Finished the model today, and I'm almost done with the boards. Here's what I came up with, a flip phone that converts from a 'bar phone' into a potent digital camera, huge battery, SD card storage, mp3 abilities, 5mp camera, and most importantly it's more of a camera with the added features of a phone, instead of the other way around. Also, the twin LCDs share a common backlight to save energy and space. Few other things I'm sure I'm forgetting. Thank you all for your input!










I wound up with a very very feasible product (I purposely built it a LITTLE big just for the sake of detail) that does not require any future voodoo technology. Given the large volume of the battery pack, it should have fantastic battery life, and I left plenty of room for the camera lense and mechanism, so that's doable also. I dislike the Motorola ROKR microSD storage solution, regular SD cards are pretty dang small anyway, and they're getting pretty great storage capacities now. There'd probably even be room for two cards, but that'd be weird. I dislike camera phones because they're primarily cell phones with a camera tacked onto them. They're getting better, but the lack of real camera capabilities makes htem a joke to me, I don't see the point in them. They take ass pictures that you can't print, and the res is so bad it looks horrid on your computer. So, I first and formost set out to think the other way.... start with a camera, and how could i make it into a phone. Flipping it around worked great. If it were to go into production one side would have small magnets inside it that would make it pleasently 'stick' to the otherside, so it woldn't be all floppy/willy nilly.

Successful? Sure. I'd get one today, especially since my canon is dying. A decent camera with decent controls and manual capabilities, a cell phone, and an MP3 player with a cheap, plentiful storage solution.