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worth it????????
sdeep
Jul 20, 2004, 10:20 PM
is the motorola v710 really worth the 250 bucks????????? i know i'm going to buy it because i dont have a choice. can u guys give me some ino on the motorola v710 that doesn't involve anything bad about it because almost every thread involves something bad about the phone...
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It has a pritty good camera (not just one of those crappy VGA cell-phone cameras.) And it can playback mp3s... and lots of more features. 😁
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The camera is high res. But that doesn't necessarily mean high quality.
The phone will have a CMOS sensor like most phones instead of a CCD (correct me if i'm wrong). This means that the quality will technically be the same as other phones.
I wish that for $250, they'd have a CCD... you can't have everything, I suppose.
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whats the diff between cmos and ccd?
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I don't really know. Search previous posts for more info. The important part is that a CCD (used in all digital cameras today) provides a higher quality image.
Phones with CCD's (ex. VX8000) are expected to be out in the December time frame. But, as always, the VX8000 has no bluetooth...
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There was a post on the VX8000 forum that the VX8000 was possibly going to be released as early as September 15th. I too thought that it was projected to be out in December. I guess I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's any truth to this, because if there is, it could change my whole thinking about getting the V710.
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Actually, Canon digital SLR cameras use CMOS sensors, and they were able to get extrememly good quality out of them. They did a little tinkering, and it pays off for them because CMOS sensors are much cheaper to produce. I suspect that phone cameras use them because they are also easier to produce in a smaller size. CMOS, by the way, stands for complementary metal oxide semiconductor, and CCD stands for charge coupled device. Historically CCD's have provided better image quality at the expense of size and power consumption, but the amount of research devoted to CMOS sensors has driven the quality forward dramatically. However, you will find them in camera phones primarily because they draw less power and are more easily produced in smal...
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