just saw this qx100, yes thats the type i wanted. they made it as an accessory. It has everything in it with sensor and tons of other stuff, for around 400$.
Now, what i was suggesting was just to add the zoom lens to the camera grip, now thats not too far stretched.
Qx100 looks like a really cool concept - porting over RX100 m2's camera module & lens - and using the smartphone to do the processing. But just look at the bulk of it! It really could be a half-baked concept, or a big mass hit at this stage- It all depends on how they market it. But from what I've seen so far, it sounds like a few Sony creative / engineers had one too many pints. "Why don't we just glue the RX100 onto a phone"?! They say. Sony's had a track record to try these "out of box" things, think their high end headphones, smartwatch. You hear about it before launch, it sounds great on paper - but then you never see it again! It's just Sony seem to have TOO many ideas which in turn becoming MANY products - linked by their often proprietary ecosystem. Unfortunately they've not built a service based platform like Apple / Google, that makes people want to buy each product in their ecosystem. They've compartmentalised each product for a segment, great. But in terms of all-in-one imaging flagship phone, they're still a mess, even their upcoming rumored photo flagship is said to have a small 1/2.3 sensor.
Whereas Nokia seems to know what people really want, that the consumer wants good quality photo from practical device they will always have on them. Their engineers have simplified a relative large sensor, OIS into 1020. With QX100, you might as well get a standalone RX100 & keep your phone - unless the price is really attractive. Because it looks like QX100 has a big practical trade-off, it needs to be mounted onto the phone. (Takes time to clip it together, miss photos, you sure as heck aren't gonna answer a call with that module attached!) Imagine if you're in a concert / gig - trying to attach QX100 onto your iPhone in the dark - Nokia 1020 suddenly looks SO much more elegant.
Unlike the messy S4 Zoom though - QX100 will offer as good image quality as you can get on a phone in theory, and is said to be OS agnostic - there will be definitely be people paying a premium to have the best possible photo experience without a 2nd device; the question is if QX100 is seen as a practical extension of their phone, or a second device. Sony internally has many divisions each pushing its products, and each product seems to have a relative price to not upset their ecosystem - QX10/100 would do well to challenge that, by launching at decent prices / but I really doubt it at this stage. Obviously, the price is also crucial, it has to be lower than RX100 (but not so cheap that it cannibalise RX100's sale); because as it is, a RX100 is more expensive than many older entry DSLR in the UK. (E.g. 600D, etc) Still - whatever price it launches at, subtract it from RX100's cost - and you get the value added of your smartphone. Gonna keep an eye on that.
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