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Had a look at the code. Tizen. But did not find any signs of dalvik, OpenMobile ACL or *.dex files.

Boring.

"To be fair, cell phone camera quality in general still does not surpass even the cheap compacts. Quite the contrary in fact; my four year old cheap Canon A1000 IS still beats my Sony Xperia acro S...

"Could traditional aviation survive, if people discovered they could fly using their phones, and airlines had to ditch economy class and sell only first class tickets? Perhaps. But only with fewer...

"This suggest to me that the only way you could do a manageable superzoom with a 1" sensor and fast lens would be to go for something like a 16x zoom, MAX, and still it would not be small."

If it...

"That's just fantasy! Look how a 28-280mm equiv. on micro 4/3 is big and heavy already"

New Panny 14-140/3.5-5.6 is not that big and heavy, integrate it in a fixed-lens camera and it will come...

Image quality of LX7 and XZ-2 is not that close to cheap compacts, the difference (compared to, say, the VG-160 in the article, taking both sensor and lens in consideration) is from 2.5 stops on...

Sales of D600 are minuscule compares to APS-C DSLRs, where Canon eats almost all the cookies.
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With 1", not such a fantasy. Look how small the RX100 is. Surely there is plenty of weight/size budget for longer range zoom in a bridge form factor. Not constant f/2.8 to 600mm of course, but...

"Here's a tip Olympus, be the first manufacturer to make a high quality water proof camera"

They were the first manufacturer to make a highest-quality-by-far water proof camera last year, which...

Who said they dropped? They just released 3 lenses for that mount (A-series 19, 30 and 60).

"The recent announcement that they are dumping their DSLR customers"

Where did you get this? All rumors say a new E-series will be released this year.

PhotoHawk, your calculations are completely arbitrary. Nobody loses "$10 on every camera", you invest, say, $10M in new camera development and tooling (including overhead costs) and then sell...

marike6, Sony and Canon are basically the only ones who sell any P&S, the other sales are just blip, including Nikon. If Nikon camera division made any profit, it is from...

marike6, and who get profit selling them? Margins on them always were thin, and now everybody reports drastic fall in their sales (meaning the fixed costs of their development are shared between...

I understand the VG-160 etc, not use. But, say, VR-340, 10x 24-240mm optical zoom in the package just of 125g, with stabilization, and all under $100. Smartphones cannot do that yet, although shows...

And still nobody cares. :)

The lens and viewfinder cost (don't know about worth) $450+279=$729.

"just a few lens elements in a bracket inside the barrel"

Not so few in fact, 8 extra elements in 4 groups. Some full lenses are simpler.

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