Whole lotta pixels!
Size might not matter, but when size is also smart it does matter, indeed! I mean, how would you like to capture the structure of an ice crystal in a casual photoshoot with your phone? Does it sound intriguing? Here we are talking about megapixels. The new smartphone from Finland, Nokia 808 Pure View, has 41 of them. Yep, you got it: 41 megapixels.
The well-schooled guys out there know, though, that resolution means nothing without lenses and overall quality of the camera. And here comes the smart of Nokia Pure View. Not only does Nokia partner with Carl Zeiss for its phones’ lenses, which is pretty impressive, anyway. It’s the whole sampling process.
The smart sampling of Nokia Pure View
What nokia pure view does is shrinking 7px sampling into one single pixel. This allowed the Finnish engineers to achieve stunning picture quality, incredible details, much depth and, most importantly, a very low noise level.
This amazing sampling technique allows you to zoom 4x without affecting the quality of the photo. You can also take videos at 1080p and zoom 3p in; and you can zoom up to 6x when filming at 720p. Nokia Pure View is also the first Nokia phone to record in high-definition, also supporting Dolby Digital Plus.
41 Megapixels and beyond
Talking about hardware, this new smartphone has a 1.3GHz single core chip and a ram of 512MB. Not much, compared to superpowerful quad-core smartphone these days. Still, this was a by Nokia, that – unlike some of its fancier competitors – aimed at keeping things simple, without affecting the smooth and fast experience hand-on.
This minimalist outlook ensures the prices to be well under control when nokia pure view comes to the shelves in May 2012. The selling price is rumored to be around 450$, which, considering the multimedia assets of this phone, is a pretty intriguing deal.
The letdown
The letdown is that the phone will run on Symbian OS. As you might have heard, Nokia has already announced that by 2016 the production of Symbian phones will come to an end. This means not only that software updates will cease, but also that developers won’t spend much time in building apps for the Ovi store.
Given the ever growing importance other developers such as Apple and Google are putting into app marketplaces, the decision to run the nokia pure view on Symbian sounds somehow dumb.
Anyway recent reviews of the latest Symbian version, named Belle, all give it a thumb up. It is much faster and the look and feel has improved quite a lot. Hopefully Nokia Pure View won’t be much harmed by this choice by Nokia.
Are you ready to be stunned?
Whatever the OS, anyway, the multimedial experience of Nokia Pure View will surely be worth every single cent. Mobile camera lovers are advised.
If you really wanna say “ooh”, jump at minute 1:35 of the video below. You’ll be amazed, I promise.
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Social marketing websites, private web sites, texting and the camera phone. What young person doesn't use any or all of these. I am going to make many individuals indignant with this next statement. I actually accept that all cell phones should get banned from school, with the sole exception of maybe during lunch. Why would I make such a statement? Let’s begin with the folks. The very first thing out of their mouth will be, how am I going to get in communication with my children in an emergency? My come back to that is the same way you did before the cellular telephone. Call the school, make them privy to the situation.
Then the college can give permission for the student to depart. For a student to leave the high school grounds without the faculties knowledge or authorization brings up so many Problems, not to mention the legal issues. The scholar leaves the high-school grounds. The other parent or maybe law enforcement calls the college. Now the school has no awareness of the where the student could be. On the way home the coed gets a participant in an accident.
You do not even need to become involved in this legal crag mire. Another story and this is occurring today in more faculties than you wish to know about. Ask your kids about this. Today is test day. One buddy takes the test first. The other friend is somewhere personal. The test taker texts the friend asking for a reply to a question, the friend texts the answer . How fair is this to the remainder of the scholar body or even to the two friends? One might say why was the teacher not more observant? I say why should the teacher be trying to find this type of cheating or better yet why should the teacher even be concerned about cheating? Now for the best, the camera telephone.
This is in my view, one of the most dangerous items in the hands of scholars and anybody willing to comprise themselves or any other person. For who knows what reason 2 students become angry with each other. Gym class, one student takes one or two photographs. A My Space site is formed. The footage are loaded to this site together with a few choice words.
Now the rep of this one student is forever damaged. This is what's known as cyber bullying. “Once online always on the internet”. Here is another and rather frightful example and it's going down today. A girl takes one or two photos of herself, nude or partly naked. She sends them to her boyfriend. He likes it. They breakup and somehow the photographs appear on the internet.
Maybe a student happens to get into a compromising situation, say because of alcohol. Someone takes 1 or 2 photos and puts them online. Reputations are ruined, not to mention the undeniable fact that these scholars are now part of the legal system.
It is unlawful to possess or distribute sexually candid photos of minors. Technology is great. It could also be dangerous to your safety and security. You as the parent have the duty and the responsibility to guard your children. Make it known to your youngsters that you will be monitoring their networking web sites and their PC use. They might think this spying, who owns the house? Respect goes all ways.