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iPhone SDK's seedy underbelly reveals painful limitations {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 11th 2008 6:37AM "Granted, they're suggesting here that apps should be smart enough to save and restore state as they're killed and restarted, but we figure it takes more than that to simulate true task switching."
I thought the iPhone was running OS X. If it does, why would you have to "simulate" task switching. Is this how the desktop version also behaves?
The Lensas F2218: why wait for your 8 megapixel cameraphone? {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 7th 2007 4:02AM Yes, the radical redesign would be necessary, hence my comment about "the optics to support" the sensor.
Regarding the comments about lack of auto focus, I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. A camera with fixed focus is always ready to shoot immediately while auto focus always takes some time, plus that auto focus requires good lightning. Some auto focus cameras lack focus assist LEDs so these are very difficult to operate in low light situations. One example is my i-mobile 902. It has auto focus, Sony 5 MP CCD ICX495 sensor (also used in Canon's 5 MP P&S cameras), but no focus assist LED! It shoots extremely good night photos but only of typical landscape shots where infinity focus is OK.
The Lensas F2218: why wait for your 8 megapixel cameraphone? {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 6th 2007 12:06PM MinceyFresh,
How much would you be prepared to pay for a camera phone with a CMOS sensor from a dSLR and with the optics to support it? And keep in mind that CMOS is only good when the sensor is very large. When you go down to the sizes used in P&S cameras and camera phones then picture quality suffers tremendously and high quality noise reduction software is required to cope with the large amount of noise.
Samsung's 8 megapixel CMOS sensor for phones -- another world's first {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 15th 2007 5:35AM "Just make sure you've got plenty of light to frame those shots if you're expecting anything close to a quality image."
Samsung, LG, Gigabyte and Samart produced phones with 5 MP CCD image sensors last year. I own Samart's i-mobile 902 and the sensor in this phone is Sony's 5 MP ICX495 which can also be found in for example Canon's SD450 digital camera. The drawback with CCD is the need for more power: if I shoot lots of photos, the phone gets hot and the 1100mAh battery drains quickly, almost as fast as a Windows Mobile PDA battery.
Hands-on with the LG KU990 {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 31st 2007 11:15AM Tried to "cheat" with the URL http://www.engadgetmobile.com/photos/hands-on-with-the-lg-ku990/ but got only a "Coming soon" page.
LG's KU990 touchscreen "Viewty" is a 5 megapixel, HSDPA beauty {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 21st 2007 4:19AM 120fps video? Ultrasmooth video, but at what frame size? 64x48?
