After looking at various smartphones (including the iPhone), I think I’ve figured out why I’m not satisfied with the camera features on any of them. They’re all phones that happen to feature cameras. I want a camera that happens to feature a phone.
Update: a year later I found one, but I’d already bought a new phone by then.
The drawback of cellular phone technology is that you need to have transmitters everywhere. In a big city you can probably mount them on buildings, but in the suburbs, you just have to put up towers like you do for power lines and land-line phones. Every once in a while, someone decides to pretty things up a bit.
I’ve been meaning to catch a picture of this one for weeks, but I’ve just never been on the right stretch of freeway with a camera before. Katie almost caught it last week on the way back from San Diego, but the lighting conditions were poor and the picture came out way too grainy.
It’s not a bad approximation of a palm tree, but it’s too straight and the fronds are too regular. Still, if most people are only going to see it from their cars, it’s enough to blend in.
