Just a couple of realities you are missing.
1. Believe it or not there is still a large number of people that don't have cell phones of any type.
2. Many work places forbid cell phones, so yeah even today there are people without cell phone cameras.
3. People are often of the mindset to carry and wear as little as possible when working out. Thus the cell gets left at home. Somtimes it is "accidently" left at home just to have a bit of peace for awhile.
4. Given enough storage a camera on a Nano makes a lot of sense. Especially for younger people that don't want to get tied up in cell phone contracts. Or in the case of the really young they have parents that don't want to bear that expense.
Yeah, in landscape thats where I would expect it... however I really don't see this happening.
I do see it happening. Hopefully at a very reasonable price. If implemented right it makes a lot of sense in the evolution of MP3 player. Implementation is the key and frankly I'm not impressed with what the illustration is showing us. A few minor details corrected and all would be good.
Cameras in phones have very little utility other than sharing something on the fly.
That is an excessive limitation on phone cameras in general and does not reflect common usage. For example I shot some pics on my last trip, with my iPhone and did nothing with them until I made it back to my laptop. The same could easily be done with a Nano.
Given that the nano doesn't have wifi or cellular, I really don't see any point what so ever. In the touch, I think its a natural extension. In the nano I don't really see the point.
Where you like this in school? Have you never heard of a dock or USB cable? Do you think WiFi is impossible on the Nano? One only has to open their mind slightly to see the potential here.
This is all based on the current small cameras which pretty much suck. Throw in a larger sensor, flash, auto focus, optical zoom, etc and you would be in business. Again, not something I see happening soon, or at least before the iphone/itouch gets it.
There is little doubt that modern cell phone cameras suck. But suck is relative as some of the do better than the old film formats from the past. In fact my iPhone is better than the 110 and disk cameras from the last century.
Now combine this with rumors that Apple might be using new sensor tech and the potential for an interesting camera greatly increases. If it is the back lit sensor I've heard rumors of we could end up with a very high quality camera. Well high quality with respect to a cell phone, certainly low end point and shoot.
Is this a replacement for my Nikon - nope, not at all. These cameras however are not designed nor marketed to compete against a DSLR camera.
Already in this thread I've seen people indicate that they would never use the camera nor would their spouse or kids. I say that is BS of the slickest type. I can actually see the camera driving demand as long as the implementation is right. It is an ideal marriage for people in a minimalist mode.
Dave
