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Get More From Your Camera Phone
Author : Iggy Quazi
Get More From Your Camera Phone
It seems that in recent times, it's no longer the case that the
main use of a mobile phone is to make phone calls. The cost of
manufacturing miniature components has fallen dramatically,
allowing us access to a host of multimedia applications on the
latest mobile phones. We can now take pictures, listen to music,
watch and make videos clips, access the Internet, make notes and
even make phone calls on our mobile phones!
Not so long ago, people commuting to work may have taken with
them a mobile phone, maybe a personal organiser and some form of
music player to help alleviate the boredom of the journey. Some
people in certain occupations like Estate Agents may have even
taken a compact digital camera for snaps. Now people can just
take their latest camera mobile phone with them, which provides
them with access to movies, games, music, online shops, photos,
voice recordings and so much more besides. The amalgamation of
these gadgets and features into one compact, affordable device
is really an amazing feat of engineering technology. Great
though it is to have access to these fun features, a lot of
space (or memory) is required to be able to store all the
information. Most mobile phones off the shelf come with a
certain amount of built-in memory (or internal memory), the
amount of which varies from phone to phone, but generally
speaking built-in memory is kept to a minimum. This is because
manufacturers realised the build cost of mobile phones could be
massively reduced by building just enough memory into each phone
so that it is usable, i.e. there is just enough internal memory
in a phone so that it may function as a phone, plus allowing for
a few music tracks and photos to be stored. So if you want to
get a bit more out of your mobile it's essential to
substantially increase its memory.
Increasing the memory is easy, all it involves is buying a
suitable memory card and inserting it in the slot somewhere on
your camera phone, it really is that simple. Memory cards are
available in various capacity which are measured in Mb i.e.
128Mb, 256Mb, 512mb etc, the bigger the Mb capacity, the more
pictures you can store. Recently memory cards have moved up to
even bigger sizes to cope with the memory requirements of many
multimedia devices, measured in Gb i.e. 1Gb, 2Gb etc, 1Gb equals
1000Mb so now you can work that out!
The exact amount of data you can store on a certain size memory
card is difficult to work out because of the various formats of
data being stored for music, images, data etc. Generally
speaking photos, video clips and MP3 music files use up large
amount of memory space, e.g. an average pop song on MP3 will use
approx 4-5Mb of memory and video will use much more.
There are several types of memory cards available for mobile
phones and only the correct type will work properly on your
phone. In most cases, there is also a restriction on the maximum
size of memory card you can use on your mobile phone, a bigger
capacity card than recommended by the manufacturer may not work
at all or even if it works, may cause loss of data or damage to
your phone in due course and invalidate any warranty. Our advice
would be to use more than one card as required, e.g. you may use
a memory card for one type of music and another card for a
different type of music, in the same way as you would use CD's
or tapes.
The best way to find out which memory card your mobile phone
takes is to check the owners manual. If you are in any doubt
with which card you need to order, you can call us on 0845 257
2088 (9am-5pm Mon-Fri) with the make and model of your mobile
phone and we will do our best to assist you. Mouse2House.co.uk
is one of the biggest memory card specialists in the UK offering
unbelievably low prices on top brand memory cards.
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