Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview 178
MojoKid writes "Nokia, perhaps more-so than any other smartphone manufacturer in the game right now, needed to find a way to make something special. The new Nokia Lumia 1020, though it sports essentially the same internals and display as Nokia's Lumia 920, most definitely is different, and perhaps even an attractive alternative, depending on your specific needs. 41 megapixels of resolution, floating image stabilization and a powerful camera app to back it up, will make the Lumia 1020 pretty 'special' to some people, some of whom might be considering a Windows Phone for the first time as a result. Initial impressions of the device and its camera performance, show Nokia's new flagship device does shoot impressive still images and video, thanks in part to the Lumia 1020's image sensor and stabilization features. Nokia's Pro Cam app is comprised of a slick dial interface that offers virtually all of the controls you'd find in a DSLR camera. From White Balance, to ISO, Focus, Exposure and Flash Control, it's all in there. When you snap a picture, the 1020's camera grabs two versions of the shot; a large full resolution (7700x4300, roughly) shot with a huge 11MB file size is captured and an additional 5MP image is derived from that and stored as well. The results, especially in decent lighting, can be impressive."
Only Problem (Score:4, Interesting)
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With its pastel colors and overly-animated interface, it looks like they got the inspiration by watching Technicolor cartoons and browsing web pages from 1996.
This seems to be a misconception fueled by all the WP ads out there. Your home screen can be however you like it, your tiles don't have to form a rainbow and flip every second. I use a Windows Phone and I am perfectly happy with it, my home screen is simple and updates automatically to display notifications, weather and the latest headlines. The beauty of WP is that everyone's home screen is his/her own, so it's hard to pick up a friend's phone and appreciate the utility of the home screen. Try using one fo
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Integration with OSX (Score:3)
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It doesn't share any information with Google.
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So how do you email a contact that you have on your phone with your laptop? Do you turn to your iPhone and type the email there?
Re:Integration with OS (Score:2)
Could'a had an Android (Score:5, Interesting)
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It wouldn't have existed, since Nokia would be bankrupt without the financial help of Microsoft.
Re:Could'a had an Android (Score:5, Informative)
It wouldn't have existed, since Nokia would be bankrupt without the financial help of Microsoft.
A lie does not become truth if you just repeat it all the time. We keep hearing this all the time "Nokia was losing money" "Nokia's customers were abandoning it" "Nokia would have gone bankrupt". The truth:
If they did nothing they could afford to quietly and silently develop an Android phone far better than the ones Samsung puts out. It was announcing the decision to move to Windows phone and the cost of that change which killed Nokia. Not their past successful products.
Everybody Makes Money from Android (Score:2)
Probably not much. No one but Samsung is making any real money selling Android phones.
Hold on it could have been Samsung making real money!!(sic) Nokia was four times the size of Samsung, who make more than even Apple(who lets be honest don't make as much as they used to), but that does not mean other companies are raking it in. Samsung have done well by producing great phones...can Nokia not make great phones?
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No one but Samsung is making any real money selling Android phones.
Only on Slashdot. In the real world, that's just old FUD, and the market is competitive amd dynamic.
Apple versus Samsung passe': Smartphone rivals like LG, Sony gain on leaders
Samsung is now more profitable than Apple, according to second-quarter financial results released by Samsung on Friday in Seoul, South Korea. But while the two rivals have successively one-upped each other with ever sleeker, more technologically sophisticated phones, new competition is stirring.
The combined share of the worldwide smartphone market controlled by Apple and Samsung slipped to 43 per cent in the second quarter from 49 per cent a year earlier, IDC, a research firm, reported Friday.
Some of the companies chipping away at the leaders are familiar names trying comebacks, like Sony, Nokia and HTC. Others are relative newcomers, like LG of South Korea and Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei of China.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-27/news/40833643_1_samsung-electronics-smartphone-market-strategy-analytics [indiatimes.com]
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And your proof is that Samsung made more profit than Apple?
Apple held the lead for over 5 years. Since the original iPhone, Apple's profits in the mobile sector (that included dumbphones and featurephones as well) has been over 50%, and at one point, 75%+. 3 out of every 4 dollars made went to Apple.
