dream up in a hotel bar in Japan by a couple of Nokia White House , theNokia 808 Pureviewphone has completely slip MWC with its 41 - megapixel sensing element . I grabbed some time with Nokia ’s lead programme handler for imaging , Damian Dinning , to chat about how it ’s “ almost like [ they ’ve ] just invented time travel , it ’s that extreme . ”
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Havingalready confirmedthat the companionship ’s looking at transferring the mental imagery capabilities of the 808 Pureview into other Nokia gimmick ( such as Windows Phone 7 French telephone ) , Dinning told us that “ how [ they ] coalesce those features in each gadget may be different , but we ’ll see the same ingredient every clip . ”
One query I really want to ask – along with many of you , I ’m sure – is , “ why Symbian ? ” The technology direct five years to get to the tip of conception to aaaalmost being ready to hit the marketplace ( indeed , Nokia ’s still finely - tuning its low - light detector before its May discharge ) , but instead of delaying it by another year to propel it onto the well - possible OS within Nokia ’s reach , Dinning said they just could n’t imagine delay the technology any longer for its customers , when they can do it today . “ I ca n’t rationalise any benefit to check it for a further year , just so it can campaign Windows Phone 7 , ” he told us , adding that “ if you have something really incredible today , then do it today . ”
It ’s obvious companies are leaning towards top - snick imaging sensors as being their the Nazarene , with the television camera being the crest jewels in the iPhone 4S , and HTC give most of its press conference yesterday to its new camera technology in the One series of phones . Dinning cast away the other manufacturers ’ efforts , say “ what others have been doing is incremental update , but no - one ’s made that step ahead to make a real difference . ”
It ’s the “ pixel - oversampling ” engineering that Nokia ’s agile to boast about , lest anyone thinks they just slap a duad of surplus digits on the sensor size of it , in an obvious stratagem to grab headlines . Taking 41 - megapixel range and scaling down to 5 - megapixels , Dinning tell us the chipset retains all the valuable data about a scene , but “ throws away the stuff you do n’t desire , like noise and unreal information . ” purportedly it excel in low - light because of this pixel - oversampling technical school , but unfortunately I was n’t capable to test that out myself in my abbreviated play with the earpiece . The caller does seem to be very aware that most of its users wo n’t shoot at 41 - megapixels , specially given most photos wind up on Facebook nowadays . Within the veranda app , a Facebook logo upload a picture automatically , at around 2 or 3 - megapixels in size . But you’re able to manually switch over to shoot in a 38 - megapixel mode , which uses eight pixels for every concluding pixel ( in a 5 - megapixel photo anyway ) , to fold in the sort of crisp detail that blew my mind during my demo .
Unfortunately I was n’t allowed to snap any photos with the demo building block I play around with , but in individual , the overall habitus quality was better than the prescribed photos suggested . Mirroring the 710 , it certainly was sparkle at 169grams , but by no means will a placid lineage be made in your pocket . The display , a 4 - column inch AMOLED , was burnished and decipherable regard its 640 x 360 picture element , and the sampling pic shot with the 808 were just unbelievable . Obviously sending professional lensman to South Africa to take your sampling shots make believe a world of difference , but I just could n’t believe the level of item when whizz along in on a photograph scene at just a 5 - megapixel resolution . If our unpaid snaps are half as good as the professional sample shot , then I think most people will be happy with the telephone ’s performance .
It seems even the people at Carl Zeiss , which has worked entirely with Nokia for years on its lens of the eye , are thrill with the public presentation of the 808′s camera . pronounce that just hearing Carl Zeiss state they were “ glad ” with a cameraphone would be more than enough for them , but in this example , they apparently sent Nokia an enthusiastic electronic mail saying that “ the optics are really secure , ” and even affixed it with a smiley - face emoticon . Quite incongruous for the magnificently - grumpy Germans , I ’m sure you ’ll concord .
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