Google may not see a need for
a big camera on a tablet, but smartphones are another beast entirely; maybe Google will try to bring the kind of imaging quality we see on the Nokia PureView 808 to Android.
Not exact matches
The screen is a whole 10.1 - inch, 1080p's worth of
big deal, and with an 8MP
camera on the back accompanying a 1.3 MP
camera on the front, this Ice Cream Sandwich
tablet is going to be anything but vanilla.
For this, Amazon is reported to have abandoned several
tablet features such as integrated
cameras along with limits for
on - board storage and accessories, and is instead focusing
on a simplistic
tablet PC that will have the cost advantage against many if its
big ticket rivals.
The back - facing
camera on the Prime can also shoot video in 1080p, a
big step up from the Transformer TF101 and other Android
tablets that only shoot in 720p.
Moving
on to the
camera chapter, we are faced with the first
big disappointment, considering that the
tablet comes with a 1.3 MP front - facing
camera and no rear - facing
camera.
However, the
big question is whether you need that sort of
camera performance
on a
tablet - as the Hauwei contains full phone functionality, it could be your sole device as a phablet, whereas the Nexus 7 is likely to be a companion to a smartphone that's more capable in the imaging department.