“Why didn’t you write about the cameras on the PDAs you reviewed?”, asked a reader.
Quite simply, because all PDA camera’s are shite, that’s why.
Here’s two pictures showing why:
PDA, and mobile phone cameras fail in the following areas:
- picture quality
- responsiveness (lack of)
ie. take a photo, wait for the PDA to process it, take another photo, wait again. - depth of field (none)
But for completeness, here’s what those PDA’s had:
Megapixels | Largest picture size | Flash | 2nd camera (for video-call) | |
Sony Xpedia X1 | 3.15 | 2048×1536 | Yes | Yes |
Palm Treo Pro | 2.0 | 1600×1200 | No | No |
HTC Touch HD | 5.0 | 2592×1944 | Yes | Yes |
Samsung BlackJack II | 2.0 | 1600×1200 | No | No |
The Sony Xpedia X1 took the best pictures of the four units.