Cingular 8525's innards reveal camera option

by Sean Cooper, posted Mar 1st 2007 at 11:00AM

File this under serious DIY friends, a user over at HowardForums was kind enough to take his buddies' Cingular 8525 apart and peeped that in the corner of the device is a tray and a adapter to attach a camera to (check the picture above). Amidst a small frenzy of controversy, complaints, and general sadness, Cingular opted to not include the video calling functionality of the reference design HTC TyTn. This of course leads us to hope that a mod is possible to get the forward-facing camera working. Mind you, this would require hunting down a camera for the device, drilling a hole or replacing the faceplate, and, of course, voiding the warranty you hold so dear to mobile-loving little hearts. Still -- we are sure somebody will try it, and if you do, please drop us a line and let us know how it works out.

[Via HowardForums]

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, GSM, HSDPA, Misc

Tags: 8525, camera, hsdpa, mod

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Jimmy B @ Mar 1st 2007 12:25PM

My orange m3100 (hermes100) already has a front facing camera, its kinda pointless though as video calling hasnt really taken off in europe.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60811077@N00/406938818/

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Randy @ Mar 1st 2007 12:44PM

It would probably also require f/w flash as I'm sure Cingular may have removed the camera bits from the f/w.

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