Now, Nokia was raking in tons more cash (re
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Yeah. Nokia had the hardware but got left way behind on the OS.
Then Samsung introduced those gorgeous screens in the S2, Galaxy Nexus and subsequent phones, and Nokia weren't even competing on the hardware.
Apple changed the game on the OS side, Samsung brought together the hardware/OS combo, Nokia signed a deal with Microsoft.
My n900 may be the last Nokia phone I ever buy.
iOS laggy OS (Score:2)
It would be useless due to its bloated Nokia skin (requiring a quad core CPU to run smoothly) plus all the god awful Nokia apps.
Running android on a single core phone. Smooth as silk. Maybe you mean iOS; These are apple customers complaining about lag https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4317962?start=30&tstart=0 [apple.com] . The bottom line is quad-core means you can run more powerful programs in android.
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Seems to me that choppy response is a standard Android complaint, particularly from those who do not have quad core. Those weren't Apple customers complaining about lag, either, they were older device customers complaining about performance after iOS upgrades. Cores are not the problem there.
Of course, quad core means worse battery life as well, along with slower recharge times that come with the larger batteries.
Funny how people seek out information to confirm their prejudices.
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The pervasive stutter in Android rendering has all but disappeared since at least 3 versions of Android ago back in the ICS era.
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Meh (Score:3, Insightful)
That's too many pixels for a sensor that size.
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Nokia is feeding on naive consumers who believe the myth that more pixels is automatically better. If you look at their marketing information they drive that fact down your throat. Pixel size and distance between pixel sites has much more to do with image quality than the number of pixels.
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No, no, it wouldn't. You do understand the concept of "super-sampling", don't you? They knock out a ton of noise by oversampling the image. Lowering the pixel count to make the pixel sites bigger doesn't really benefit that significantly when we're talking about a sensor this small. But adding more pixels, and then averaging them together, yields a big win in terms of picture quality, and even professional observers (of which you're clearly not) can tell that the quality gained from oversampling is signific
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Yeah... but when you do the maths, you find that actually, even under the best case scenario the optics will put a hard limit on performances (the MTF fall-off is *really* significant for their sampling). I am not convinced that this is the optimal point (set of characteristics if you prefer) for the sampling (AKA the optimal point in the trade-off between resolution, MTF fall-off and sensor SNR, "Signal to Noise Ratio").
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So you still don't understand it. Supersampling is not about anything to do with the lens and the goal at the end is not to have a 41megapixel image, but a lower resolution, sharper (since you're closer to your lens limit not further), and most importantly highly noise free image.
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This is just not true at all. In low light conditions shrinking the pixels will produce higher noise results. Additionally this is way too many pixels to have any effect resolution-wise. It's a marketing gimmick, pure and simple. If there was any validity to your argument, then why do real DSLR cameras typically max out around 15-20 megapixels even though their sensors are substantially larger than this one?
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Read up on supersampling. You still don't get it. Yes you have higher noise than with a lower pixel count but the noise grain is finer, you can apply basic averaging to get the noise back down to near what you got with the single larger pixels, but then you also get to apply intelligent noise reduction. The result universally favours oversampling in all cases except scientific research where the resultant data is no longer deterministic.
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I prefer the htc one philosophy. Lower res, great performance in low light, less stress of the cpu.
A larger surface for the sensor does the denoising and oversampling itself.
Nice to have the best possible camera hw in a phone, but for many real world applications a bigger lens solves all your problems. Mirrorless and DSLRs won't go away soon.
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A larger surface for the sensor does the denoising and oversampling itself.
No it does improve SNR by capturing more photons. Oversampling is the result of a higher pixel count which is what the Lumina is doing here. Also in practical terms better results can be achieved in low light via sampling and CPU intensive tasks than by physical sensor construction (all other technology remaining equal).
To put it simply if Nokia sold this as a 10mpxl camera without the ability to take a 40megapixel shot we'd all be discussing how great it's performance is not how silly the megapixel "myth"
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You do realize that the size of the pixels on the 1020 are about the same as those on the iPhone5 and the Galaxy S4?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7142/some-thoughts-about-the-lumia-1020-camera-system [anandtech.com]
Sort of invalidates your entire rant.
why are you comparing it to a real camera? (Score:3, Insightful)
Nokia's Pro Cam app is comprised of a slick dial interface that offers virtually all of the controls you'd find in a DSLR camera
But can you change the lens? Is the sensor large enough that depth of field becomes meaningful?
