On Camera Phones
This weekend, Kevin and I upgraded our phones. About four years ago, we decided to join the cell phone crowd following a medical emergency with my dad. Before that, we had ditched our cell phones for about three years. The cell-free years were nice, we will admit that. But we are in the here-and-now again 
Anyway… back to the phone upgrade. Kevin wanted a phone with a camera (also wanted one that is Bluetooth enabled, but the one Verizon had was spendy), and I wanted a flip phone. So we found a buy-one-get-one-free that we both liked (Verizon’s LG VX6000. click here for a review ). I wish it had preloaded games… I like being able to play a cheesy game while waiting to pass the time on occasion but if I want games, I have to pay. Oh well. And ringers! Sheesh… isn’t there a NORMAL ringer out there anymore? ok, what’s normal? I don’t know, but it seems that my phone has anything but Today I did purchase a ringtone (The Great Escape), it’s from a war movie of the same name… and it was one of my dad’s favorites. Anyway, I liked the chipper, almost humor-filled tone of it, and it didn’t sound “tinny” like so many of the tones are. Every time I hear the song, I can see James Garner’s face Little childhood memories.
Back to the camera part… I took a pic of Daniel on Saturday and today, quick snapshots. I haven’t played with it enough to get an idea if the color and quality is typical. Not bad shots, but Daniel does look pretty yellow in the second image. Neither have been retouched, so you can get an idea of what a camera phone image looks like. I did, however rotate the second image. First one was taken on Saturday in the late afternoon, second one was taken today at about noon. Seems to have focused on the front of his car seat… perhaps I just need to become a better photographer?
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Our son Chris got a camera phone a couple of years ago. After never sending us pictures of his family with the digital we had given him–his reasoning being that he didn’t like the quality of digital pictures–he started sending us these pictures from the phone. Two inch square (more or less) and on my 17 inch monitor there they were–two inches and you couldn’t enlarge them.
I commented on that once, and after that he sent one with this message. “We went to the park and Masha played football with the boys. She is the pink dot.”
Not long after that he quit sending us pictures. Maybe the phone broke. Maybe he lost it. Who knows? Maybe he got another toy that distracted him.
Hopefully your camera phone will be more useful than his. Two years can be a great deal in the improvement of tech stuff.
Kathy
LOL!! That’s hilarious about “the pink dot”! When clicking on the images above, you will get the full version view–not resized/retouched–as sent from my phone. Not too bad. Definitely not the quality I get from my digital camera (or Kevin’s even better camera), but I guess it’s nice for those quickie shots.
I took a few pictures last night of Daniel at The Little Gym, where he is farther away. Though, he didn’t look like a “dot”, the quality was definitely not as good. I should post one to get an idea of the quality (from when the subject is further away).
Overall, I like the phone better than my Kycera. The flip phone style seems to “snuggle” into my face nicer
and I think the sound is also better on the LG. But, one thing I wish I could change is that I can’t get the earpiece volume any lower than they say is “low”. It is still too loud to me.