You're too young to remember the 1950s fad of stuffing as many people as possible into a phone booth, but that's sort of what consumer electronics makers are doing these days to phones themselves. Flip open a cutting-edge cellphone and out tumble televisions, stereos, Internet-connected PDAs—and cameras. The models we like best offer three-megapixel resolution, autofocus, and even optical zooming. Oh, and photo-blogging tools.
Nokia N93
When you set it up in landscape mode to view its 2.4-inch LCD, it looks like a miniature laptop. Swing out the screen to shoot VGA video at 30fps and it looks like a tiny camcorder. But the Nokia N93's gymnastics don't end there: Flip it open and rotate its two halves 90 degrees and you can take horizontal photographs rather than the cellphone-standard verticals. Good ones too, because the camera in this 6.3-ounce GSM model offers 3.2-megapixel resolution and a nearly-3X Zeiss optical AF zoom, about 34-94mm in 35mm. Files are saved to a miniSD card, where you can also keep tunes for the N93's MP3 player. In addition to USB, Bluetooth, and IrDA, there's AV-out for TV display. PictBridge support lets you send photos to a printer. And built-in photo blogging benefits from the N93's fast Internet access.
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