Verizon Incredible Camera Improves the Picture
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The arrival of Verizon's (VZ) Incredible phone not only manages to one-up AT&T's (T) rival Apple (AAPL) iPhone in a few key areas, it also promises to set off a camera-driven arms race in the smartphone sector.
The HTC-made, Google (GOOG) Android-powered Verizon Incredible features an 8-megapixel, auto-focusing camera -- one of the first to really turn picture taking into more than an afterthought. (The image of the lacrosse game below was shot with an Incredible.)
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For six years, low-quality cameras have been a common feature on most phones. The thrill of being able to snap shots anywhere, at any time, was always numbed by the resulting abundance of low-quality pictures.
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The step up in quality of the Verizon Incredible camera has raised the bar for the rest of the underpowered camera phone makers, and, more than before, it threatens to pull in would-be camera buyers who no longer need separate devices. On paper, the Verizon Incredible camera is far superior to the current 3.2-megapixel Apple iPhone 3GS and its upcoming 5-megapixel successor. And the shots, especially in daylight conditions, rival those of many compact cameras. The Verizon Incredible, while huge, is one of the first in a growing selection of big camera superphones coming this year. Next month -- May 12 to put a date on it -- Sprint (S) will launch the HTC EVO, a WiMax 4G phone that has the same 8-megapixel camera as the Incredible. Later this summer, the delayed debut of the Sony (SNE) Ericsson (ERIC) Xperia X10 is expected. The X10 features Sony's 8.1-megapixel camera. Later this fall, Nokia (NOK) promises to up the ante significantly with a 12-megapixel camera on its N8 touchscreen phone. And, as TheStreet first reported, Apple will upgrade to the Sony 8-megapixel camera on its 2011 iPhone -- potentially the Verizon iPhone. Read on for more about these new camera phones.|
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