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[remyarteaga]

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Remy

[VHMP01]

Please, there are 12.1 Megapixel cameras phones already! No wonder the author is not convinced, it is more like not up to date!

[davejoh]

@VHMP01: Unfortunately, packing 12 megapixels into a cell phone is going to make the image worse, not better.

[VHMP01]

My wife had a Sony-Ericsson with 3.2 Megapixels for the last 3 years, and it took great quality photos. As it run off, we got a Samsung with 8.1 Megapixels, which I must admit, is higher pixels but not overall photo quality. Now we are looking forward for Sony-Ericsson again with Satio: 12.1 Megapixels, with TV and FM tunning, plus all the usual features from them.

http://www.sonyerics...lc=en&cc=global

They take pictures as good as any `Stand-Alone? camera. May be not a Professional one, but then again, you are not carrying around more widgets and accessories for them. Simplicity is great.

[Quark92]

hi im new and im happy to join this community

and excuse me for ask but why why packing 12 megapixels camera into cell phone will make the image worse?

[davejoh]

@quark92: The image sensor in cell phones is very small. The more sensor sites (pixels) you put in the seame area, the closer together they get. That results in noisy, low quality images. All other things being equal, you'll get better image quality from a 3 megapixel camera phone than a 12 megapixel camera phone.

[VHMP01]

That is ridiculous, I have prove, and have check this over and over in Photoshop CS3, that a Sony-Ericsson with 3.2 Megapixels shots are great quality and probably uses 16 million colors. Now a Samsung with 8 Megapixels is an improvement in Megapixels no doubt, but maybe uses less than 16 million colors so overall quality of shoots is not much better. So a Sony Ericsson with 12.1 Megapixels won?t be anything like a crappy 3.2 phone with few colors because its packed in same area? like technology hasn?t advance every day, a few years ago you couldn?t have 3.2 Megapixels in a Pro Camera.

Stop covering for iphone in this matter please.

[VHMP01]

Even the lenses of the Sony Ericsson Satio (12.1 Megapixels) are not the same area as Pre or iphone little crappy camera.

http://www.sonyerics...lc=en&cc=global