With the iPhone 3Gs you now have a choice – 2mp or 3mp. Either way pathetic. In 2003 the first 2 megapixel camera phones were on sale and by 2004 the first 3 megapixel cameras were selling like hotcakes. You would have thought with the release of the 3GS in 2009 Apple could have at least managed a 5 megapixel camera. With so many people depending on their phone to share their lives with friends and family this move seriously cripples the iPhone as a serious phone contender. Once again it seems Apple are hindering convergence. Strange may it be.
Video is another story: 30fps VGA video. Once again they were beaten to the punch on this one years and years ago. State of the art at the moment is HD video on an 8 megapixel camera, which is brought to us by the much prettier and more functional (it runs S60) Samsung Omnia HD.
If you’re sick of waiting for Apple to add a real camera to their iToy then you could always pick up a Fisher Price Kid Tough camera. It looks just as pretty as an iToy…I mean iPhone.
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Whilst I don’t think the iPhone camera is particularly good, it is a fool’s game to compare megapixels. The simple reason is that phone cameras have very small sensors and crappy lenses, meaning that increasing the megapixel count is going to result in excessively grainy photos.
However, it is clear the iPhone 3GS is simply playing catch up.
Agreed.
Megapixels are a fools game but the camera on the iphone. Even the 3GS is pretty poor. Plastic lens, no flash, even LED.
It’s poor for 2009 when most smart phones have proper lenses and flash. The way I see it is that Apple caters to the US market where there’s not much in the way of better devices. The rest of the world wants a phone that can replace their camera. Apple just don’t deliver.