Smile! You're on the Phone
The first medianote of the Summer 2008 session was about the growing sophistication of camera cell phones. According to this recent Yahoo! News article, some cell phones now have cameras that are good enough that a growing number of consumers are beginning to wonder if owning a separate digital camera is really necessary.
As we go through the first chapter in the textbook, this is an excellent example of media convergence.
Gabcast! Club MediaNote #45
posted by Mike Eberts (AKA Your Humble Blogger) @ 9:33 AM
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This week one of our reporters obtained a photograph of an accident scene near JPL that had been taken with a camera phone. She was surprised at the picture quality and couldn't believe it had been taken with a camera phone. It was good enough to use in the paper.
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