Sony Ericsson showed the first cell phone with Smile Shutter technology, the C510 Cyber-shot with a 3.2 megapixel camera phone at CES.
The C510 Cyber-shot camera phone detects when a person is smiling an automatically takes the a photo. The C510 Cyber-shot also detects faces, auto-rotates, auto-focuses, is YouTube enabled and fixes photos.
The C510 Cyber-Shot has a music player, web access, speakerphone, email (and other messaging), FM radio, video recording, and Bluetooth.
The C510 Cyber-Shot will be available in the first quarter of 2009. The news release suggest that it will be at an "affordable" price. The next question we ask is it more a camera or more a phone? We say much more of a camera.
The Sony Ericsson C510 Cyber-shot Specs
Camera
- 3.2 megapixel camera
- Auto focus
- Up to 3.2x digital zoom
- Smile Shutter
- Face detection
- Photo fix
- Photo light
- Video light
- Picture blogging
- Video blogging
- Video recording
Other Specs:
- Size: 107 x 47 x 12.5 mm
- Weight: 92 grams
- Colors:Future Black & Radiation Silver
- Main screen: 262,144 color TFT, scratch-resistant
- Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
- Size: 2.2 inches
- Phone memory: Up to 100MB
- Memory card support: Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™)
- Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs
- Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs
- Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs
- Standby time UMTS: Up to 350 hrs
- Video call time: Up to 2 hrs 20 min