Camera Phones and the Future of Digital Photography
By Paul Korzeniowski
TechNewsWorld
03/06/04 1:30 AM PT
"With the quality of the pictures improving, the bandwidth available to ship increasing and the prices continuing to drop, we expect sales of camera phones to rise significantly for the next few years," said Neil Strother, a senior industry analyst with InStat/MDR.
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so if the fcc tries to ban it , the phoens will still be bought(the camera phone that is)
1) Yes, the FCC should have more important things to worry about than camera phones. Really, it's their job to takes care of the airwaves, not the features of the devices that use those airwaves.
2) Yes, the consensus plan is a much bigger and more important task on their plate right now
3) On the other hand, camera phones have not proven (with a few MINOR cases as exceptions) to have any real legitimate business use, and I have not heard of any real-life case of a cameraphone being used in any serious law enforcement situation. I have a friend who works in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)and he has been involved in security plans ...
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macman said:
Thomas Jefferson:
"He who would give up freedom for security, deserves neither freedom nor security."
Thomas Jefferson also said "The Black Man will never be free, because it is beneficial for him to remain in service to those above him."
Be careful believing a quote to be true just because TJ or another founding father said it.
VZWCustServ said:I nearly broke my ass falling out of my chair after reading this post. Hilarious.macman said:
Thomas Jefferson:
"He who would give up freedom for security, deserves neither freedom nor security."
Thomas Jefferson also said "The Black Man will never be free, because it is beneficial for him to remain in service to those above him."
Be careful believing a quote to be true just because TJ or another founding father said it.
But still, just because TJ said "some" things that history has proven false does not mean that "all" of his views are incorrect.
So, are you saying you disagree with the "freedom, security" statement??
Or did you just have a quote that you wnated to use?? 😕
i know that the governemtn uses camera phones and other organization such as the gov, fbi,cia etc.. they all use the camera phones too..
i will do some reasearch to see if a camera phone was actually used to save someone's life or something like that.. and i will let you know..
nextel18 said:
i know that the governemtn uses camera phones and other organization such as the gov, fbi,cia etc.. they all use the camera phones too..
Law Enforcement agencies are not allowed to utilize digital imaging (photography) in the course of gathering evidence. It still has to be on regular negative style film (usually 35mm). This is so the "chain of custody" in evidence handling is not broken and provides for a stronger case.
Walk into a courtroom with a digital image as evidence and it will be thrown out of court. The local SA had that happen to them twice and they advised that they wouldn't accept anything but 35mm pictures and accompanying negatives. (I have a good friend in the SA's...
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