On my way back from hospital where I am doing my orthopaedic clinical rotations this weekend I took a break and sat down near a river where I wanted to spend sometime exclusively alone thinking of nothing. I did manage to take a few shots with my N95 8GB but as I was watching the water flow, with a calm breeze having that hint of scent of the brackish H2O cycling down my tracheobronchial tree I suddenly realised there are a whole lot of things in a today’s Smartphone which we hardly use. So keeping these in mind I decided to write about them here. I would begin with the one that I feel is the least used feature here in all of India. Any guesses…? Well, it’s none other than the Secondary Camera on your high end Symbian S60 devices.

To be honest the last time I checked it was when I got hold of my new device. May be I just wanned to make sure if it worked . Now after half a year I have not used it at all. Wonder what it is doing there. Yes I know that it can be used to make video calls, but here in India there is no cellular network service provider that offers such a feature. If you guys know how then please do correct me but here is India there is no way you can make a video call using your S60 device. So when I bought the device I was pretty excited to have this feature but soon I realized that this had no use for me. I don’t know if any of you use it or not but if you do then please make a mention here as I would love to know how you all are using it .

Why are we discussing this, well simply because when I heard that E63 had been officially announced I quickly ran down its specifications to find out that it didn’t have Secondary Camera. That was something I first didn’t understand but soon I figured out that it totally was acceptable as it was practically not being used anyway. Thus, a smart approach by Nokia to give people a set of basic features which are routinely used along with amazing build quality at the same time ensuring to keep the product more affordable. Kudos!

Following is a shot with the secondary camera of my N95 8GB. More on the Phontography Blog. Do check them out.

So have you been using these devices with a secondary camera? Have you managed to click some amazing pictures with it? I remember a model using it to check her hair-style but that’s all.

So fellas, join in the Phontoraphy Revolution. If you still haven’t used the secondary camera, don’t worry. Here is your chance to show your work. Simply send in your best shots to gomcoite.Phontography.mobile@share.ovi.com and after moderation it will be put up on our Phontography blog . Check out the Phontography blog for more info or click here.