Introduction
As we might have expected, the resolution increase, brought about by Samsung Innov8, has affected the other manufacturers as well, one of the results of this process being LG KC910 Renoir - I might begin the review this way, but let’s admit it, it wouldn’t be really practical. Instead let’s think about what kind of handsets are available today that have an 8 megapixel image sensor: there is of course Samsung Innov8, as the first European phone, or the handset called Pixon from the same manufacturer, which has the same resolution, but a different type of image sensor. We also have Sony Ericsson C905 and the subject of this article, the new handset from LG. That’s the end of the list, we have four phones, from three manufacturers. Don’t we miss something?
Well I do, as a matter of fact two manufacturers are missing from the list, one is Nokia, considered to be the alpha and omega by many users, and Motorola is not here either, though they are amongst the five largest ones. They have some financial and other problems which block them from launching such a high-res phone, although thanks to their cooperation agreement with Kodak we can be sure that something’s coming sooner or later. On the other hand, we don’t know what’s with Nokia, who have recently announced their latest multimedia-wonder, N97, which will still have a 5 megapixel image sensor that can be soon considered as a veteran. Fanatics probably see the greatness of their favorite manufacturer in this phone as well, saying that the Finnish guys won’t join the war. The situation is much more complicated, I can hardly imagine that the largest manufacturer has material/technological problems, so the question remains open. It is, however, thought-provoking that LG is the third manufacturer who has launched such a solution. We have written this so many times that it’s a cliché: one should pay attention to the smaller Korean company as well.
LG KC910 Renoir – the name is interesting for two reasons. Firstly because the direct predecessor, Viewty, has been a member of the KU series, but it looks like after the model number 990 the manufacturer has decided to switch series, so they have launched this phone in the KC series, which had only one member that’s worth to mention, this is KC550 with a 5 megapixel camera – we can see on both models that there is no connection between the resolution and the model number. The other question is that why they had to use the name of the 19th century impressionist/classicist painter for a camera phone? It’s clear that the manufacturer likes to name its handsets after celebrities, but this smells like some marketing crap, as no famous motorcycle champion or Pierre-Auguste Renoir have to do anything with photography, and most of the potential buyers know as much of the painter that have been taught to them on art history class a couple of years ago – which means not much. I don’t want to be unnecessarily annoyed, but I think I’m not the only one who thinks that this makes art look like a cheap thing, but putting the creations of a French painter as wallpapers on a phone, what a thought… oh, and it’s not just a thought: this is reality.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
