The smartphone with a microscope camera - arriving at last

[FrankMCT]

@danielcahen

Yes, a gimmick for an expensive phone. The overall trend for smartphones has been to incorporate the functions of what used to be stand-alone devices. I don’t know if there will be an incentive for phone makers to improve on this technology and for it to become a standard feature but that would be an additional step in the direction of a single device doing always more things well (without accessories).

I’m wondering, where is the end of this trend? A lot of stand-alone devices are still better and cheaper than the high-tech “integration” to an expensive phone. And what about scopes? There are a lot of perfect pocket microscopes(Levenhuk, Carson’s like this one) which got magnification up to 250x and come with the adapter clip that lets you easily take and share photos of the specimens or samples that you are viewing. For $20 only and we don’t need to purchase smth else