. 3 megapixel camera, superb video features, WiFi, the list goes on.

LG have announced the new LG KG920 mobile phone, which comes fully-loaded with a 5 megapixel camera. Although LG have released other mobile phones with similarly-high megapixel cameras, the KG920 is aimed squarely at Sony Ericsson’s CyberShot phones, focusing heavily on the quality of the pictures it can take.

Details and more pictures of the LG KG920 after the jump.

The Nokia N93 has been previewed by AllAboutSymbian, who’ve managed to get hold of one of these fantastic handsets before Nokia officially launches it. The Nokia N93 is a superb all-singing all-dancing mobile phone (or ‘multimedia computer’, as Nokia now prefers to call them), coming fully loaded with 3.2 megapixel camera (with 3x optical zoom), MP3 player, superb video camera, TV-Out, WiFi, 3G, GSM, USB, Blutooth, UPnP and TV-Out connectivity, and a superb browser for a mobile phone.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N93 after the jump.