Sharp is unveiling a mobile phone that comes closer than any other phone to duplicating the functions of a standard digital still camera. The V602SH handset will go on sale in Japan in late June this year through Vodafone.
It combines a 2-megapixel CCD image sensor and optical zoom. A 2X optical zoom can be realised with a single button push when the phone is in digital camera mode, while a second push returns it to no zoom. Until now camera-equipped mobile phones have featured either a digital zoom or no zoom function at all. The V602SH
includes a digital, as well as an optical, zoom function. Optical zoom requires the position of the lens to move, and that makes it more difficult to fit into small devices such as mobile phones where space is limited.
Sharp installed the camera module behind the hinge on the lower half of the clamshell phone, to make use of the extra space at the thickest part of the case. Plans for an Irish launch by Vodafone have yet to be revealed.
28/06/04
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