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The Storm and the new Curve made decent headway for RIM’s cameras by getting the bump up to 3.2 megapixels, but considering we’re looking at handsets with 12 megapixel-cameras, putting a giant telescoping zoom lens on a BlackBerry just seems hilarious – even moreso for the Bold which clocks in at a meagre 2 megapixels. To be fair, the 6X zooming lens is available for many other phones (like the G1, EXPERIA and Touch HD), it’s just the mounting mechanism that’s different. That might make good manufacturing sense to use the same part over and over, but couldn’t they at least put it on a handset that’s worth the scope? C905? Renoir? Anything? Even in those cases, this thing would be pretty awkward to lug around, and it might just be simpler to carry around a point-and-shoot. Would anyone out there be willing to try this out?
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
