06-03-2002, 03:33 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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New Micro-Camera for Wireless Phones and PDAs
http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/June2002/3488.htm
My wise friend Jeff McKean once said "People do things when they are cheap and easy" - if it's cheap and easy to add a camera to a Pocket PC, guess what? It will happen. This new CMOS sensor from Fujitsu is a huge step in that direction.
"Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed and is making commercially available today a CMOS color image sensor module, the MB86S02A micro-camera module, for mobile phone and PDA applications. The 110,000-pixel unit offers high sensitivity and low noise, Common Intermediate Format (CIF) compatibility, and a built-in lens in the world's smallest, lightest, and lowest-power module of its type. Mobile phones are now being offered with video communications functionality, creating a need for mobile cameras to capture video data. Demand for CMOS image sensors is expected to rise because these devices are smaller and less power-hungry than charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras. Fujitsu has responded to the growing need for this type of product by developing a micro-camera module with the world's smallest feedback noise-reduction sensor (FNRS)." Source: Mobigeeks newsletter
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06-04-2002, 03:05 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 414
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Looks like what I have in my Sony NR70V.
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06-04-2002, 09:20 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 513
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Yeah that would be cool to have integrated into a lot of PDAs to choose from (and yes, that Sony is real nice whenever I try it out at the store, heh). I think I'm gonna return my Panasonic SV-AV10 (which uses a QVGA CMOS sensor), there's just too many functions that overlap with my PPC. But I'm gonna miss the handy email-friendly photo/video recording functions... But if an XScale PPC was to integrate a lens in a streamlined and efficient design (not some unwieldy, bulbous CF head that sticks out or a huge sleeve), that would take care of it.
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