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Why don’t camera phones have timers?

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, December 16th, 2006 at 10:51 AM

Timer
Now feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve yet to play with a camera phone that actually had a timer …

You know how convenient it is to set your camera to take a picture in 5, 15, or even 30 seconds?

I’m tired (well not really tired hehe) of seeing girls posting pictures of themselves in the mirror with their mobiles, why isn’t something as simple as a timer implemented?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ricky Cadden

    All Nokias from the 6682 on down the line have had self-timers. It’s just slightly hidden in the menus somewhere. What’s more interesting to note is that the N73, which is supposed to be this big picture-taking powerhouse (and it is) cannot rest on its own. Meaning none of the sides of the phone are flat, so you can’t simply set it down like a normal camera, yet it has a picture timer. So you have to prop it up against something to be able to use the timer.

  • Abhishta

    Self Timers have been there on s60 phones for ages. With s60 1st edition phones like 3650, there was a symbian app which did this. It was later incorporated as a standard feature by nokia.
    I’ve used it with the N91 a couple of times. Quite easy to use, just go to Camera, Options-> Self Timer and select the timing.

  • Ztiggi

    N90 has timer…

  • Darla

    Ricky,

    Those same issues is what brought Nokia to invent the DT-22 tripod. It supports not only the N93 but the N73, N70 and N80 as well.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Thanks for all this information guys!

  • Franklin Davis

    In fact, in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (N95, N76) there is a toolbar in the camera view, and “Self timer” is the 3rd icon down.

    N76 is cool because it’s a flat fold phone, so just angle it and it stands up perfectly.