The 1020's camera grabs two versions of the shot; a large full resolution (7700x4300, roughly) shot with a huge 11MB file size...
My camera produces 20 megabyte raw files, but its sensor is only 14 Megapixels.
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What does the sensor size have to do with the depth of field? The DOF is controlled by the aperture, not the sensor's dimensions. Unless you meant "field of view" instead of "depth of field", which is a different story.
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I have an APS-C dlsr. If I put my 50mm f/1.4 lens, wide open, and photograph a subject 3 meters away, the depth of field is approximately 20 cm.
If I managed to find a 75 mm f/1.4 lens (fast 85mm lenses are far more common), and a full frame camera to mount it on, the field of view would be similar, but the depth of field would be approximately 13 cm.
Depth of field calculator [dofmaster.com]
IIRC, the lumia has a 1/1.7 sensor-- bigger than most point and shoots, but smaller than APS-C, or micro four thirds-- with a crop fact
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DOF is controlled by aperture and by subject - background and subject - camera distances. On a smaller sensor if you want the same field of view you need change your subject distance for all other things staying equal or reduce the focal length of the lens. In either case this results in a reduced depth of field.
This is why on a cameraphone you can't get any kind of decently low depth of field even with the f/2.8 lenses they often use.
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Personally I like these types of camera's for extreme close-ups or macro photo's, precisely because of the huge depth of field.
No one in his right mind would use these camera's for a nice bokeh.
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I don't care about bokeh as much as I do about subject isolation.
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Do you mean to say that the Lumia can shoot raw?
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Well--I always shoot raw, as I can fix a lot of problems in post production.
20 megabytes per picture is small enough that I've never run out of space on a shoot. 800 images on a 16 gigabyte card is plenty. They don't need to be smaller.
I wasn't comparing RAW to JPEG. I was comparing my usual file format to the what the lumia apparently uses. And 9 megabytes per image isn't large. It seems rather small to me.
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> with interchangeable telephoto lenses?
don't forget fisheyes, tilt shifts, macros and wide angle lenses. Nikon does make an android device [nikonusa.com] though it lacks interchangeable lenses.
If a manufacturer were to release an interchangeable lens camera with a good API, it might make a huge splash. Imagine: an entry level camera with 9 shot bracketing or sophisti0cated timelapse features.
More detailed amateurs... (Score:2)
If the quality is any bit respectable, it'll just mean more detailed selfies on imgur.
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They say size does not matter...
7700x4300? (Score:2, Insightful)
Not to my knowledge. Most of those reviewers on the net, links to flickr images with a max res of 3000x etc....
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http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/11/nokia-lumia-1020-picture-gallery-zoom-in/ this picture seems to be close (first one of the city)
or you could have used a image search engine to find it yourself... but i guess that is too much to expect, it is after all easier to just complain about something regardless of the truth
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Someone found what I failed to find. Thanks! That's what I wanted to see.
If it wasn't windows (Score:2, Insightful)
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I'd take my old P&S with a phone attached tho.
These are so you don't have to carry a camera. If i am planning on taking pictures it would be nice to leave my phone behind as i am not really planning on using it much.
That said....how is the PHONE? Some of my cohorts have $300 phones that sounds worse than my ANCIENT flip-phone after a couple dozen drops to the concrete :/ (makes note to stop dropping phone in front of said cohorts to freak em out..even if it is the one thing my phone does theirs doesn't
Imagine, this could be running Meego (Score:2)
How good your hardware is doesn't matter if its locked to shitty software.
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6" devices are not called phones! i have large hands but its just uncomfortable to hold anything with a screen bigger than 4".
