Cameraphones

How to Trick Your Cameraphone Into Taking Non-Crappy Shots

Today’s Lifehacker Top Ten list shows a half-score ways to get the most out of that most humble of lenses (short of the iPod Nano): The cameraphone. From DVD-laser macro lenses to editing tricks, it’s a great guide. [Lifehacker] https://gizmodo.com/ipod-nano-review-5356015

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Fine, I’m Shooting My Own Video…On a Phone…While Surfing

Big Kahuna [noun]: One who surfs, snowboards or consumes three-pound cheeseburgers while shooting video self-portraiture on a cameraphone. [Surfer via TheRawFeed]

Tech News Mark Wilson

LG GC990 Louvre Cameraphone Shoots 12MP Photos, 720p Video

The sliding point where cameraphones and point-and-shoot cameras seems to keep moving towards the latter. The latest hybrid is the 720p, 12-megapixel LG GC990 Louvre, which, at least from the back, actually looks like a camera. We can get nervous about the potential quality of such high-res photos and video coming from such a small…

Tech News John Herrman

Ideas We Like: iPods With Cameras

Techcrunch is reporting, via “sources in Asia,” that Apple is gobbling up huge numbers of camera sensors—the same ones used in the iPhone 3GS—for use in iPods. If Apple isn’t really doing this, they should be. First, the Techcrunch take: Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type…

Tech News John Herrman

Researchers Use Cameraphones to Help Develop Mars Imaging Software

Scientists working with the Mars Society have been walking around the Utah desert in spacesuits, snapping photos of the ground in an attempt to develop image recognition software for use on the Red Planet. New Scientist says these researchers are attempting to develop software which can take an image of Mars’ terrain, and identify any…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert

Man Threatened, Arrested For Taking Picture Of Open ATM In Public

Despite the fact that this photo was snapped in broad daylight in a busy Seattle REI store, Shane Becker was threatened by fake cops and arrested by real ones. One of the Loomis & Fargo guards servicing the public ATM threatened to tackle Becker if he tried to leave the store—apparently snapping a photo of…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Cameraphone with a Physical Shutter Spotted, Could Improve Image Quality

Cameraphone pictures suck, generally speaking. It’s because the lenses are tiny and garbage. But this Jabil cameraphone module with a physical shutter could change things. The module measures 10 x 10 x 8mm and has a moving blade-style shutter that prevents light from entering the lens until you’ve press the shot button. It also has…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot Phone Comes Complete With Geotagging, Flickr

The Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot comes in a slider form factor and has a 2.4-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera, face detection and geotagging. The phone also comes with a full suite of photo-specific features, such as Flickr Uploadr, ShutterSmile (snaps when it detects a smile) and BestPic (takes 9 rapid-fire photos, keeps the best) enhancements, as…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Rumor: Samsung Announcing First 12MP Cameraphone This Month

Samsung is reportedly planning to announce the first 12MP cameraphone at the Mobile World Conference in about two weeks, lobbing another salvo of megapixels in the moment’s most pointless technology race. Details are slim about the handset, which is telling—if the most notable and leakworthy feature of this phone is a noisy, pumped-spec camera then…

Gadgets John Herrman

Confirmed: BlackBerry Curve 8900 Coming to T-Mobile in February

Well that was a neat little progression: Early suspicions, followed by a purported internal leak, capped with an official announcement. T-Mobile will be adding the BlackBerry Curve 8900 to their lineup come February. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8900-hits-t-mobile-feb-18-5117642 The press release doesn’t get any more specific than that, but seems to lend authority to the previous leak, which indicated…

Tech News John Herrman

The First Good Look at Sony Ericsson’s C510 (Kate) Cybershot Phone

Sony Ericsson’s upcoming C510 (Kate) Cybershot phone has been floating around for a while now, but these images from Daily Mobile represent the first decent look at it. In case you missed it, here is a rundown of the features: •3.2 MP AF camera and LED •Face detection •Smile shutter •Auto rotation when viewing •Cyber-shot™…

Tech News Sean Fallon

BlackBerry Curve 8900 And 8MP Samsung Memoir Look Certain For Feb. 18 on T-Mobile

We had a strong suspicion before, but this release memo over at BGR appears to confirm that T-Mobile will get the Curve 8900 and the 8-megapixel Samsung Memoir (which has gone by a number of different names through its FCC process) on February 18. In other shocking news, the 3G-equipped TM506 will be available in…

Gadgets John Mahoney

SnaptureFlash Hands-on: The iPhone’s First Camera Flash Solution

Snapture Labs launched their SnaptureFlash product, which promises to bring an external Xenon flash to the iPhone—one of the first external accessories to work with an app—but it has a catch. The SnaptureFlash product is roughly the size of any other iPhone case, which is to say its pretty slim and light. It adds 3/8-inch…

