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- Nokia 808 PureView beats all in GSM Arena’s blind camera test by huge margin of votes
- Nokia 808 PureView vs Canon EOS 5D Mk III, Nikon D800, Sony Alpha 85/77
- Lumiappaday #215: CoolApps demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
- GSM Arena, Blind Test revealed.
- Video: Nokia Lumia 610 Disassembly & Assembly – Screen and Case
- Update: OpenMobile “dilligently working” to bring ACL to N9
| Nokia 808 PureView beats all in GSM Arena’s blind camera test by huge margin of votes Posted: 17 Jun 2012 04:38 PM PDT
The contenders were revealed a few hours ago but it was not yet clear who the mass public preferred, based simply on the quality of the photos.
By a huge margin of votes, the Nokia 808 PureView wins. GSM Arena previously stated that some people found it difficult to distinguish between the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone and the micro-four-thirds, Olympus. Now in this test, the blind nature means people were choosing the best picture, as opposed to merely voting for their favourite phone out of bias. Without knowing what camera took what picture (for definite) people were choosing based on which camera performed the best and produced the best photo for them. Thus the voting is not like all the other times we might have asked to to go vote for a Nokia, just because it’s Nokia. This was voted based on quality and performance – no ties to any brand. As I noted before, I liked E the best as it was the clearest and most natural looking to me but I did think at one point that it was the dedicated micro-four-thirds and not the phone, 808 because I was expecting the micro-four-thirds dedicated advanced compact to be the clear winner. It isn’t the case.
Let me add Damian’s reaction tweet again:
N8 coming just above the OneX is a surprise. Perhaps it’s because the N8′s pics were down sampled to 8MP. (Update: Ah, it appears they just counted pictures of number 1 preference, hence why quite rightly N8 did not get as much votes as 808 or E-PL2. But it doesn’t make sense why folks had voted the clearly worse pictures at the top :/) Cheers Aymen for the tip!
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| Nokia 808 PureView vs Canon EOS 5D Mk III, Nikon D800, Sony Alpha 85/77 Posted: 17 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT
Here’s another comparison, this time there are no other camera phones, just some big guns. Canon EOS 5D Mk III, Nikon D800, Sony Alpha 850 and Sony Alpha 77. I think the 808 certainly holds its own. Remember, this is a phone that fits in your pocket. I’ve got some comparison samples from my 60D against 808 but I’d like to do more rigorous testing with that. From my own results there were surprising occasions too when 808 not only held its own but produced better images – but again I want to test this out more. They’ve also compared it to what they say are the two best compacts from Sony and Canon and come out with:
at ISO 400 up to 1600.
It’s no longer about 808 vs other camera phones anymore. I think the only reason you’d want to compare other camera phones now is too see how close they can be to the 808. Cheers fneuf for the tip!
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| Lumiappaday #215: CoolApps demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 17 Jun 2012 02:45 PM PDT
App Discovery is almost as important as having the great apps there in the first place. Marketplace does an OK job of recommending apps to its users but it could be better. That’s why I go through a range of other routes as well, includings apps like App Highlights and App Flow to find more apps to try. Now I might not be your typical user always looking for apps to share but I think Joe Average and co will find something like this useful. The panels include 1) cool stuff, 2) apps, 3) games and 4) getting started. Clicking on an app immediately opens up marketplace so you can find out more about it and download it. There’s a button to ‘recommend an app’ which will let you mail the developer. Not sure how frequently this is updated but there are definitely some apps there that I haven’t seen yet and I’ll be sharing in future.
#215) CoolApps
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 8 Usability: 9 Performance: 9 Price: 10
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| GSM Arena, Blind Test revealed. Posted: 17 Jun 2012 11:07 AM PDT
The results are in for GSM Arena’s blind test. The point for such blind tests is really to see what pictures came out best, not playing the guessing game of what device took what based on known performance.
I really liked ‘E’ the best and thought it was PureView until I remembered that the Olympus PEN E-PL2 was also in the mix. Surprisingly E was PureView, correctly guessed by many of our readers. Sharpness, low noise, detail are fantastic – but the colours by default do tend to be a little cooler. Quite fairly, CDB was were the worst performing.
That’s quite a feat when people find it difficult to distinguish between a camera phone and an Olympus Micro Four Thirds camera. GSM Arena is still compiling the results of the users preferences. It would be a shame if any of C, D, or B appears in the top 3. Previously the N8 also demolished an advanced compact megazoom. It’s great to see Nokia with the 808 continue putting up a great challenge to dedicated cameras. Now you can plainly see why ‘Nokia Rabid Fanboys’ may get a little annoyed when some people try to say that 808 vs iPhone 4S are equal or it that it’s personal preference which one has a better camera. Clearly no. That’s like saying it’s personal preference whether a Bugatti Veyron is faster than a VW Beetle. Nokia is comfortably taking the imaging crown here against all other camera phones. No contest. It’s a little unfair perhaps for such comparison on that category. Cheers efekt for the tip. Update: Check out Damian’s response :p Remember when Olympus folks said this 41mp PureView stuff was nonsense. LOL. How about results speaking for themselves
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 610 Disassembly & Assembly – Screen and Case Posted: 17 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT |
| Update: OpenMobile “dilligently working” to bring ACL to N9 Posted: 17 Jun 2012 12:54 AM PDT
So one of the first posts I put out after being an author on MNB, was that the N9 would have access to Android apps, through Myriad’s Alien Dalvik. Well, that went belly up, rumoured to be due to Nokia refusing to financially support their effort. And let’s face it, why would Nokia pay for someone to bring an ecosystem to their device, that they won’t profit from. (Except of course that maybe the device will have sold more). Then, we heard that OpenMobile was bringing their own version known as ACL (App Compatibility Layer). News on that front went silent, except that it was being pushed for Tizen. At the beginning of the month, I tweeted to them about what was going on. They replied with a blog post. All the blog post simply said was that they were working on ACL for MeeGo and posted up the video below. Of course, MeeGo and MeeGo-Harmattan are two different platforms. Raising the question, will it work on the N9?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zTgo2GuNsY8 Moments ago, I was having a look again, and noticed they have replied to user comments regarding the N9, earlier in the week.
From this at least we have some new hope that ACL will be making it to the N9 some time soon. Source: OpenMobile
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It does produce great pictures, it does contribute to quality, it is making a difference in performance.
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