In what can only be described as the strangest tech announcement in recent memory:
Panasonic has announced that the next version of its Lumix DMC-CM1 smartphone will dispense with its phone functionality to concentrate on being a camera. The Lumix DMC-CM10 will initially only be available in Japan, and is very much the same as the original DMC-CM1, but while it will run on the Android 5.0 operating system it will not be equipped to make phone calls.
Don’t despair, though, this gadget will still IM to the max.
Fascinating, though I expect this is less curmudgeonly than you suggest. Yes, it’s more a camera than a phone, but can still be sold as a phone because text is the more important “phone” feature anyway.
Was this posted just to annoy agodon7965
I think Lumix was a camera way before it was a phone – so it’s a case of a product reverting to a form closer to its historical form (ditching some of the bells & whistles).