02-24-2004, 01:00 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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TI Unveils Multimedia Phone Chips That Could Rival Digicam Quality
"Texas Instruments is expected to announce the newest generation of its OMAP processors at the 3GSM World Congress, with improvements in the quality of still images and video on cell phones, the company said. The OMAP2420 comes with a video accelerator that will allow users to play more advanced video games and take up to 4-megapixel digital pictures. The image quality on most camera phones is quite poor, but newer phones based on this chip will be able to take pictures as well as many low-end stand-alone digital cameras...Users will also be able to link their cell phones to their televisions if they're using the 2420, Kerslake said. The chip has support for TV-out links, so videos or still images captured on the phone can be played back on a much larger screen."
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02-24-2004, 05:50 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 238
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I would think the only problem with taking 4 megapixel images with sensors that small (compared to the smaller ones used in prosumer digital cameras vs. the APS-sized ones used in dSLR's) is the amount of noise that ends up on the final picture. With the ever increasing megapixel race, the new Sony F828 didn't exactly deliever with it's new 8 megapixel, 1/1.8" sensor size.
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