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To: Steve 667 who wrote (25332)	3/12/2004 10:45:29 AM
From: Andre Williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

LOL Andre has a good point. Is this going to be a flash driver? When I said... What about the need for flash? I was actually talking about flash (light) for picture taking. The biggest shortcoming of my Coolpix 800 (probably regarded as a dinosaur nowadays) is that the flash ain't good for squat. Flash sucks power, and it's just another reason that a quality camera is incompatible with a cell phone. Do I really want to worry whether my phone juice will run out if I take one more picture? Long-term, I think prospects for removable flash memory usage in cell phones are good because there's data that users will want to move from one phone to another. It may take a while for standards to set in, though, so that you could move it from one phone to the next. And, I suppose, to those for whom money is a small object and having a decent camera phone is important, well I could see why they'd appreciate removable flash storage but I think this is just a niche, not a mass market opportunity - at least for the next 5 years or so. Andre

To: Steve 667 who wrote (25332)	3/12/2004 3:31:08 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Re: Camera phones. I wouldn't want one with a resolution less than 1.3 mp. However, it would be useful to have a handset with a slot for, say, an SD or miniSD, and then a camera using one of those cards. You could insert the camera card in the handset and send a higher resolution image. At one point, Kodak was working on a camera that would take digital photos and then transmit the images to a server. I don't know if they are reviving that idea, but it's got a lot of possibilities, particularly because some of the data optimized systems now available (Verizon in Washington, DC and San Diego) would allow transmission of a fairly large image file in a short time. So the answer may well be a camera with a cell phone modem, not a camera phone at all. But then, many people are satisfied with lower quality images and might prefer the combination camera and phone. Art