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If anything, the Sony Ericsson t68i was the firing gun for convergence. I used to use it frequently - not just as a novelty. Would send them via mms where they'
by madaxe_again 10y ago
If anything, the Sony Ericsson t68i was the firing gun for convergence. I used to use it frequently - not just as a novelty. Would send them via mms where they'd then be published on my website - 140 chars, image, etc - my personal Twitter in 2002.
But either way, Apple didn't invent camera phones.
- sbuk 10y agoNo one said they did. The suggestion is that the iPhone 4 was a watershed in cameras on smartphones. For a while the iPhone was considered the benchmark, and still is in many ways. As ever, the bigger number of pixels that other devices have does not necessarily mean better cameras. Optics play a huge role. Other mobile devices have caught up and some have exceeded the quality of the iPhones camera, but that doesn't change the fact that the iPhone 4 was an important milestone for smartphone photography.
- dingaling 10y ago> The suggestion is that the iPhone 4 was a watershed in cameras on smartphones Whilst it was the first iPhone to use a contemporaneous sensor, rather than cost-saving with previous-gen, it was still only a 5MP OmniVision OV5642 at the same time as Sony was installing 8MP sensors of a similar backlit configuration. Ironically Apple switched to using Sony's Exmor sensors for later models.
- chaostheory 10y agoHow? Did t68i even come with a camera?
- mnwg 10y agoIt was an attachment that plugged in the bottom of the phone. I don't remember being particularly impressed by the quality of the photos. It was getting chucked in with the phone eventually
- manicdee 10y agoIt did, literally, come along with a camera. You plugged the camera in to the charging socket. The photos were terrible: not even 256 colours, resolution in the order of 200 x 300. I used it twice and packed it away forever.