Nokia's always coming up with some new
harebrained scheme for cramming a gargantuan camera lens into one of its new phones -- trust us, if the Finnish phone giant could accomplish this task by breaking into Fort Knox or compromising your precious bodily fluids, it would. The latest effort by Nokia comes in the form of a patent that might point the way to an upcoming video phone, possibly the N85, which could give
current compact shooters a run for their money. Current thinking on that device is that it'll be a video-oriented successor to the
N96, with a WQVGA screen and a 5 (or maybe even 8) megapixel camera. It's mostly conjecture at this point, but we hope Nokia accomplishes it with a thinner device than we're looking at in this patent.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DeeDee @ Jun 2nd 2008 4:23PM
its says 6 megapixels they can do better than that what about the DSLR nokia N99?
MinceyFresh @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:42PM
N85? What happened to N83 and N84?
(though I can see N84 being skipped because of the whole "4" thing being taboo in Asian languages)...
Lee @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:11PM
although it doesn't float my boat either, i'd bet there's a sizable crowd that frequently carries around both a phone and a small digital camera, and would appreciate a single widget that could replace both, even if it is a bit thick around the waist. (of course most modern phones already have camera/video capability, but too sucky to be of much use). Lots of us are moving to thicker phones to get a foldout/slideout QWERTY keyboard - so why not for a cam?
and ditto DeeDee re: speculation about 5 or 8mp - it clearly shows "6" in the illustration