Thread: Some hands on time with Nokia's Maemo 5 Development Device
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2009-06-03 , 09:58
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#109
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
For many people a camera on a phone is good enough, but sometimes a SLR is really required for professionals.
There is a lot of gradation between those two extremes!

I imagine for some people a dedicated GPS is required.
Indeed. My current "load" is:
  • N810
  • Bluetooth GPSR (because the N810 GPS is pants, I just don't have the time to wait half an hour or more for a fix nearly every time)
  • Compact camera
  • HSPA Modem (nominally sold as a "phone")

And if I'm driving my 5-year old TomTom GO, because the Navicore^WWayfinder app is a joke (and I'm a paid licence holder). And sometimes even the SLR, although that's a different use case and I have to make an explicit decision to carry another case, so the compact ends up getting a lot more use simply by virtue of being there with me (which makes its quality or lack therof that much important).

Some consolidation of the above wouldn't hurt, so yes HSPA data is very welcome and by all means do put a proper GPS chip and navigation app in this time. But I don't see myself abandoning a perfectly good Lumix with decent controls, optics and sensor (for its size) in favour of a phone-type camera. My modem also includes a 3.2Mpixel camera but I never use it.