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Dial and shoot
What to look for in a camera phone.
Looking to trade in your phone and digital camera for one device that can handle both chores? You probably should wait for the technology to improve. Camera phones don’t yet come close in image quality or available features to what your stand-alone camera can accomplish. But there are some work-related tasks you can adequately tackle with a camera phone, not to mention have a lot of fun.
If you plan to post your camera-phone pics on the Web, get a model with the highest possible resolution. Right now, 640 x 480 is as good as it gets.
One-megapixel models should be arriving in stores by the end of the year, which should produce decent-quality small prints.
Consider also what you will do once you take a photo. If you think you will store dozens of shots rather than shoot and send (or download to a computer), you should find a model with plenty of memory or a removable multimedia card.
Also look into the service-plan options for sending photos. The basic options are to pay a fee for each image you send (or receive) or subscribe to a monthly service that gives you a package price on multiple images.
Finally, make sure to try out a camera phone before you select one. You will find wide variations on how you hold and use them, displays, viewfinder systems, and other key aspects of taking pictures. Don’t lose sight that this is your phone, too. If it doesn’t meet your dialing, talking, and listening needs, it doesn’t matter how much you like the camera.
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