Is cell phone image quality always this bad!?

Bill R wrote:

> A lot of the camera phones in the marketplace (especially in the U.S.)
> are very low resolution. There are some that are 1.3MP and they take
> fairly good quality pictures.

Not any more. For example, my Motorola PEBL maxes out at 640x480 resolution.

I don't think there are a lot of phones yet at that resolution, but they're
out there.

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Somewhere around Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:58:21 GMT, while reading alt.cellular,
I think I thought I saw this post from Steven O. <[email protected]>:

>After using the same cell phone for eight years -- something with a
>cheap LED display, and a battery that lasted about 1/2 hour -- I
>finally upgraded to a new cell phone. Lighter, lasts longer, more
>memory, and I thought it was pretty cool that it could take photos,
>which might come in handy some time.
>
>It's an LG phone, I forget the model number, but even when I set it to
>the highest resolution and image quality, the photos are essentially
>junk -- much too low resolution, and too blurry, to be useful for any
>real uses. (I thought like, if I'm at an accident scene, I could take
>pictures or something. Forget it....)
>
>Is this typical of most cell phones with cameras these days, or at
>least typical of the ones that have moderate costs, or did the
>salesman stick me with a lemon!?
>
Does the phone have settings for other camera functions, such as exposure,
lighting, etc? Sometimes taking the extra time to set the exposure rather
than using auto makes it better.

I don't use mine for normal photos. Sometimes I'll take a picture of where
I parked in a big lot, or a street sign so I'll remember an intersection
when I'm sightseeing in a strange place. I've heard other ideas like
snapping a sign with store hours so you can remember later, etc.

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