Guest Brody Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 MSMobileNews.com have posted some actual photos taken with the MPx220! See them here! They have also announced that the MPx220 will record video in 3G format, click here for the original story. Here are some ACTUAL PHOTOS taken with the Motorola MPx220! It has a 1.2MP camera but the results are rather disappointing!That's right, the Motorola MPx220 records video in 3G format! A preview image can be seen below. Source: MSMobileNews.com14-07-04-MPx220_1Preview.gif
Guest Pondrew Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 Oh dear. The MPX220's 1.2meg camera is getting bad reviews while the vastly inferior (in theory!) vga camera in the SPV C500 is being praised for it's picture quality. Seems the rule book is going out the window with these two devices...
Guest Brody Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 Well i've always said not to buy a camera for its MegaPixel rating, i was stung with that once, never again. The refresh rate of the C500/E500's camera will be the selling point for me, just imagine, smooooth video! :D
Guest AvWijk Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 What a shame, what a crap quality pictures for such a nice phone, I'll really hope they'll work this out :cry:
Guest idavid Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 does anyone else have trouble with msmobilenews.com? it NEVER works for me... :?
Guest Brody Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 What happens when you visit it www.MSMobileNews.com ? Is it ok for everyone else as its works fine here?
Guest refnulf Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Working fine for me brody. For anyone having problems, try Ctrl-F5 and try again.
Guest VapoTrini Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Think you guys are being a bit hard on the camera quality. Remember the phone hasn't been released yet. There's still time to improve upon the poor quality. The guy who took that picture even mentioned that the rom isn't even at 1.0. No way are the photos going to look like that with a final rom. To me, everything else on the phone looks top notch.
Guest TANKERx Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 A video recorder that records in 3G format? How innovative! I bet Symbian will end up copying that idea....... :roll:
Guest chucky.egg Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 :P Oh no, I'm sure Symbian cant catch up now! I can't wait for SPV C10000 where the battery lasts long enough to record 30 seconds of video using this feature!
Guest idavid Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 when i go to msmobilenews.com all i get is 'cannot find page' stuff? why the hell does it work for everyone else and not me? :? :? :? :? :?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Can you ping the site? I reckon the final camera will look like that, if they have that many 220's in production now i think its unlikely they'll change the camera chip at the very last minute (without further delays).
Guest ClintEastman Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Well that's settled then, a C500 for me then! :P
Guest Rob.P Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Can you ping the site? I reckon the final camera will look like that, if they have that many 220's in production now i think its unlikely they'll change the camera chip at the very last minute (without further delays). Prehaps the chip doesn't need changing they just ad-hoc'd the software together so that they can confirm that the camera electronics work, an improvement to teh software and the MPx220 could give better pictures. I'm gonna stay optimistic after updating my firmware on my DVD Burner and finding I can now burn Dual Layer Discs, anything is possible.
Guest Simon Desser Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 I wouldn't be at all surprised if the chip wasn't 1 million pixels, it's possible that it just "resizes" the final image to a million :?:
Guest siu99spj Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 ping? :oops: Click on 'Start' and in 'Run' type cmd and press enter. At the command prompt type ping www.msmobilenews.com and press enter. You mst be connected to the internet before you do this! Hopefully you'll get some info that will show if you can connect to the site or not. If that doesn't work, try this out tracert www.msmobilenews.com. Whatever that spews out, copy it and post it here. We'll then know where you're having your connection problems.
Guest Rob.P Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 I wouldn't be at all surprised if the chip wasn't 1 million pixels, it's possible that it just "resizes" the final image to a million :?: Those pictures have been doctored though so would like to see an unaltered version of the pics. Also does the camera save the pictures as GIF or is that part of the alterations that have happened? Still keeping on the optimistic side :P
Guest Brody Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 The previews are gifs, the fullsize pictures are jpeg's. As for them being doctored, the quality has not been reduced i can assure you of that.
Guest TANKERx Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 A video recorder that records in 3G format? How innovative! I bet Symbian will end up copying that idea....... :roll: Just in case anybody missed it, I was being sarcastic :-) My old 7650 was doing this years ago. Sorry :oops:
Guest Brody Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 I gathered, to be honest i'd prefer avi video recording though, less complicated when it comes to watching them on your PC.
Guest Rob.P Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 You can easily get the 3GPP codec downloaded for windows media player or any other player come to mention it, once it's on your system you can use it with pretty much any media package. The reason I mentioned about the GIF's was I couldn't find a link anywhere to the JPG version and it seemed that people were judging the quality on the preview picture you posted, which looks downgraded due to the banner on the picture having the same downgraded quality, sorry for the confusion.
Guest Simon Desser Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 I gathered, to be honest i'd prefer avi video recording though, less complicated when it comes to watching them on your PC. I'd like both :P Avi's are good for watching on your PC, and emailing people (although they can get quite big) BUT, 3GP shouldn't even be in debate :? It's the industry standard when it comes to MMS messaging, so I can't believe that a phone like the E200 could have ever been released without the option to record in 3gp :? I never doubted that Motorola would release a camera smartphone without it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if HTC/Orange "overlooked" this handy little feature on the C500 :?: :cry:
Guest Brody Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 The average user doesn't have the 3GP codec installed on their PC, this was my point. I know some friends who will be nagging me with regard to how to get their videos to play! THe links to the JPEG files are below each image.
Guest mattscholey Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 when i go to msmobilenews.com all i get is 'cannot find page' stuff? why the hell does it work for everyone else and not me? :? :? :? :? :? I've had a problem like this where some random websites won't work, when they do for everyone else. Solved it by: Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete Cookies and Delete Files. Losing your cookies is a pain if you can't remember your passwords though, but it worked for me. Hope this helps, Matt
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