Mobile phone technology has moved a long way in recent years and an awful amount of attention and development has centered around mobile phone cameras.
This nicely delivers us to my or original question; What happened to phones with swivel cameras?
I like many others do not want a sub-standard secondary camera and for that matter I don’t want a selfie timer or selfie line-up software either!
We have seen some of the less powerful brand names like Huawei and Oppo put more respectable 5 megapixel cameras on their flagship devices to cater for the selfie market but is it too much to ask for the same quality front-and-back?
We have seen in the past and today in other countries, phones with swivel cameras. So today I am posting a photo gallery of camera phones that fit into this bracket and ask will you join my movement to bring back the swivel camera to the mainstream?
Oppo N1 - released in 2013 - Pitch: The world’s first rotating camera smartphone
LG CU500 - released 2006 - Pitch: You’ll never get bored
Vivo X3 - released out now
Nokia 3250 - released 2005
So there you have it, some glorious pictures of swivel camera phones from the past and the present.
Written by: Michael Brown in conjunction with Mobilephones.comDevelopment:
- Of course the first challenge was to miniaturize the technology, which once existed as a nasty plug-in accessory. Thank you Sony Ericsson!
- The second challenge was to increase the resolution or megapixels that could be captured and this has taken us from VGA quality, which was pretty nasty, to up to 41 megapixels which we have seen on the Nokia Lumia 1020.
- Video calling was the third challenge and we initially saw some unique solutions to dealing with this such as swivel cameras that could be turned to face forward or back.
- The ‘selfie’ became a household name and the smartphone solution to this craze was to put a secondary camera facing forward on phones, but at a lower resolution compared to the main rear facing camera.
Where are you now?
This nicely delivers us to my or original question; What happened to phones with swivel cameras?
I like many others do not want a sub-standard secondary camera and for that matter I don’t want a selfie timer or selfie line-up software either!
We have seen some of the less powerful brand names like Huawei and Oppo put more respectable 5 megapixel cameras on their flagship devices to cater for the selfie market but is it too much to ask for the same quality front-and-back?
Phones with swivel cameras
We have seen in the past and today in other countries, phones with swivel cameras. So today I am posting a photo gallery of camera phones that fit into this bracket and ask will you join my movement to bring back the swivel camera to the mainstream?
Oppo N1 - released in 2013 - Pitch: The world’s first rotating camera smartphone
LG CU500 - released 2006 - Pitch: You’ll never get bored
Vivo X3 - released out now
Nokia 3250 - released 2005
So there you have it, some glorious pictures of swivel camera phones from the past and the present.