100.3 fps video (Score:3)
The next step in video: cameras with internal framerate of 300fps that capture and save 100 of them with the precise timing of 50fps and 60fps video, combined with editing software that guarantees that as long as you stick to "splice points" falling every 100ms (the 1 frame in 5 for 50fps, and the 1 frame in 6 for 60fps, that both occur at the exact same moment in time before the next 9 frames diverge), you can shoot one source copy, then use it to generate native 50fps and 60fps output copies. Or, possibly, a version with outright asynchronous framerates that basically captures 60fps video with precise timing, adds a 7th frame 50#3 exactly halfway between frames 60#3 and 60#4, then quickly grabs a reduced-detail monochrome frame a few milliseconds before 60#2 and after 60#4, so that in post-production you could do motion-vector temporal rate correction on frames 50#2 and 50#4 that used the "quicksnap" frames to determine the exact grayscale detail & calculate the motion vectors, then derived the color by applying those motion vectors to the adjacent 60fps frames.
In linear order, with some semblance of relative timing:
50/60.1 --- 60.2 -- 50.2 - 60.3 - 50.3 - 60.4 -- 50.5 --- 60.6
Then, for the next stage, keep the imaging sensor with raw 300fps capability, and grab additional frames in between the 50fps and 60fps key frames with alternating longer and shorter exposures to obtain additional dynamic range that could be retroactively applied to the adjacent 50/60fps key frames in post-production (practically rendering lighting problems for shows meant for TV irrelevant, and giving news networks an extra bit of headroom since they CAN'T go back to re-shoot some live event.
For consumer gear, they could do something similar to skip the 50+60fps dual-framerate capability, and instead capture video at double the intended framerate, where every other frame is alternatingly over- or under-exposed, and enable the extra frames to either extend the dynamic range of the "good" frames, or do motion-vector transformations on the over/under-exposed frames to replace "key" frames that are themselves too dark or light to show directly.
Or, some variant on cameras for news crews where you have one lens and 3 or more CCDs, but instead of using the different CCDs to capture red, green, and blue, you'd expose and sample one CCD with 50fps timing, one CCD with 60fps timing, and a third CCD that's lower-res & monochrome, with extended infrared sensitivity and selectable IR-cut filter. In bright light, the IR cut filter slides in, and the monochrome channel gets under-exposed. In dark light, the IR cut filter slides out, and the monochrome channel gets over-exposed. In really dark lighting, it gets over-exposed at half the framerate with tweaked 25fps timing. The idea is that given enough time in post-production, almost anything could be salvaged from bad lighting.
Add fresnel lenses to high pixel density sensors so you can go in and re-render virtually re-focused frames after the fact, and adjust things like focal depth and focal plane to your liking, and you'll end up with a camera where nearly any problem can be fixed in post-production.
The underlying technology is all here, and has been for quite a while. The only thing missing was the terabytes of storage space needed to capture multiple HD video streams simultaneously from multiple sensors capturing at different framerates, and software that's aware of it.
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Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh come on, are you trying to sell sh.t for Microsoft? DSLR would have aperture priority mode, shutter priority and full manual mode, not the "ISO, white balance is all there".
Does this Windows phone crap needs to forced on people so badly that paid for "reviews" are not sufficient and now Slashdot is needed for that too?
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Oh come on, are you trying to sell sh.t for Microsoft?
Windows 8 got a 10-digit marketing budget. Of course there's shills everywhere.
Microsoft is desperate, and they're failing in every market they have to compete in. The only thing propping them up is enterprise, and every IT manager with a clue is looking at how to gracefully escape from that particular trap.
These phones are basically uninteresting niche products that don't work well enough to succeed even in their niche. Too little too late basically, like most recent Microsoft products.
Typing (Score:3)
I have a Lumia 520. Typing is a breeze. In Android, you just type, and its fine. In Windows Phone 8, when you type a word, it guesses, and throws up a list of alternatives in the header or footer that one may, or may not choose to use. Using it speeds it up quite a bit.
With Symbian, the phone would try to guess a word from the second character onwards, when one was using the numeric keypad to type, and that was painful. You would type the second character of a word, and it would try to alter the firs
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Yeah, I am wondering how well this will sell. I was all excited about this phone and was debating on getting one. However, it was just today that I learned that it was a Windows phone, not an Android, so its a no sell for me. Looking at the Galaxy Zoom now.
Now, if you want to give me this camera tech and put it in a stand-alone camera, without the Windows OS, and sell it for like $150 at Walmart, we will talk.
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"virtually all the controls" of a DSLR and it has a fixed aperture?
