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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Limpag: Nokia starts shipping 6233
By Max Limpag
Celltalk
3G PHONE. Nokia announced last week that it has started shipping the Nokia 6233, a 3G phone that would be retailing in the P25,000 to P30,000 range.
The phone (see photo), as with any modern multi-media device, plays music and video files, and sports a lot of cool applications and capabilities that have now become standard for mobile phones.
The 6233 comes with a two-megapixel camera and has a talk time of up to three hours and, get this, a standby time of up to two weeks.
MOVIE. As an indication of the video quality of the current crop of mobile phones, Italian filmmakers have shot a 90-minute movie entirely with a Nokia N90. The New Love Meetings documentary, according to the filmmakers, is the first feature film to be shot entirely with a phone.
The filmmakers interviewed 700 people across Italy on their views on love and sex. They wanted to do a modern version of the Love Meetings documentary in 1965 by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The use of a phone camera instead of a regular one, according to the filmmakers, made the interviews more intimate. They said that it led people to open up more easily. They did not have professional lighting, but filmmakers told the Associated Press that they had to use a pocket flashlight at times.
PRIMARY IMAGING DEVICE. Increasingly, cell phones have become the primary point-and-shoot cameras of people. Not only are cell phones convenient to use as a camera, their image qualities have also vastly improved recently. The current crop of camera phones live up to their label as a camera: resolution is great and controls are intuitive. Sony Ericsson, in fact, has released a line of Cybershot phones. The phones’ camera quality came to a point that they were allowed to sport the brand of Sony’s digital camera line.
In the coming years, we will see phones becoming the primary video camera for people. Some people, mostly early adopters, are using it as such right now, but only a few products have passable video taking quality.
Phone manufacturers, however, are improving the video taking capabilities of handsets and pretty soon we will see phones with capabilities of entry-level digital video cameras.
The mobile phone, as I wrote earlier, will increasingly become a converged device that will serve as our primary multi-media player, personal digital assistant, digital music player, phone camera and video camera.
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