若要談到手機上幾個重要的附加功能，相信數位相機功能絕對是列在前面。事實上，從近來相關的發表當中，顯然也印證了數位相機功能的重要性。今年還有不少手機還在500萬像素的時候，就已經開始有不少800萬像素的手機發表，像SE、LG、三星都陸續有產品情報出現。
可是當我們看到800萬像素手機陸續出現時，卻又看到DIS宣稱發展了900萬像素給手機用的相機模組，如果沒意外的話，明年初我們可能就有機會看到產品了。
但，900萬像素的產品還來不及看到，我們已經看到了三星推出SCH-B600（如圖），是千萬像素的產品。就在我們消費者還不知道800萬像素的相片品質好不好時，LG近來也宣稱要推出千萬像素的手機。
消費型數位相機，現在也才一千二百萬或一千四百萬像素吧，看來手機是要尬下去了，萬一哪天看到手機像素超過一般數位相機時，也不用太訝異。與其像素競賽，其實筆者還比較希望手機的對焦速度快一點，拍下來後，處理的速度快一點，快門延遲小一點。
《 原文來源：Pocket-lint.co.uk 》 LG promises 10-megapixel cameraphones Execs hint at next year's launches
26 September 2008 15:23 GMT / By Katie Scott
10-megapixel camera phones, or more, HD video on your mobi and even speech recognition GPS technology ... these were amongst the bold promises being made by LG at a London gathering this week.
The phone manufacturer invited a select few journalists to have a chat about converging technology – focusing on its new KC910 mobile phone – which, as well as having an 8-megapixel camera, also offers a whole host of image and video editing tools, Dolby sound and DivX compatibility.
But the roundtable event also gave Pocket-lint a chance to quiz execs from LG, Dolby and DivX as to what we can expect in the phones of the future, and it seems next year could see a whole host of developments.
On the camera phone front – the emergence of three 8-megapixel models has caused all kinds of excitement amongst phone fans, and doom and gloom amongst digital compact camera manufacturers.
And quite rightly so, said Jeremy Newing, LG’s UK head of marketing who claimed that there is no reason why camera phones could not take over from point and shoot cameras.
Indeed – the megapixel race that we saw amongst camera makers is now being battled out between mobile manufacturers, and, said John Barton, LG UK’s sales and marketing director, he’s already seen camera phone offering megapixel counts in the double digits.
The KC910 also has up to 16x digital zoom, provided by Schneider Kreuznach, but no optical zoom however, there were hints that this might change.
The new relationship with DivX, which sees the Renoir bundled with software for converting files into DivX files for viewing on the phone, could also be a sign of things to come.
When we asked about the possibility of HD video recording in mobile phones – after all this seems to be the next big thing in digital cameras – again – it was a case of watch this space.
Andy Glasson from DivX explained that the company is already working on the H.264 encoding and decoding technology that could make this possible.
Moving onto music, the KC910 is the first global launch to feature special dedicated technology from Dolby to make the sound better from the phone, whether from its speaker or when you are listening through headphones.
Jonathan Jowitt from Dolby told us that this is the first device of many: "This is the start of many products we hope, and we also hope to be working with LG for a long time to come".
Sticking with music – way back in February, with not many fireworks, LG announced its own mobile music downloads service called MusicStation Max.
It’s all been a bit quiet since, even as both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have launched Comes With Music and PlayNow, but LG may be up to something.
John Barton said that the time was not yet right for the company: "You can’t go to each individual label and do a deal, and then only offer your customers the music of the labels that sign up. You need an aggregator. For the KF700, we created MusicStation Max with Omnifone, which we can see being popular in the Scandinavian markets". He added, however: "For the rest of the world – watch this space".
And so what else can we expect from LG? Developers may finally see LG opening up its software for third party applications, and the clever bods in the R&D department are also, apparently, working on technology to stop us getting smeary fingers prints over our nice, shiny, LG touchscreens.
