As you know the most used camera on Flickr is the iPhone…Compact Cameras are dead and long live the Phone Cameras! That’s the revilution that is going on the mass market. And that’s why Panasonic is pushing their new Lumix Phone. Today they annoucned the new Panasonic Lumix Phone P-05C you can see here: Panasonic Japan. It has 3.3-inch LCD, 13.2MP sensor with full HD video recording, it is the world’s first phone with optical “anti-shake” (something we would love to see in m43 Panasonic cameras!) and DLNA support.
Link to the official press release: Panasonic.co.jp.
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Panasonic lenses (well, some of them anyway) already have optical anti-shake, don’t you mean electronic/sensor anti-shake?
Yea, if they can squeeze it to a phone, why cant we get it with 14,20 or 7-14mm lens?
(ok the 7-14 is going t get it soon, but still, what about 14mm&20mm pancakes?)
That’s actually pretty cool I think.
Optical anti-shake = O.I.S. It’s been available for m4/3 for quite a while now…
I think Admin meant to say it would be good if Panasonic m43 bodies had built-in stabilizer.
no no, I think admin is saying it would be great to have a phone feature in m43 bodies!!! 😉
imagine how cool that would be sticking the sexay G3 to your ears! 😉
what about a micro 4/3 version of that phone? 😀 😀
But only if it runs Android and is compatible with Android app market!
I’ve been waiting for this, but I wish they would make a water proof one, like the TS3, with all the stuff the iphone has, like GPS and what not. I just got an iphone yesterday, too, dangit.
Lumix Phone was introduced last year, so this must be 2.generation then
I don’t see the demand for this kind of product, sorry. The Nokia N8 is a smart phone a really good one(IMHO) and it has already a bigger sensor and i guess a brighter lens than the lumix phone. Does Pana think that the game changer is the zoom?
It has more camera features than the N8 and seems to operate faster (according the Japanese site for it) so it really is more like a camera with a phone, than a smartphone with a camera, so I prefer the N8 too as it is more versatile.
The focal length is 4.6mm (27mm eq) so the crop factor is 5.87 if I’ve worked that out right, which is about 1/2.4″ 13.2MP sensor. The Nokia N8 is 12MP 1/1.83″ sensor. Both lenses are f/2.8 but the Nokia is branded Zeiss and is very sharp corner to corner. No Leica branding on the Lumix.
N8 still rules ?
Finally, somebody is heading the right direction, a real camera that also has a build-in phone, not other way around.
What?! No real external controls? No hot shoe? No EVF?
At least it’s offered in PINK!
One thing’s for damn sure…
It’s no iPhone. 😉
That answers the question “what is common to GF3 and a phone”
very interesting. we already see GPS makers now making phones. Will the panasonic phone run Android, and the camera is controlled using an app? Hopefully they will invest heavily to get the touch screen interface right, with or without phone, this is the future of mass market camera. Maybe Apple will buy Fuji some day.
If you look closely, you will see that – although they are trying to disguise it visually – the lens diameter is miniscule, i.e., the sensor is no larger than in any other cellphone. IMHO, this product is no more “groundbreaking” than SonyEricsson labelling some of their phones “CyberShot” as they have done for years.
Soeren
Needs to run Android.
Panasonic announced an Android based tough book tablet 2 weeks ago so they are familiar with Android, hopefully when they and Olympus announce cameras with apps I hope they chose that operating system 😀
Olympus also bought a mobile company last year…
I have an iPhone and a GH2. Looks like a mediocre phone and a mediocre camera. Explain again why I should have even an infintesimal interest in one of these things?!?
Because it might run Android!
I can’t think of a weaker excuse.
‘Cause your GH2 isn’t pink, obviously. I was considering spray painting mine but now with this possibility . . .
Because, if it runs Android, it is already infinitesimally better than iOS on the iPhone (no contest here, I use and develop for both).
And it surely is much more portable than the GH2, to the point you have it always with you.
Got it?
Good.
Didn’t get it?
Sorry, you need to read up/try up a bit more.
Not to be a language geek, but infinitESIMALLY means exceedingly small. For example: Differential calculus determines the slope of a line segment as the difference in line segment end points approaches 0 or becomes infinitesimal.
In contrast, inifiniTELY means exceedingly large.
I think you meant “infiniTELY better” instead of “infiniTESIMALLY better” if you meant to convey that Android is vastly better than iOS and iPhones.
BTW – I use a Palm Pre+ (on which I am posting the messages right now).
Both Android and HP-Palm’s WebOS are Linux-based. As a developer, what do you think of the HP-Palm WebOS?
Palm had financial troubles before they sold out to HP. My Pre+ seems a little underpowered, but HP just released the next generation Veer products.
HP-Palm’s WebOS has less apps than Apple’s iOS and Android. I’m not sure whether that is a market share issue (owing to Palm’s financial troubles) or that WebOS and the SDKs are less developer-friendly than iOS and Android.
I like the small size of the Pre and Veer to put in my pocket. For true cameras such as m43, ergonomics is more important to me than pocketability.
Come on, this isn’t news. Sony and Casio have been doing this for years. Plus Nokia’s new offering is very similar to this, despite being announced like a year ago.
Also you will probably never see this phone outside of the East Asian market.
Those camera phones look like toys. The real future market will be in mirrorless, interchangeable lens cell phones.
Here is one of the leading edge products in this category.
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/
😉
When is Oly going update the Pens to add a touch tone dialer, text messaging, and calendar sync with Outlook?
Just kidding!
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Admin, let’s stay on topic – FT, MFT and competing MILC.
Seriously, time to move 100% to mirrorlessrumors.com.
@pdc
I don’t think Sony MILC users and Panny/Olympus MILC users are happy bed fellows let alone if Canon and /or Nikon launch MILC’s