6 Endangered Tech Species - Another out-of-touch crap from yahoo

[Rubycon]

It's very fast. The original iphone and 3G had laggy response. The 3GS was much better and the 4 is an improvement over that.

Comparing a phone to a SLR or even compact P&S is silly as mugs mentioned the best camera is the one you have with you! The fact that one can carry around something as tiny as a phone and use it like a computer and take pictures is amazing. If you NEED quality you carry an SLR with you it's that simple. The convenience of having it is worth far more than its expected shortcoming. When something happens where you NEED to take a picture you're not going to say "too bad this phone's camera is a POS why bother?"

what is the shutter delay like on these cameras? I ask b/c while my phone is admittedly shitty in comparison (samsung behold), it was originally touted as the first "true camera phone" or something like that, b/c it has 6 MP on a phone!!! well, it was the first one, anyway. Assuming most ATers already know what nonsense MP rating is, I'll move along.

the shutter delay on the camera is ~ 4 SECONDS! That's right--4 SECONDS. MP really counts for nothing when your subject is already a blur running out of frame. (try and snap a photo of a 4 year-old. ) IS isn't horrible on this one, but it isn't very good, either. The shutter delay completely bricks the camera for me.

 

[MrMatt]

great so go shoot a wedding with an iPhone and see how the bride likes the pictures

This. Who the F goes out to photograph nature, or a wedding, or a graduation...with their shitty phone camera.

 

[Ns1]

This. Who the F goes out to photograph nature, or a wedding, or a graduation...with their shitty phone camera.

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5 days with DSLR and 365 days with iPhone camera


srsly, is this shit so hard for you guys to understand?

MOST OF THE TIME the phone camera will suffice. SOMETIMES it will not.

how many fucking weddings/graduations do you guys go to?

on a related note, last time I was at a wedding I was on my iPhone posting to ATOT, while taking pictures (with said phone) of the mexican chick singing in vietnamese and posted that shit directly to facebook.

do THAT with your dslr.

 

[Crono]

This is why I visit AnandTech for intelligent tech news.

(you know, the main site... we do have one)

 

[Cogman]

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5 days with DSLR and 365 days with iPhone camera


srsly, is this shit so hard for you guys to understand?

MOST OF THE TIME the phone camera will suffice. SOMETIMES it will not.

how many fucking weddings/graduations do you guys go to?

on a related note, last time I was at a wedding I was on my iPhone posting to ATOT, while taking pictures (with said phone) of the mexican chick singing in vietnamese and posted that shit directly to facebook.

do THAT with your dslr.

Weddings? Pshh. A better question is how many PICTURES do you take a year. I take about 1, maybe 2 per year.

 

[Zargon]

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5 days with DSLR and 365 days with iPhone camera


srsly, is this shit so hard for you guys to understand?

MOST OF THE TIME the phone camera will suffice. SOMETIMES it will not.

how many fucking weddings/graduations do you guys go to?

on a related note, last time I was at a wedding I was on my iPhone posting to ATOT, while taking pictures (with said phone) of the mexican chick singing in vietnamese and posted that shit directly to facebook.

do THAT with your dslr.

exactly

sometimes its not sufficient so its not going to make the Digital P&S extinct.

I easily take 10 times as many pics/year with my powershot than my cell phone

 

[Numenorean]

1 device > 2 devices > 2 devices + accessories

If the one device cannot take an acceptable photo (like the iPhone), then it is useless to me as a camera for anything more than a snapshot type thing.

 

[fire400]

The netbook is popular and won't be replaced by the iPad. (at least not any time soon)

Pretty soon when they bleed out of the 45nm Atoms and mainstream Core 2 Duo's (or similar speed) into the sub $300 portable laptops with cheap 500GB 7200rpm hard drives or much cheaper 20GB/40GB SSD's.

Tell me people won't buy this because it will be snappier as hell compared to the garbage netbooks that're commonly sold at Target/Walmart/Office tech stores.

 

[AMDZen]

This language may be overlooked in OT or P&N but not in the tech forums. Continuing in these attacks will earn you a vacation.
Stop it immediately.


esquared
Anandtech Administrator

This is OT.

 

[pmv]

Smart phones replacing consoles is, as everyone has said, a ridiculous idea. Even if they develop in such a way that you can plug them into the TV and play on a decent size screen a larger console is going to have way more processing power, it'll be an age before smart phones are powerful enough that you couldn't do something better with more.

There will always be a market for proper SLRs with decent lenses for serious photography, but phone cameras will presumably be what the Instamatic used to be, the mass-market choice.

GPS devices will die out in Darwinian fashion, as their owners die out due to dumbly following everything their device tells them instead of using their common sense and their own eyes. One day there'll be a disastrous computer glitch that puts a road in the wrong place and half the population will obediently drive straight into the sea.

 

[oogabooga]

If the one device cannot take an acceptable photo (like the iPhone), then it is useless to me as a camera for anything more than a snapshot type thing.

article is just horribly generalized.

The iPhone will take an acceptable photo for most people in most situations. That said - I don't see the digital camera will be going anywhere anytime soon. Or the GPS, or the netbook, or the e-reader, etc...

 

[zerocool84]

article is just horribly generalized.

The iPhone will take an acceptable photo for most people in most situations. That said - I don't see the digital camera will be going anywhere anytime soon. Or the GPS, or the netbook, or the e-reader, etc...

Yea some people act like it's so much better than a separate camera. For a camera phone it's good but that's it.

 

[PliotronX]

He omitted #7: the flashlight. When a smart phone's backlight will brighten your path, what need is there for a flashlight?

GPS devices will die out in Darwinian fashion, as their owners die out due to dumbly following everything their device tells them instead of using their common sense and their own eyes. One day there'll be a disastrous computer glitch that puts a road in the wrong place and half the population will obediently drive straight into the sea.

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