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Are you sure that all the operators are the same? I think there has to be at least some competition out there
Who are you kidding? The American carriers charge for everything. "You don't have to accept anything from those crappy American mobile operators." And how is that? By not having a phone at all? I'm happy for you that you get everything for free. We don't. That was my point.
This is good news, except for one thing. The greedy mobile phone companies go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make sure that the photos you take on your phone can only be moved off the handset through THEM for a FEE. They view the cameras as a "profit center", just as they do ring tones. My current phone is a VX-6100 and I was specificially told by several Verizon representitves that there was "no way" to get the pictures off the phone other than through them ("over the air") at either 25 cents per pic, or unlimited via a $5/month plan. "No, you can't use the data cable for that." Well, they were full of "it" because you CAN move the pictures off the phone through the data cable using an open source program (BITPIM). In fact, you can also upload photos TO the phone (wallpaper) and upload ring tones. Of course this also shoots a hole in their billion dollar ring tone market at $2 a tone (who pays for this? answer: everyone). Expect the newer hi-res phones to be the same way. It will be up to smart programmers to figure out that the phone company is not required to get at the pictures. The mobile phone companies suck.
Nokia N90 already sports 2 megapixels camera module with improved Carl Zeiss optics. It's not a cheap digi cam quality yet but we're getting towards the goal by manufacturers also focusing on optics, not only megapixels.
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n90-review-44.p
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To previous poster.
Mobile phone companies don't generally suck, but yours seems to.
If you have to pay for getting your pics off the phone, please go get another provider for God's sake!
No one in this world pays for getting pictures out of phone! Expect Americans? But the state of American mobile phone market is a joke anyway, so you can expect anything...
Elsewhere, people just use bluetooth on their phone or cable to down/upload images and similar content.
You don't have to accept anything from those crappy American mobile operators.
