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- Lumia 1520 camera performance review
- ArsTechnica responds to The Guardian – Fork off, “Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android”
- Lumiappdates: Nokia Story Teller Beta, access point, 6tag, 6snap
- Guardian’s Charles Arthur recommends that Nadella scap WP, go with forked Android
- Nokia and HTC Settle Legal Disputes; Promise to Play Nice
Lumia 1520 camera performance review Posted: 08 Feb 2014 06:08 PM PST I‘ve always used a Nokia as my camera, I’ve never owned a stand alone camera, and over the years, Nokia kept giving me reasons not to buy one. I never had the cash or the heart to buy a Lumia 1020 because I already had the 808, so when the Lumia 1520 came with its full HD screen, high internal specs and inbuilt wireless charging, I couldn’t say no, I had to sell three phones to cover its cost. So do I regret it? Does the camera live up to its Pureview name? lets find out. Camera specs:
Advantages & shortcomings:
Photosamples:It was early in the morning the sky was filled with clouds with the sun struggling to shine in, an HDR shot meant I could show both how cool the sky looked and the red bike. HDR Photo Camera remain one of my best purchase choices, it deserved every penny, and its responsible for the HDR shot above. Refocus can be used creatively to take impossible shots, Using the option: “all in focus” makes photographing challenging textures a rewarding experience. Its shots like the above that makes me excited about what Lytro technologies might bring to smartphones in the future. If a camera had a signature it would be its Bokeh effect, Look at the far away branches, it’s a creamy almost oil paint Bokeh that transcends the quality of close up shots to another level.
* A silhouette is a picture where the subjects in it are made of a solid single colored shapes usually black.
You may not know it but using a big screen makes framing photos a lot easier, the built in grids in Nokia Camera is a welcome addition. I know the above park is nothing special but I used to play in this park twenty years ago as a kid and as such it represents so much more for me.
I’m hopeful that Nokia will out grow the 5mp limit and use a higher mp count, specially since they look awful on a 1080p screen once you zoom even a little bit. At night the Lumia 1520 didn’t manage to impress me all that much, as the Lumia 920 produced way brighter scenes. I was all but ready to quit on the night photo shoot, I was cold and without a single good shoot out of 10! I just love the colors in this shot! I lowered the brightness just a bit to add a little bit of a dramatic effect. I always maintained the theory that my Lumia 920 takes better picture in 4:3 aspect ratio, it made sense to me that OIS would work better in a square like situation where it can control wobbling from all directions while it would be a lot harder for it to compensate vertical wobbles in a 16:9 picture. ( I would love it if anyone could back this theory up or disprove it.)
This master piece hotel was a nice subject to shoot, perhaps I’ll revisit it soon for some close up shots. Photography needs lots of planing ahead, I really should have came at 3 am to photograph this hotel it would’ve looked a lot better. Cuteview Summing it all up:Overall the Nokia Lumia 1520 is one of the best Photography phones out there, its big screen and exclusive Nokia apps like StoryTeller beta will give it an edge no other camera phone could match, the huge battery is still bigger than the Lumia 1020 battery + Camera grip Cover battery, the excellent mics and strong speakers will make for a good family experiences, the raw file option and the microSD slot will satisfy editing geeks, So when it comes to photography I would recommend the 1520 over the Lumia 1020 any time.
Thanks for reading, If you’re looking for a full review of the Lumia 1520 check our own @AliQudsi Review of it, also check Jay’s unboxing of the red Lumia 1520 too.
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Posted: 08 Feb 2014 08:03 AM PST Peter Bright from ArsTechnica responds to Charles Arthur’s suggestion on The Guardian that Microsoft should fork Android. Why? It’s unworkable. He says you can have compatibility or control but not both. Google has worked to make Android unworkable. For those who might bring in Amazon, Peter discusses those shortcomings too. In the grand scheme of things, forking Android may turn out to be even bigger work for MS and Nokia.
Cheers Marc for the tip |
Lumiappdates: Nokia Story Teller Beta, access point, 6tag, 6snap Posted: 08 Feb 2014 07:55 AM PST Not much in the way of a changelog but the following have been updated:
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Guardian’s Charles Arthur recommends that Nadella scap WP, go with forked Android Posted: 08 Feb 2014 06:02 AM PST The Guardian’s Technology Editor is giving Satya Nadella some advice. Scrap WP and instead, go with a forked Android.
Charles finds that despite WP’s growth, it’s still much too slow and insignificant. The advice is akin to Nokia dumping Symbian. Dump WP, and then save on the development costs. Whilst forking Android wouldn’t be a trivial issue, it may be easier than the WP pursuit. Nadella said they’d be a mobile and cloud first company. They’d ruthlessly remove any obstacles to innovation. Microsoft would focus on things Microsoft is good at and can uniquely bring. Windows never really took off in mobile. So it wasn’t something MS was good at. Perhaps that means WP could be culled? Then again, Windows is MS’s bread and butter. RT is getting closer and closer to being ready for mobile.
I guess, Xbox was also late to the party right? What if MS had given up then? On top of the external challenges WP and Nokia have faced, one of the biggest obstacles to innovation is Microsoft itself. Like, seriously, who takes this long to do the simplest things? Those are some bad lessons MS took from Nokia. In related news, Steve Wozniak wants Apple to make Android phones.
I guess the only way Microsoft boardroom would consider Android is to truly ‘fork it up’ by being successful in their own right. Ecosystem, ecosystem, ecosystem right? :p Cheers spacemodel for the tip! |
Nokia and HTC Settle Legal Disputes; Promise to Play Nice Posted: 08 Feb 2014 04:17 AM PST
The agreement also states that Nokia and HTC will work together in the future to explore future technology collaboration opportunities, what this means exactly isn’t very clear; but perhaps Nokia are looking for a new devices and services division to put their R&D work into? (one can only hope). The full details of the agreement are confidential, but we can expect that Nokia made a pretty penny off this deal (and will probably continue to); read the full press release at the link below.
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