The HTC Touch Pro not only comes with lots of amazing features, but it also includes a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with flash.
I had always thought that pictures taken with phones were worthless because the picture quality was horrible and the resolution was too low. However, the Touch Pro totes a semi-decent camera compared to todays standards.
I wouldn't use it to take wedding pictures, but it would work perfectly fine for snapping pictures of documents (text is readable with the camera), online auction photos, pictures for a forum, etc.
Below are two sample pictures taken with the Touch Pro camera at the highest settings. Click on the pictures to view the photos in their full resolution.
One feature of the camera that people will either love or hate is the autofocus. While it does take a second or two to focus, the pictures come out relatively clear with no blurring. However, because the autofocus takes a few seconds, getting a quick shot of something interesting won't be as easy.
While the camcorder isn't up to par with the video capabilities of stand alone digital cameras, it's not half as bad either.
The framerate isn't horrendous like previous generations of Windows Mobile smartphones, however, it isn't quite 30FPS (frames per second).
Sample of footage taken from the Touch Pro camcorder is below. The video was taken inside of my office at my university where smoke was pouring out of the Arts and Sciences building, which I thought was pretty cool.
NOTE: The video has been re-encoded from .3gp to .flv (flash). There was no framerate loss, but the video resolution was enlarged by about 20% so the video is a little more pixelated than it would be.
Also, because of the re-encoding, there was a slight decrease in audio quality (sounds more "tin can" like), but it's very close to what it actually sounds like on the Touch Pro.
