speeddemon

RIM's Storm is a Washout

Performance of processor could be to blame. MSM7600 is too sluggish and the latest in a series of expensive and painfully slow processors from QCOM.


On Dec 05 02:20 PM KenC wrote:

> LOL, @lcpcp, you DON"T NEED To take the battery out of the iPhone.
> You can easily reboot it by holding down two buttons. You know, you
> called the Storm a "beta device". That's an indictment right there.
>
>
> And, to the fellow who thinks having a 3.2Mp camera is a big woop,
> well, I can assure you that camera doesn't hold a candle to my $100
> Fuji F20. Good images require a large chip, just like film used to.
> The bigger the film, the better the underlying image quality.
>
> A large imaging sensor, aka chip, requires depth between the sensor
> and the lens, so that the light from the lens can cover the whole
> sensor. Because the cellphone has a limited depth, (you don't want
> a superfat cellphone do you), there's a physical limitation on how
> big that chip can be, and ultimately a limit on actual image quality.
> As pixels get smaller, in the same size chip, they get hotter. Heat
> creates noise in an image and blurs pixels. The fact is more pixels
> IS NOT necessarily better for your image. That's a physical truth.
>
>
> The ideal pixel size for a minimum of noise is about 6 microns. That's
> what you'll find in DSLRs. Given the typical chip size in a cellphone,
> the optimum chip is for the best pixel quality is 1 megapixel. Got
> that? The optimum chip size based upon optimum pixel size of 6 microns
> is 1 megapixel for a cellphone.