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Well, Lil'bit talk about N8 after yesterday was played with it for while

1.Impressive superbly fast focus locked less than my blink and quick capturing shoot less than 2 secs per shot.

2.Anodize aluminum body really good built and light weight actually it was 135 grams but I felt it light than my SATIO that 126 grams and it was real fine when hold it hand.

body was locked up with knot look easily noticeable though isn't deal breaker but doesn't look nice too

3.Camera UI isn' pretty as SATIO but more adjustable features but bit sluggish maybe I need sometime to get used to
Switching between still image and video capture is really fast less than 10 secs prompt to use

4.Multi-Touch in Symbian is available here but damn it isn't really useful much as others model have it
need lot of optimizing I will not give verdict today until final product launch one month at least

5.Impressive running up to 6-8 programs at same time without lagging noticeable Ovi maps included one of that.
But Overall UI is still unattractive to me anyway less change as s60v5 but home screen have up to 5 page with smooth transition

6.Keyboard has newly revamp too didn't have time to try much because lot of people wait after me

If you want monster of camera and good maps navigator (I did not mean Ovi really!) under 450€ afaik price-tag goes for it.

p.s. Iphone 4 LED Flash maybe one of powerful LED today almost 2 meters and with close range flash really helpful one
If I did not get 3Gs last year Iphone 4 will today as single unit with powerful-all rounder and flash light as I expected
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Posted: 2010-10-01 09:57:04
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Today Engadget posted a shootout between the N8 and the iPhone 4 here. Full size crops and video samples also available. Quite interesting actually. Overall I'd say the N8 is better but not with a wide margin. Here is one of the samples:


One more:


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Posted: 2010-10-01 10:11:01
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If you got to that article coments it´s fun to see Nokia fanboys struggling to accept the N8 camera does not trump iPhone4´s after all
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Posted: 2010-10-01 11:41:10
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Although I think I prefer the N8 picture above. The iPhone 4 pic of the stone work looks very noisy.
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Posted: 2010-10-01 12:34:22
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that camera comparison is awful, and to me it almost looks like the reviewer went out of his way to make the N8 pics look worse.
On the N8 shots there is lots of camera shake and blurry pics.
Look at the red macro shot of the number 53.. The N8 pic is clearly not in proper focus, yet the Iphone shot is in focus.

and the videos are so over compressed, they both look like crap. N8 video looks miles better than this.
this is a bogus camera comparison to me

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Posted: 2010-10-01 15:02:39
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In color comparison N8 won hand down, Iphone 4 over-contrast and look warm pics which not likely Britain weather...wait for etaab answer this!

In detail, I thought it can't compare because N8 should have better focus, it seem tester didn't get used to enough

N8 was shot at 9Mpx for 16:9 while Iphone 4 was 5Mpx and 4:3 then picture did not swap

though Iphone 4 tester had more time to played with unlike N8
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Posted: 2010-10-01 15:46:09
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These sites´ purposes are only to be the first ones to review the phone. They seem not to be keen on having it complete and extensively reviewed, though.

Take this review, for instance:http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-n8-692448/review?artc_pg=6

This is completely pointless. This person barely knows what EV means. He (or she) even feels good at having lots of highlight clipping in his (or hers) shots, and only relies on Camera Programs to take them.

These reviews doesn´t have nothing of 'scientifical'. A complete review needs to have a complete test of resolved resolution over all the ISO range, as well as a colour chart test. That would precisely indicate the loss of both Colour Saturation and Dynamic Range as the ISO is increased, as well as colour accuracy.

Despite this I cannot help feeling underwhelmed by these N8 shots. They remind me the pictures from k800, k850 and the like... They seem rather pale. That is an indicator of poor Dynamic Range, and that´s quite odd. From what I´ve seen before, I thought it would be quite the opposite. I guess I´ll have to wait a few more reviews of it before giving my final judgment.

Considering that the N8 doesn´t have a cover to protect the lenses, and considering the reputation of these sites when it comes to photography, dirty lenses would hardly be a surprise.

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Posted: 2010-10-01 17:02:26
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look at these 2 N8 videos, and compare to the crap that Engadget is putting out for N8.

just amazing quality.. Engadget is a joke.. they are amateurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIOj19XSOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-v7B74NwUw


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Posted: 2010-10-01 17:34:28
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It´s worse than that. Engadget (and Gizmodo as well) seems to be paid by Apple. They are strongly biased.

Here we´ve got a better look of this situation:

http://mynokiablog.com/2010/1[....]ity-colours-and-higher-detail/

Still needs a lot more samples to see things in a broader perspective, though.

Some more samples:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.co[....]a_N8_part_1_hardware_and_m.php

Just an appetizer (how´s that for detail?)



And this? Almost no colour fringing:



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Posted: 2010-10-01 17:41:05
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I also can present you BETTER iphone 4 photos than Engadget did...here´s a more educated opinion about the iphone 4 camera

http://forums.dpreview.com/fo[....]sp?forum=1017&message=35873345

No one is saying the iphone 4, not being a dedicated cameraphone like the n8, produces better photos than the n8...it´s just that the difference isn´t huge like Nokia and it´s folowers wanted us to believe...add a crap OS over that and the n8 looks less attractive

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Posted: 2010-10-01 17:55:13
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