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Casio's 5-Megapixel Exilim Cameraphone Is Army-Tough

Casio just released a cameraphone that's likely to dodge the criticisms we've leveled at other camera/phone convergence devices. That's because rather than pointlessly add high megapixels to it, Casio put some really good stuff ...READ»

Samsung Gets Compact Cameras Right: With a DSLR's Sensor

I've railed against the pointless war for more megapixels in digital cameras before: photography is about how best to capture light and including more densely-packed, tinier pixels just doesn't make sense. It seems that someone in ...READ»

Cameraphones to Get Physical Shutter, Take Better Snaps

I ranted about the current trend toward ever-more megapixels in the cameras of smart phones the other day. But the other optics in those teeny tiny cameras are also worth a mention--they're pretty universally bad. And now a company ...READ»

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Sony Joins the 12-Megapixel Cameraphone Bandwagon

Samsung's 12-megapixel camera-equipped smartphone was supposedly the only bloated-sensor cellphone rumored before Mobile World Congress, but it looks like Sony Ericsson wants to join the party too. It just unveiled the Idou, which ...READ»

Samsung Memoir: 8MP Camera, Touchscreen Smartphone Mashup

Although the megapixel war continues, stupidly, in cameraphones, Samsung's Memoir gets a pass. It's a sweet mashup of an 8-megapixel camera married to a cellphone with a huge touchscreen. The camera module behaves much like a ...READ»

The Megapixel War's New Frontier: Cameraphones

There's a rumor going around about an upcoming cellphone from Samsung, due to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, that possesses a 12-megapixel camera. Let's all give Samsung a round of applause for opening the megapixel war's ...READ»