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Best Camera Cell Phones - Taking Pictures with your cell phones built in cameraTwo of the most popular digital products these last few years have been cell phones and digital cameras (OK, MP3 players are in there somewhere as well..). Cell phones have been pretty small for a long time now, easy to throw into your pocket, with the Motorola RAZR being the latest slim phone craze. Digital cameras also have been shrinking, with tiny models like the Digital Elph or the Casio Exilim no bigger than a tin of Altoids. The logical next step was to combine a tiny digital camera with a tiny cell phone - why carry two devices when you could carry one?
Cell Phone Cameras - good and badThe biggest problem with cell phone cameras is picture quality. To be honest, it's tough to pack a high quality digital camera into a tiny phone. The sacrifice is in image quality and optics. You get low quality lenses and imaging chips, and you get images that are less than 1MP, which is generally worse than even the very earliest digital cameras of 5 years ago. So you get pictures that are OK for fun use and quick shots of events or friends, but certainly nothing you would print and hang on the wall, or want to display on a high resolution computer screen. You get grainy images that are usually dark, and resolution is poor.How to copy camera phone picture to web? Moving pictures from your cell phone camera to your PCOne of the problems with taking pictures with your cell phone camera is what to do with them afterwards. You can send them to other wireless phone users so they can view them; you can use them as backgrounds or startup pictures on your phone, and even associate them with CallerID so you see a persons picture when they call. But how do you get them off the cell phone and onto your PC or online for viewing? If your camera and your PC are both BlueTooth enabled, then you can wirelessly transfer the photos over to your PC. If your camera supports USB connectivity, you can connect to your PC via a USB cable and transer the images that way. You can also email the pictures to yourself using the phones email/internet functions, then pickup the email on your desktop computer and grab the photo attachment that way. Some digital camera phones also come with flash memory cards (SD Data) allowing you store images or other data on the removable memory cards, then move those memory cards over to a card-reader on your PC and copy the files over that way.Another option is to upload your camera phone photos to a website like Yahoo Mobile - they will show up in your Yahoo Photos account, where you can browse them, download them, and share them with friends. You upload them by sending them as email attachments to a particular address Yahoo will give you - like YOU@photos.yahoo.com. Top-rates camera phones - Most PopularThe Samsung MM-A800 is another popular camera phone with a 260,000 color display and a 2 MP camera, weighing just over 4 ounces. The Sanyo 5600 is also a big seller, with a small size and decent camera. The Motorola E815 has a 1.3 MP camera built in, and has an MP3 player, speaker phone and more. HOT PICK! The Sony Ericsson S710A has one of the better quality cameras we've seen in a nice swivel phone design. Motorola V188 is offered by T Mobile, and also includes a better than average camera. Overall, the Nokia N90 (available soon) looks like the winner in the best camera phone competition (will be available from Cingular and T Mobile). It has a 2MP camera and plays back mpeg-4 video. It will be expensive - around $900 before activation.
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