Marketing bullshit at its best.
Lets face it, invoking comparison with a DSLR is pretentious and preying on the ignorant.
Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:4, Informative)
The problem is they didn't just say "like you'd find in any DSLR camera." the summary said "virtually all of the controls you'd find in a DSLR camera." This is a laughable comment at best. It does not offer fine control over shutter aperture in different priority modes, fully manual control, bracketing, manual AF, viewfinder grid, horizon level, etc that you find standard in nearly all DSLRs on the market and many point and shoots. No I have seen many point and shoots that give more controls than what this offers.
Is it a good step forward? Yes. Is the sentence comparing it's controls to that of an actual camera justified? Hell no.
Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:4, Funny)
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So they have the 4 most common features of a camera? *slowclap*
I can rattle off many more features if you want, but really there's an easier way to judge. When it comes with a 200 page manual like a DSLR, then you can start saying it has virtually all the controls.
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The comment was "virtaully ALL" and no it's not understood. The vast majority of controls on a DSLR are software based. There's actually very little reason why "virtually all" the features can't be available where hardware allows.
It's actually demonstrably laughable that some of the features you said it has didn't actually even ship with the device. You have to actually go and download an update for the camera app to get the basic bracketing function.
So as I said... no as you implied it's a great camera but
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As far as I'm aware, the only thing is lacks is any sort of aperture control. That's because it's fixed at, from memory, F2.2.
Does that mean it's not the same as a DSLR? Yes, that's exactly what it means.
Does it mean it's much better than anything else you can get in a phone (and most things you get in point-and-shoot)? Yes, it does.
But the killer app here is the 41mp. Each photo sensor is awful - look at 1:1 zoom and you'll see so much noise it'll give you headaches. But that's not the point. The poi
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Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:5, Insightful)
Samsung has been showing serious cameras that have phone functions [dpreview.com], standard phones which have been outclassing Nokia in general reviews [dpreview.com] and real optical zoom cameras with most smartphone features [dpreview.com]. Nokia traditionally lead in phone cameras and when the original Pureview 808 [wikipedia.org] came out it looked pretty neat.
Now Nokia which has contracts that leave it trapped with windows they are desperate to get some of the 808's shine back. They know that users who already used a Windows phone won't do it again [blogs.com] so they have to look for new audiences. Aiming to sucker in camera users who they hope won't check app availability let alone how up to date the apps in the app store are is one of their better chances.
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Samsung has been showing serious cameras that have phone functions [dpreview.com], standard phones which have been outclassing Nokia in general reviews [dpreview.com] and real optical zoom cameras with most smartphone features [dpreview.com].
So: 1) large, non-pocketable, cameras; 2) smartphones that the review you link to did not actually decide is better than an earlier Lumia model with a less capable camera. You are trying so hard it hurts. Surely you forgot the Galaxy "S4" Zoom? ;-)
Nokia traditionally lead in phone cameras and when the original Pureview 808 [wikipedia.org] came out it looked pretty neat.
Right. And Lumia 1020 has improved on that.
Now Nokia which has contracts that leave it trapped with windows they are desperate to get some of the 808's shine back. They know that users who already used a Windows phone won't do it again [blogs.com]
Now you've gone and destroyed the last shreds of credibility by linking to the blog of an exposed liar.
Aiming to sucker in camera users who they hope won't check app availability let alone how up to date the apps in the app store are is one of their better chances.
What's wrong with the apps? OK, Instagram has decided to play nasty. Is anything of value lost?
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Now Nokia which has contracts that leave it trapped with windows they are desperate to get some of the 808's shine back. They know that users who already used a Windows phone won't do it again [blogs.com]
Now you've gone and destroyed the last shreds of credibility by linking to the blog of an exposed liar.
What I have seen is multiple attempts to portray him as a liar which turned out to be PR people propaganda. "Elop never said that.... oh shit Helsinkin Suomat had a recording; uhhh.. we didn't mean 'liar' just that he misunderstood". "no no, the operators love Skype. Oh that statement in the SEC filing, well yes, when we say 'love' we really mean 'love to hate'" and so on. I've seen things like "well look, the way he calculated the N9 numbers is wrong" coming from people who actually had the numbers a
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Yes, Helsingin Sanomat had a transcript, which clearly showed that Tomi, erm, misunderstood things in a little too imaginative way. As he so often does.
