The speaker and main camera are in the back, pretty much where you'd expect them.
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The main camera is now upgraded 8 megapixel shooter, capable of recording video in 1080p HD quality.
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The Galaxy Note 10.1 also includes a 5- megapixel main camera and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera.
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The main camera is a pretty standard 8 megapixel shooter, capable of recording video in 1080p HD quality.
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The device also includes a 5-megapixel main camera and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera.
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The main camera on the Focus S is an 8 megapixel joint with a lone LED performing flash duties.
The 620 will feature a 3.8-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, a 5 MP main camera and and VGA front-facing camera.
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Phoenix's main camera will have a close-up view of this happening.
Phoenix's main camera will have an impressive view of this happening.
The video quality means the Q2HD will likely never be your main camera, but it adds useful extra functionality when you want more than just sound.
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Then there's also an 8-megapixel main camera plus an increasingly common 2-megapixel, 88-degree wide front-facing imager, which is obviously no match for the 5-megapixel counterpart on Oppo's Ulike 2.
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Among the features shared with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 are exclusive camera lenses that transform the creative power of the Nokia Lumia 620's five megapixel main camera and VGA front-facing camera.
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Weighing in at roughly 160g (5.6 ounces) with a 2, 150mAh battery on board, the 8.9mm (0.35 inch) thick handset has an 8-megapixel main camera, a 1.3-megapixel shooter up front, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as standard.
The rest of the Vivo X1, however, is more bog-standard in comparison: MediaTek MT6577T processor (1.2GHz, dual core, Cortex-A9), 4.7-inch 960 x 540 IPS display, 1GB RAM, 16GB built-in storage, eight-megapixel main camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and WCDMA 2100 3G radio.
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The rest of this Android 4.1.2 phone is a bit of a mix: there's a 4.5-inch 960 x 540 display, a quad-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, an 8-megapixel main camera (so not UltraPixel), a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera, WCDMA radio and microSD expansion.
That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.
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But the real selling point of the E1 is its role in HTC's new e-commerce strategy in China: while you can get hold of one at an authorized HTC store, HTC's Chinese "eShop" throws in custom options for the built-in storage (8 or 16GB), main camera (five or eight megapixels, both with only 720p video capture) and one of the six body colors plus patterns.
But the real selling point of the E1 is its role in HTC's new e-commerce strategy in China: while you can get hold of one at an authorized HTC shop, HTC's Chinese "eShop" throws in custom options for the built-in storage (8 or 16GB), main camera (five or eight megapixels, both with only 720p video capture) and one of the six body colors plus patterns.
This phone also breaks new ground in optics with 1080p video recording, f2.0 aperture and a dedicated HTC ImageChip on the main 8-megapixel camera and an ultrawide-angle lens on the front camera that lets you fit up to four people in the frame for a premium Skype experience.
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The degree of digital clarity and crispness is a function of how many "pixels" (collections of tiny dots that compose images like the photographs in this magazine) can be handled by a digital camera's main chip.
We're not exactly sure who this one is going to appeal to (supposedly this one is for the ladies), but the 7270 is one of Nokia's steadily number of flip-phones, and sports a stainless steel cover, a built-in FM tuner, a VGA quality digital camera, a 128x160 pixel main display, a smaller external display.
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As you've probably already heard, the main selling point here is that said "smart camera" is powered by a slick (and near-vanilla) Android 2.3.3 with Google services, so with the built-in WiFi, you can upload your 16-megapixel images or 1080p videos straight to your various social networks or other cloud services.
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The main issue we had with our review unit involved the camera.
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While the new model still has the front-facing FaceTime HD camera, it's lost the 5-megapixel main shooter, and a little bit of weight, to boot (0.06 ounces).
From the main menu one can easily navigate to various applications, like the Internet, camera, games and organizer.
It turns out that the main paparazzi was a lady with a few kids, and she used the kids to hide her camera.
Judging by one of the demo clips after the break, it seems that this Infobar's 8-megapixel main imager (with F2.0 lens) and 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera take advantage of HTC's ImageSense chip for speedy burst shots.
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