For crying out loud, am I the only person that thinks any camera phone that says "flash" should be actual Real Xenon flash? I'm sick of every flippin time I ask a customer service representative or retail sales person, they have no clue when I say Xenon. Who buys a 8.0 megapixel camera phone when your only hope for any kind of flash is an LED light? Nobody takes pictures indoors anymore? or in front of a sunset? or perhaps just anywhere that happens to not have a accessive amount of powerful light; and even then would you happen to hold your camera still enough for the image not to blur a bit? Oh! perhaps you bought an 8.0 megapixel camera phone with "image stabalization" or some sort of anti-shake technology. Well then, that fixes the blurr during highly lit picture taking. but what about taking pictures with loved ones in restaurants, clubs, karaoke, downtown or anywhere at night or a dimly lit environment, or any angle in which a brighter light shows behind you. If a cell phone lists itself as a "camera phone" and does not specify weather it has LED or Xenon flash, what's the point? Why would anybody want to buy a "CAMERA phone" if they can only take pictures before sunset? better take a day off work so you can catch the sun, because you did spend half a GRAND on a darn phone so you could take pictures with it.
Can somebody please explain to me why I'm the only person with this concern? Or perhaps others like me are out there with nowhere to cry?
My phone is dying. Every action I make with my phone now takes a 1,2,3,4 before anything happens. This causes the biggest headache when trying to call or text. I need a new phone. There ARE phones on the market with Xenon flash, but can I find one with a Qwerty keyboard? Since everyone has evidently migrated to the texting genre and won't answer just calls anymore, I must have the ability to get my point across with this communication as fast as possible, i.e. qwerty keys.
You all must think me to be an angry individual at this point, but I must insist that my passion for my opinion is not without reason. Who buys a cell phone these days and is truely happy with their decision? Or perhaps you wish it just had a better camera? REAL Xenon flash? A GPS? 3G? Touchscreen fit your tastes better? A querty keypad missing from yours and must rely on numeric keypads? Maybe, if you could only play MP3s your phone would be perfect. All of these capabilities exist. Why won't one company, one phone, do it all? The phone will be pretty big? The cost will be out of most people's budget? I have a big enough pocket to fit the "allinWONDER" Give me a PSP size phone that does it all and I'll pay $1,000 U.S.D.
I'm sure I'm not the only person that doesn't want to have to walk around with 4 different things depending on what they might want at the time. I'm a man's man. I want to carry my keys, my wallet, and my, everything else in 1 gadget. Not: ipod, tomtom, canon, AND cell phone. Make it big. Make it sturdy. Give it everything. Cell phones weren't always tiny. It'll be a littler harder to lose, that's a plus. Over time they'll change shape, style, and size and eventually (hopefully) it'll be on your wrist.
Does such a thing exist? Because I can't find it. LG's Prada II maybe? or is their "flash" just an LED? The Nokia N97 looks quite promising! but is the "5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics" going to only give us half-@$$ed restaurant pictures? Somebody save me from this agony.
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nunya Posts: 16
Service Provider: T-Mobile
Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:04 pm
My wife owns the T-mobile Behold. Although it does not have the slide out key board you can turn the phone sideways and get a full query touch screen key pad for your messaging. The Samsung Memoir which has the 8 mega pixel camera does come with the Xenon flash. You are right about these camera phones coming with the Sh**** flashes. The Memoir seems to be the upgrade for the Behold, which we think is an excellent phone. I am about to buy the Memoir and the flash is playing a major part in my decision. Other than that good luck
