Sorry, had a specs slip-up here. The Centro’s cam is 1.3MP, not 2MP. Thanks for all who pointed this out!
Palm’s phones never were famous for their imaging capabilities – in fact, the Treo 600 was almost universally loathed due to its gruesomely bad VGA “noiseograph”…but nobody really cares about the camera on a business smartphone anyways. Palm’s Centro is targeted at consumers who do care about cams…is it worth it?
The Centro’s camera has a native resolution of 1.3MP, which leads to 1200×1024 images. The lens is a classic fixed one(no autofocus here); and don’t even ask about a flash LED.
Here are a few sample images from the Centro’s cam – click on the icons to see them in their native size.
As for the 2x digital zoom – its effect is illustrated in these indoor pictures:
In the end, the image quality of the Centro’s cam won’t make anybody happy – Palm definitely wasted money on the ad in the JPG photography magazine. Yep…the Centro does make better pictures than a 680…but other boxen remain miles ahead.
Stay tuned for your final verdict and an interview series with leading developers!
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Just wanted to let you know that the Centro Resoultion is 1280 x 1024 (1.3 MP), not 2 MP as your article states. It is not better than the last few Treos
Did you try PhotoHQ? It gaves more resolution by composing two photos together and puting it in BMP which this way doesn’t lose some quality. I also put pxa clocker at 507 mhz on this app to make it faster.
Theres also TekPhotos or Live to take photo in movement or photos in a Night club, this way one of the photos may capture the clubs lights and give a better photo without having a flash. Tekphotos take a number a photos and live just films but there you can put it film frame into a photo and pick the best one.
Sorry I meant PhotosHQ, you can test it out here: http://treoware.com/photoshq.html
Hi,
whoops – thank you so much, will fix in a jiffy!
As for the so-called superresolution problem. This has been around since the days of the Siemens SX1…and I never really managed to see any improvement. Rui, do you have sample images that show significant improvements?
Best regards
Tam Hanna