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By Edmund Clare


Almost every piece of digital equipment now comes, as standard, with a variety of digital cameras and videos to record our everyday lives, so the question will digital cameras as a single piece of technical equipment be obsolete is a good one. Do we need to carry a smart phone or an iPhone 4 with us when out and also carry a camcorder, a camera, a GPS or even a note pad? The answer is probably no because the ever increasing range of gadgets now all include a camera and as life gets busier, the less we can carry the better.

Of course there are arguments for and against the replacement of digital cameras but as the quality of the digital image gets better, the demand for digital cameras with the same number of mega-pixels as a smart phone will decline as users prefer a multi-functional device rather than having three or four different gadgets.

The HTC Evo 3D is a smart phone that can do this and a lot more. The 5 megapixel camera delivers a stunning crystal clear image with the addition of capturing images with the 3D technology. The screen is a glasses free 3D screen with HTC Sense. At 720p the resolution of the screen rivals some of the most expensive SLR digital cameras and they certainly do not have 3D capability.

The 3D capability of the HTC Evo 3D means that this phone is going to be one of the most popular for users and developers. The HTC Evo 3D has fully 3D functionality with the use of glasses and this will make gaming, browsing on the internet and chatting a whole new experience. The market for smart phones with 3D movies will mean friends can share their creations as well as watching the latest movies releases. This will be a long awaited phone.

When Apple released the iPhone 4 the integration of the digital camera to allow Facetime was a revolution and face to face video chat became a reality. The iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera that captures images with crystal clear image capturing and the vast range of apps for the iPhone 4 means that the digital camera is exploited for a whole host of applications such as pulse meters to Google maps with GPS. The main advantage of a smart phone over an ordinary camera is the simple fact that smart phones do a lot more. When you go travelling, the camera may be left behind in favour of your phone because why take two items that do the same task?

One disadvantage of a smart phone is it high energy use which means constant re-charging and unlike a digital camera which battery life can be months if the use is quite infrequent, the battery life of a smart phone could be measured in hours rather than days. Battery technology is improving and charge times are very fast but the more the phone has to do, the faster the processor and hence more energy is wasted. However, the flexibility of the chargers for phones means that you can go virtually anyway and recharge your phone.

Will digital cameras be obsolete? This question will continue to be asked for a long time and it probably won't be answered until the questions about re-charging capabilities are solved for smart phones but also the dedicated photographer will always opt for a camera over a phone. For the everyday shoot and snap camera, this may be a different story.

As long as we have apps we will always have a way to find a use for the digital camera function in our smart phones. The variety of apps that use the camera in a smart phone is growing weekly and it may not be too long before retinal scans could be done with a camera or finger print scans for security measures to log into our phones, now that would be eye-opening.




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