Introduced in 2008, the Sony Ericsson Xmini is a tiny Walkman series phone known for its basic music functions, including a 1.8-inch TFT display, 8-megapixel camera and 4GB internal memory. https://t.co/uX8dCbw1ca
Introduced in 2008, the Sony Ericsson Xmini is a tiny Walkman series phone known for its basic music functions, including a 1.8-inch TFT display, 8-megapixel camera and 4GB internal memory. https://t.co/uX8dCbw1ca
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
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the a7 II (which lacks a full electronic shutter for silent shooting).
David D. Busch • David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R II/a7 II Guide to Digital Photography
This very small camera comes equipped with a 1”- type sensor, which is twice as large as the sensor in the Fujifilm X10, and more than twice as large as those in many other small cameras in this class. The RX100 boasts 20.2 megapixels of effective resolution, and has a 3-inch (7.6-cm) LCD display with more than 1,000,000 pixels of resolution.
