Have you ever bought a phone FOR the camera?

Most of the apps I've paid for are actually for the girls, and they have an iPad and an iPhone Touch on the same iTunes account, and could inherit my phone (unless DH wants it) so I'm ok with that aspect. I won't be buying from a carrier (that all works way different here than in the States) but I wonder if there's anywhere that has a window like that. I hadn't thought of that but it would be awesome to be able to test drive!

 

There's no Danish Amazon. I can order from the UK or Germany one, but I suspect I won't be able to find a phone that ships here. They claim to ship most kinds of products as long as they are "fulfilled by Amazon" and not random sellers, but I am always running into things that they won't ship. I tried to order a bird house once, and it said they couldn't ship it to my address and offered a link to learn why. The link helpfully explained that items over a certain size (which the bird house was no where close to) and items containing hazardous materials couldn't be shipped outside the country. I dunno, maybe I'm crazy for thinking a bird house doesn't have plutonium in it or something! So I only really order from Amazon if I have to.

 

This is why I haven't already bought a dSLR. My 3-year-old has actually never been a problem, but the 5-year-old *was* at three. She destroyed an iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, and two P&S cameras. And she was a climber. There was no safe place. So I didn't want to even have one until I was absolutely positively SURE that phase was over. I suspect she is the reason for the permanent bokeh on my current P&S but she actually makes an effort to take care of things now. I'll probably give her the P&S. The 3-year-old has gotten more interested in the Kidizoom camera so we'll do a little trading down the line.

My phone is ordered and should be here this week! Hopefully I'll have something for the photo challenge soon

 

I love this phone! I asked my daughter to model so I could take a similar picture with both the point and shoot and my new Nokia. It's a typical poorly-lit living room situation. I used auto on both. The colors from the Nokia are truer-to-life and it's not as noisy when I zoom in. (It *is* noisy at 100% but with that many megapixels, I'm never going to use 100%.)

 

I really, really like it. I didn't expect to like it this much, tbh. I've used iPhones since they were first released in Denmark and I thought it would be weird to use something else, but it's actually really slick. I love the live tiles, so I can see what's coming up on my calendar, what the weather's like, etc. without even opening the apps. I thought it might feel weird to hold because of the lens sticking out of the back, but it hasn't bothered me at all. So I'm very, very happy! It was officially my birthday present from DH and I think I've thanked him every day since I got it.

 

I get giddy every time I take it out of my pocket. Yellow is so happy. I'ma have to look up this PicsArt.