JasJar camera is 2.0 MegaPixel?

[Guest inspectorgadjet]

I just got an i-Mate JasJar this morning, and I've been playing around with it and trying things out. It's really brilliant and I am glad I got it. It's only slightly bigger than my MDA III and that doesn't make much difference to me at all.

I've also discovered what I think might be an incorrect specification...everywhere that I've specs, they say it has a 1.3 megapixel camera. When I go into the settings though, it lets you choose different sizes, and two of the options are 1M and 2M. So I figured maybe it's just their way of specifying the sizes. I tested a picture, and the size does indeed come to 1600x1280. That works out to 2,048,000 pixels = 2 megapixels. I also checked on some photography sites, and 1600x1200 is the minimum size for 2 megapixel images and 1280x960 is the minimum for 1.3 megapixel.

So can anyone else confirm if I am right on this? Do we actually have 2 mega pixel cameras in our JasJars? 8)

[Guest Pondrew]

Actually, from what I've read it's the clever software in the Universal that enables it to do that with a 1.3megapixel camera.

[Guest inspectorgadjet]

Ahhh...that would make sense too...and here I thought I had discovered something brilliant.

[Guest mack_t]

the 2 MP is actually interpolated....so really its just the software making it 2mp....the camera itself is only 1.3 mp...

[Guest Dumdidum]

That is right...

And a really bad 1.3Mpix-Camera... :-(

[Guest geraintwd]

At least it is better than the SPV C500 - that didn't even have a light. Now I can take photos in the pub w00t! :)

[Guest shadamehr]

Yup - it has an Interpolate option, same as a couple of other phones, like the NEC i-mode phones

Avoid interpolation up like the plague.