Hi Guy
It seems cameras will have a SIM card slot soon we will be able to make phone call with out MFT cameras as well.Look at this cool thing from Samsung
Cheers

Samsung announces Galaxy Camera hybrid camera with Android 4.1 OS: Digital Photography Review

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Fuji X100 Black LE

Looks like the camera functions similar to a tablet, won't be able to make phone calls. Backs up photos to the cloud and allows nearly instantaneous sharing. Interesting. Wonder what battery life is like.

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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words." Ansel Adams

That's quite the display it has!

I am, at this point, a bit iffy toward the new in-app camera operating systems. I guess I assume that the more the camera can do that's unrelated to actual photography, the more I have to learn and the more overlap I'll have with my phone.

I suppose, now that they've convinced us that we need a tablet in addition to our phones (or have they?), they now need to convince us that an app-based camera is necessary as well. All seems a tad redundant, but not surprising.

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Panasonic Lumix 45-175mm F4-5.6

I guess for those who don't do much (or any?) post-processing of their photos, this is a desirable feature. But, for someone like me, that likes to post-process before sharing anything, this kind of feature doesn't mean much.

Call me a Luddite, but I like a phone to be a phone, and a camera to be a camera. This merging of devices frankly has never appealed to me. (Jack of all Trades, Master of none...)

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If it runs Android and has a microphone and speaker, then you can make phone calls. There's an app for that.

Looks a lot like a WB150F. Hopefully it has better IQ.

These are probably useful to do live coverage of events.. and for teenagers to improve their profile pictures and status updates.