That weird blog dedicated to busting open the Sony Ericsson Neo is still delivering the goods, with a new series of videos showing the unannounced Android phone’s camera abilities.
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On a hair-raising morning commute, Slumdog Millionaire‘s Dev Patel encounters a gun-toting traffic cop, ninja bankers and… Chuck Bass. It’s eight minutes of slick, silly fun, and it was shot entirely on a smartphone.
Sure, it’s not all about the megapixels, but Sony’s just trumped Panasonic’s Lumix phone with their 16.41MP Exmor R-based CMOS sensor – seen in a phone near you shortly.
They may not sell many mobile phones outside Japan, but considering how well respected Panasonic’s Lumix camera range is around the world, a “Lumix phone” would actually do very well. Given the OS matches up to the phone’s awesome-sounding specs, of course.
With a few lines of code, it seems, at least one of the specs of the next iPhone is settled. According to video capture presets tucked away in the iPhone SDK, 720p recording is in the cards.
I Can’t Keep It In My Pants
On the day of the San Francisco Giants World Series parade, I headed to the corner of California and Montgomery where I was sure I had a good vantage to watch the players roll by in their rubber-wheeled cable cars.