Sony Ericsson is taking its cameraphones very seriously. At the rate we are going we will probably have most point and shoot cameras replaced with cameraphones. We’ve seen plenty of cell phones sporting a rather good built-in camera. 5 to 8 megapixels is what we’ve seen so far and the 9 megapixel camera module is waiting to be inserted in various phone. Sony Ericsson is also rumored to launch a 12 megapixel camera sometime in 2009 so it’s not quite a surprise that the company wants to improve the features of its cameraphones.
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I clearly remember the times when I used to say that I’ll use my phone to talk to people and my camera to take pictures. I hated taking crappy pictures with a camera phone and I really hated talking into my camera since no would answer back.

In the mean time the phone-as-a-camera combination seems to be working great. Unfortunately the camera-as-a-phone isn’t working at all since it doesn’t exist. There are lots of great cameras out there but the fancier the phone these days, the better the built-in camera is.
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