Strike a pose, but not with your Camera Phone

So how many mega pixels does your camera have? Well if we are talking phones that number is ever increasing. But despite this rapid increase in pixels, one area where the manufacturers have guaranteed that we still have a need for the compact digi cam, is the lack of phones where a Xenon flash is implemented. The camera phone is used for evenings, indoor pics, low light conditions etc as well as day shots. Instead we are given a useless LED flash, or if we are lucky a duel LED flash. Although the likes of Sony Ericsson, Nokia and LG have flirted with the technology, none have made it a permanent feature even for their flagship models. The disspointing SE Satio, has a great camera with Xenon flash but is let down by over compressed photos and an awful operating systen called Symbian. Previous Sony Ericsson attempts include the awesome K800 and the C905 both which really took the camera phone to a different level. Likewise Nokia had the bulky but great N82 and the everso cheap plastic feeling 6220 classic which was a cheaper version of the N82. Both these had a great camera 5 megapixels and a decent video output. But 2 years since those, nothing from the Finnish giants.
The list of attempts can go on, but now nearly 8 years since the first camera phones started to arrive on these shores, there hasn't been too much to shout home about. Nokia and Samsung also had brief interests with the optical zooms but nothing further developed. Again a shame as it's another chance to leave the compact cam at home missed. I have had conflicting news from industry experts and one of the manufacterers about the line up for 2010. I am not sure as to why the rollout of the xenon flash is slow. Also, if space or cost are issues why can't the manufacterers commission the various accessories companies to produce an attachment that the enthusiasts can use like the one SE had available for the K750, W800 and W900. This little attachment transformed the photos those phones took and produced fantastic results. Sony Ericsson have just this week releases the Vivaz a HD video recording phone using the nasty Symbian operating system. Although the phone sports an 8 megapixel camera you have an LED flash. Even the long awaited X10 series only sports the poor LED flash. What is surprising is that Nokia whose top handsets have had the services of Carl Zeiss lenses still fail to make the most of it's capabilities. I suppose the excitment of Google's Android Operating system may bring out some future gems. But in the meantime unless you use one a K800 or a N82 etc there isn't a need to pack away your trusty digi cam just yet.


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Location:Hill Rd,Harrow,United Kingdom

Another day another shop

Well it's been a long time coming this next installment of my blog. Due to having no net connection between moving back home to our place in Ealing to moving lock stock to Pinner and again having to wait for Internet connection to be re connected. To top it off, my beloved Dell laptop gets infected with a virus, so whilst I'm rebuiliding the application list on that it's down to the trusty iPhone to blog away. December till February was a strange period. We looked at 3 shops in 3 different areas and all 3 fell through. Although I have found another site I'm going to have to get the ball rolling again. What is surprising in this current economic climate landlords are still holding out for the silly rental and lease lengths. This is dispite the fact a lot of the shops remain closed for long periods of time. I saw a lovely shop on Ruislip, Middlesex which has a mobile number in the window with big sign saying To Let. I rang up the number and was told on 3 occassions to call back in 2 weeks time so after 8 weeks of waiting I tried again and guess what? The same answer call back in 2 weeks time! Then I saw a shop/unit in Stanmore which looked promising but that I have been told after pestering the agent has been taken by a company with stores all over the country again 6 weeks later the shop is still empty and has the sign saying All Enquiries. The third store is in another secondary high street, the landlord is refusing to even negotiate on the lease not ideal for me or anyone else that is interested. With a lot of financial experts predicting a W recession the amount of empty shops is frightening. A lot of secondary high streets are looking quite bare and very run down even in affluent areas like Stanmore and Pinner.

One blessing for sure is that there isn't a surge of £1 shops which although might add value to the locals, too many can also ruin a high street. Look at the once very good Hounslow High Street, for example which had once boasted the likes of Waitros,Next, and The United Colours of Beneton as it's tenants. A good high street improves the local area too by attracting better house prices which then reduces the ASBO effect.

With expenses increasing on a daily basis only crazy folks would give up cushty well paid jobs to run a business. I suppose I'm one of those crazy types. Or I will be once the first shop is on full swing. My target is to quit the IT contracting stint once my business is bringing in 70% of my IT income. Hopefully my next blog entry won't be as long time in coming. In the meantime whilst I'm being crushed by a rather large woman who doesn't seem to understand that my space is my space on the tube into work I'm going to sign off. The crazy one has left the building or atleast the tube station

Location:Canfield Pl,Camden Town,United Kingdom