(The light on the Panasonic's lid even illuminates in bright blue, green or orange depending on the caller's social importance, assuming you've taken a moment to color-code your phonebook.) And all but the Nokia offer a secondary, outside screen that shows you who's calling before you even open the clamshell. All but the Samsung let you dial by voice (''Call Chris'') - an indispensable feature if you drive. They offer big, bright color screens features like caller ID, conference calling and speed dialing crude, very slow access to e-mail and the Web phone-to-phone text messaging about four hours of talk time and a built-in calendar-travel alarm. All of them are top-of-the-line phones with top-of-the-line prices.
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The Panasonic and Sanyo even let you assign a mug shot to each person in your phone book, so that you can literally see who's calling.ĭon't expect to get one of these phones free when you sign up for cell service. It's just a blast snapping little bits of your life, sights and scenes and faces and friends, and firing them off to other people. As cellcams have shown in Japan, where they're a hypersonic hit, the bigger selling point is the fun factor. Being able to snap a photo and send it instantly is invaluable when you're shopping and want your spouse's opinion on a certain house, antique or puppy it's a form of telepresence for insurance companies and newly minted grandparents it even offers a shot at capturing historic moments to sell to the evening news.īut forget about utility. Resolution isn't everything just ask the patrons of 50,000 mall photo booths. 02-megapixel digital camera.Įven so, a cellcam is just about the most satisfying piece of pocket paraphernalia since the bifold wallet. At the other extreme, the Panasonic's 132-by-176-pixel photos are so tiny, they're appropriate only for sending to other phones' screens and attaching to e-mail messages. (You can see sample photographs at The best resolution you can get in a phone is 640 by 480 pixels (on the Sanyo and Nokia), not even enough dots for a 4-by-6-inch print. When it comes to resolution and quality, no cellcam can replace a ''real'' digital camera. The new Nokia 3650 (from T-Mobile or AT&T Wireless), Panasonic GU87 (AT&T Wireless), Samsung V205 (T-Mobile) and Sanyo 5300 (Sprint PCS) are no larger than the sleek, silvery, status-conscious cellphones they replace - but each has a built-in lens and shutter button for photos on the fly.īefore you read on, however, an expectation-setting moment is in order. In the earliest days of cellcams (that is, six months ago), the lens was a snap-on piece that begged to get broken off, left behind or lost in your battery drawer. Of all the combination gadgets that have come and gone, this is one that makes sense - after all, cameras and cellphones are both gizmos that don't do you much good unless you carry them at all times. In that world, one investment strategy would be to put your money in cellphones with built-in cameras nearly two million of them are expected to fly off American shelves this year, and they show enormous promise. And in a twist, the stock market as an investment concept hit an all-time low of 43 cents a share in late-afternoon trading.'' ''Public smoking is down another two points today, doggie raincoats are up an eighth and mindless pursuit of wealth continues its decline to close at $1.24.
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WOULDN'T it be cool if you could buy stock in absolutely anything? ''The broader celebrity market was up, buoyed by a rise in shares of TV war journalists and Nicole Kidman,'' you'd hear on the radio.