A Smartphone With a Smarter Camera | Product Reviews | Wired.com
Stopping short of turning me into Diane Arbus, this is exactly what a camera phone should do — leverage software to create a simple (yet powerful) point-and-shoot experience.The Slide’s hardware is a big part of this equation too. HTC took a page from the pro-sumer playbook and beefed up the phone’s imaging guts. Like the EVO 4G and the iPhone 4, the Slide incorporates a back-illuminated image sensor and throws in a wide f/2.2 lens to boot. In addition to some wide angle action, this arrangement allows for more light to hit the sensor, thus producing the better low-light images.For the most part, the Slide followed through. Night shots of Oakland’s skyline looked crisp and showed minimal graininess.