Tech News Adrian Covert

T-Mobile Is Getting the 8MP Samsung Pixon M8800L Cameraphone Too

Recall that Samsung 8MP shooter that was previously spied in blurrycam photos with T-Mo branding, but then spotted in the FCC’s filing cabinets with AT&T’s 3G livery? Well, the FCC sleuths over at Boy Genius have dug up the same phone, now designated the T929 and equipped with 1700MHz support for T-Mobile’s 3G network after…

Gadgets John Mahoney

Sony Ericsson C905 Hits The FCC With U.S. 3G, 8.1MP Camera

The race to bring the first retardedly huge 8MP cameraphone to the U.S. is on! After a Samsung 8MP piece with T-Mobile livery surfaced, the FCC has outed the 8.1MP C905 bound for AT&T. https://gizmodo.com/spied-t-mobile-branded-samsung-may-be-the-states-first-5104382 Asia and Europe have been enjoying the C905 since the summer, but the FCC report lists the 850/1900 WCDMA banding,…

Tech News John Mahoney

Spied T-Mobile-Branded Samsung May Be The States’ First 8-Megapixel Cameraphone

TmoNews is pretty confident that the cellphone depicted in these blurryvision photos is a successor to the Asia-only 8MP Pixon, only with T-Mobile branding. If legit, it would be the states’ first 8MP cameraphone. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-pixon-8mp-camera-phone-gets-groped-5057284 If you’re thinking eight megapixels on a cameraphone is a bit much, you’re not alone. But the Pixon’s camera was…

Gadgets John Mahoney

Night Camera iPhone App Picks the Decisive Moment via Accelerometer, Eliminates Shaky Hands

Even if you have the still hands of Solid Snake on Diazepam, night shots with a cellphone camera will often turn out a blur. Night Camera detects motion and pulls the trigger when your shakies are at their steadiest. When you press the shutter button with Night Camera, the app starts taking accelerometer readings for…

Tech News John Mahoney

Scalado Promises to Finally Kill Irritating Phone Camera Lag

It’s the worst thing about phone cameras (except for the image noise, poor low-light performance, desaturated colors and incessant motion blur): the picture delay. Scalado says they’ve managed to eliminate it by constantly recording and displaying actual JPG images of the frame in real time. In other words, when you take a picture, rather than…

Tech News John Herrman

Blow-Controlled Phone Camera Can Only Take Pictures of Confused, Concerned People

There are some inventions that cause electronics manufacturers and consumers alike to wonder why they hadn’t been invented before, and how anyone ever lived without them. And then there’s this. Fantalog Interactive has devised a camera phone that takes pictures when you blow on it. Apparently following some kind of hilarious global realization that phones…

Tech News John Herrman

Sony Sets 2012 Goal For 12MP Cell Cameras, Meets it in a Week

Last week Sony Ericsson predicted quite a few things for the cell phones of 2012: faster processors, high-resolution screens, superfast connectivity and most specifically, 12-20MP cameras. Well what do you know! Sony — that Sony — has just announced a 12.25MP CMOS sensor for phone cameras. Looks like either a horrible breakdown of internal communication…

Tech News John Herrman

How to Trick Your Cameraphone Into Taking Non-Crappy Shots

Fine, I’m Shooting My Own Video…On a Phone…While Surfing

LG GC990 Louvre Cameraphone Shoots 12MP Photos, 720p Video

Ideas We Like: iPods With Cameras

Researchers Use Cameraphones to Help Develop Mars Imaging Software

Man Threatened, Arrested For Taking Picture Of Open ATM In Public

Cameraphone with a Physical Shutter Spotted, Could Improve Image Quality

Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot Phone Comes Complete With Geotagging, Flickr

Rumor: Samsung Announcing First 12MP Cameraphone This Month

Confirmed: BlackBerry Curve 8900 Coming to T-Mobile in February

The First Good Look at Sony Ericsson’s C510 (Kate) Cybershot Phone

BlackBerry Curve 8900 And 8MP Samsung Memoir Look Certain For Feb. 18 on T-Mobile

SnaptureFlash Hands-on: The iPhone’s First Camera Flash Solution

T-Mobile Is Getting the 8MP Samsung Pixon M8800L Cameraphone Too

Sony Ericsson C905 Hits The FCC With U.S. 3G, 8.1MP Camera

Spied T-Mobile-Branded Samsung May Be The States’ First 8-Megapixel Cameraphone

Night Camera iPhone App Picks the Decisive Moment via Accelerometer, Eliminates Shaky Hands

Scalado Promises to Finally Kill Irritating Phone Camera Lag

Blow-Controlled Phone Camera Can Only Take Pictures of Confused, Concerned People

Sony Sets 2012 Goal For 12MP Cell Cameras, Meets it in a Week

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