My New Phone Has A Camera

[charloween]

See? I can take pictures on my phone! There's even a little button on the side that's like a shortcut to the picture-taking menu! I'm sure the novelty will fade in a week or so, but until then I'm having lots of fun.

Comments

[guitarromantic.livejournal.com]

Is it a Razr? Mine has the side-button-camera thing.

I love how picture phones are still a novelty across the pond... welcome to 2003! Heh.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

No, it's a Samsung m510 (https://www.virginmobile.ca/site/buyaphoneDetails.do;jsessionid=HGLHWmXqLPQnGFrB6ZK0L6pdDvJFQcgPLn5ZYp8CDbKFPR8kBlwH!510423065?phoneId=10-00047&sType=w). Virgin Mobile FTW! I've never had a crush on a corporation's print design team, but Virgin Mobile's "welcome to the family" literature is so very excellent. And their prices rock. Win all around.

welcome to 2003! Heh.

Heh... yeah. We were joking about that at work yesterday. My shiny new phone (can you tell I'm excited!) can also do, like, video calling or something, but honestly... that's so much less exciting than a camera.

Sure, I can now record vlog entries and directly post them on my ning.com account. But when will I ever do that? Not in the near future, anyway.

I have an objection to actually paying for a phone, so I've always been a few years behind the times. I feel like a caveman who's just discovered television. :D

[guitarromantic.livejournal.com]

Haaha, awww. I can post photos from my phone directly onto LJ (man, so can you now, probably - paid account?)

I have video calls too but they've overrated and I only ever use it for the sheer novelty (usually in the same room as whoever I'm speaking to).

And yeah, I was still using my old Nokia from 2002 until I got bought my current model for Christmas '06.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. No paid account for me. Tee hee. Hells no.

I think the only way I'd use a video call is if someone was in the same room. Otherwise, it's a pretty stupid novelty feature.

Good ol' Nokia. Was it one of those silver bar phones? I think I still have my old Nokia around somewhere...

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

DUDE.

The picture, it is so clear!

My phone... looks like a taser. That's all I've got.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

It's all in the lighting. Any camera can take a good picture if the lighting works out.

My phone is sexxy. I've never had a sexxy phone before. And! It plays music and has a decent speaker. I made the phone play Radiohead for me while I made a sandwich! I was all: hey, phone, play Radiohead for me. It was all: yeah. I can do that.

I love gadgets.

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

This is true-- lighting helps. But the resolution size of the picture! I'm thinking of grainy little 150x150 pixel pictures that the Parents' phones take. That? Is all big and pretty!

YAY for sexxy phone.

And it's 'cause gadgets are awesome. Speaking of-- I was looking for an external hard drive the other day (since my computer is kinda tired of running on 1 gig of free space) and ran across a drive that was 2 terabytes. Craziness.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Fair point. I think I can actually get a better resolution... *pokes phone* Er, or something.

(CBC has this science fiction (http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=Canadia) radio drama and it's great. They use Star Trek sound effects. The first officer challenges that there's no way their ship could have caught up to the rest of the fleet 'cause if they're all traveling at light speed, none of them can travel faster than that speed. She asks the captain how that could be possible, and the computer pipes up with, "Ingenuity?" *snerk*)

I got a 500GB external drive last weekend. I was thinking about terabyte drives, but at the rate technology prices drop, the terabyte drive might be like $100 by next year.

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

I had my eye on a 320 gig drive made by SimpleTech that's currently at $99 USD. I don't know a whole lot about the various brands that I've seen, so I've been poking around online to find reviews. What did you end up going for?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I ended up buying a Western Digital 500gb internal drive from Best Buy ($98, even though it scanned at $169; I pointed out you can't have a bucket of drives marked at one price and not have them scan properly...) and then grabbing an enclosure (SafeStore?) from one of those tech liquidators. DIY magic. The only complicated part is having to go into the drive manager and partitioning the drive and assigning a drive letter. And that's only complicated if you forget how to do it. *pats drive*

[stickchick596.livejournal.com]

What she said. That's some amazing picture -- lighting or no!

And I just noticed your icon and it has made me giggle lots and lots.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Tee hee, thanks! (I maintain it was dumb luck on my part...)

Which icon? This icon?

[(Anonymous)]

No, no -- the original Jane icon with the post.

[skivee.livejournal.com]

That looks almost, but not quite, like a real picture!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

The hardest part was holding the phone still so the imps could get the shading right.

[skivee.livejournal.com]

Lovely color

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Ja. Well. You just have to give the imps the right incentive!

[squonk.livejournal.com]

As others have said, that's a pretty darned good picture for a cell!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. I think more than anything I got really lucky to have great lighting conditions. (Srsly though - camera phone? Is my catnip.)

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

My phone, she is a Samsung too! Hee.

Also, re: the play - what time were you thinking of going? I'll be back in Markham this weekend, but I'll have Stella with me, so after seeing the play with you in the City, I'd have to drive back up to Markham to get her then back to Guelph where I will finally be able to sleep in my new bed.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

*high five for Samsung!*

The performance on Sunday is at 5:15pm, which may or may no give you the time to collect the kitty and be on your way. It looks like the play runs about 75 minutes.

How is your new bed? I'll bet it's lovely.

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

It is absolutely amazing. *loves the new bed so hard and looks at parent's couch disdainfully*

My grandparents are here because they are leaving in a couple of hours (three-ish) to go to the airport with my mom to go to Barbados. I gave my grandpa my bed.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

I always thought that having a camera in a phone was kind of silly... but then I got my Razr and I realised just how necessary it is. ;P

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I know, eh? I'm sure the novelty will wear off eventually...

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

Oh wow........looks like i'm the last one without a camera on their cell phone :P

I'm amazed at the quality of the picture. Most of the time you can barely make out a face..but this one....you can see the oil stains on the floor!