last research: October 29, 2009
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| published: November 5, 2009 last research: October 29, 2009 customercare@infoArtists.com |
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Why do you need a good camera phone? Because you don’t have your digital camera when you need it. Chances are you have your cell phone all the time. Please use this website as a quick reference to find a good camera phone. We list current models available by four wireless carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.
Click on your wireless carrier. You see a list of camera phone models by brand. To save you time, you see five features related to cameras only: resolutions; flash; video; memory card slot; and internal memory. Note: the memory capacity is important because better camera phones provide higher resolutions that take up more memory.
Listed Features
image quality (MP / megapixels)
The higher the number is, the better the image quality is. A majority of camera phones provide lower resolutions than digital cameras at present.
camera flash
Yes or No
video recording
Yes or No
memory card
If the model has a memory card slot, you will see the card type and the maximum memory capacity (if available) in parentheses. If it has no memory card slot, you will see “No.”
With a memory card, you can significantly expand your memory capacity. Internal memory is usually shared with music, pictures, and other digital files. If your camera phone’s internal memory is 5MB, you can only store a few pictures and a few songs.
internal memory
If there is a memory card slot, you can almost ignore the internal memory information. You can easily expand the memory with a removable memory card. The definition of internal memory may slightly differ depending on the source. Possibly called user memory or shared memory, internal memory often indicates memory space available for storage for any data including music. Please don't assume you can use the entire internal memory for photos.
Notes
Digital zoom is unlisted. The reason is, for cameras, not digital zoom but optical zoom matters. Digital zoom only enlarges the photo partly, crops the rest, and drops the quality. Today, only few camera phone models come with optical zoom. We will have a designated tab for those models on our next update. Please check back early December.
Current models account for those models found at each wireless carrier’s website as of the researched date on the top of its page. Every two months or so, wireless carriers discontinue a few old models and introduce a few new ones.
Please use this website as a quick reference to narrow down your selection. Please further research the selected models. You can find a few sites describing detailed testing results on most camera phones.
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