Last week my wife was able to snag us free tickets to a Yankee game. My father and his two brothers were all long-time New Yorkers, but they're scattered now, and none of us had been inside the new stadium up until then.
I emailed them all some photos from my phone (Droid Eris) during the game. My dad was amazed by the quality of pics from the camera (relative to what he remembered of phone cameras), and we ended up having this exact conversation. Should there be an affordable non-phone but always-networked mid-level camera? He uses a cheap, yearly pre-pay phone and has no interest in paying $100 a month or more for phone+data, but he would get a camera with a small monthly fee for data use in a heartbeat. (He's a photo buff with some higher-end cameras, but that's obviously a whole different market.) I suspect he's the minority and more and more people will just move towards smart phones (high monthly fees or not), but I wonder if there's a market there.
I emailed them all some photos from my phone (Droid Eris) during the game. My dad was amazed by the quality of pics from the camera (relative to what he remembered of phone cameras), and we ended up having this exact conversation. Should there be an affordable non-phone but always-networked mid-level camera? He uses a cheap, yearly pre-pay phone and has no interest in paying $100 a month or more for phone+data, but he would get a camera with a small monthly fee for data use in a heartbeat. (He's a photo buff with some higher-end cameras, but that's obviously a whole different market.) I suspect he's the minority and more and more people will just move towards smart phones (high monthly fees or not), but I wonder if there's a market there.