"well look, the way he calculated the N9 numbers is wrong" coming from people who actually had the numbers
Paranoid much? What tells you that the people debunking him on the internet have the inside data? From what I know, not many people in Nokia have access to the sales figures.
After that, anyone who wants to claim Tommi is a liar needs to not only point to an untrue statement but to show hard evidence that he made it deliberately and that he knew 100% that it was untrue at the time he said it.
Right, there's always the possibility that he's just a fool who passes his imagination for the real thing.
I understand that you have publicly put too much of your credibility into Tomi t
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Microsoft themselves have admitted to Windows phone being 18 months behind, especially in apps. This was even covered earlier on Slashdot.
Slashdot have been reposting a lot of FUD lately. Link?
Go and look at reviews of Windows which cover the apps market; developers are simply not fixing or updating the Windows versions because there aren't enough customers to justify it. This leaves old buggy software where iOS and Android have the latest and best.
Can we move on to specifics already without referring to some nebulous reviews? None of the applications I use are old or buggy. Perhaps some people have their first world problems due to not getting the fad of the month app, but I'm not one of them, so you gotta tell me.
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I don't have a DSLR but I do leave my camera in 'Program' mode most of the time - 95% of my photographs, more if I'm taking pictures of my cats.
I use AP, SP and manual at times, I mess about with ISO if the camera's introducing too much noise and I switch from auto to manual focus when I'm working with a narrow depth of field and the touch-screen AF indicator isn't cutting it.
A good camera takes better pictures in 'green dot' mode than a crap camera. Buying a DSLR and using it as a point and shoot means you
Re:Digital image stabilization makes a comeback. (Score:4, Informative)
sure? This phone has optical image stabilisation. One of the elements in the lens floats - hence "floating image stabilization"
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I have a Nokia 808 PureView. It does all this without being infected with Windows.
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image stabilization is not digital in the 1020, afaik. its accomplished by physically moving the lens assembly in response to movement detected by the gyro and accelerometer.
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So the OS doesn't allow you to take pictures, make phone calls and other various "phone" features?
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It does, but only 2 or three times before it grinds to a halt and you require a reboot which takes about eight minutes.
Are you basing this on anything or just "LOLZ BSOD" jokes from Windows 98?
Certainly you can criticize WP for certain things, like UI, and lack of app selection, but I've never heard complaints about stability, or inability to perform basic functions. Quite the opposite. Many reviews (even from hardcore iOS and Android users) point out how stable and responsive the OS is.
My Android phone freezes and restarts once every couple weeks. After I reboot it seems to re-enumerate the SD card for 8 minutes. Once I ha
Re:To quote Bender, (Score:4, Informative)
Because loading a 40MP image can bring computers to their knees. Even at 3 bytes per pixel (which most implementations use 4, iOS does anyway) for image data, you're looking at 120MB of RAM just to uncompress the image.
Why not have the dedicated hardware built in to the camera processor scale it down so the ARM cores don't spend a few minutes trying to do it in software?
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The ignorance on /. is astounding.
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Because color compression doesn't exist, and hasn't been in use in every image and video format for years.
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I just did a test with Firefox on an 3.4GHz i7-2600. It took Firefox 14 seconds of CPU time (on a single core) to render a 40MP image.
Firefox can't show the image zoomed out, only at 1x zoom scale.
Conclusion: Rendering 40MP images isn't a day in the park.
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I have the Nikon D800 that takes 36.3 MP pictures and using Gwenview in Linux of Irfanview in Windows I can very happily and without noticeable delay scroll through a large number of these photo's, hell even the Windows picture viewer doesn't choke on it!
Now I did try to watch these pictures on my Nexus-4 and Nexus-7 and that's not exactly a pleasure, there I'd be glad with the 5 MP copies.
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That part of it was fine, as soon as the image started loading, memory usage shot up 200MB.
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... inline with that said in my previous post. 40MP x 4 bytes per pixels = 160MB.
The problem is CPU bound - using software to decode a 40MP jpeg isn't quick, even on a modern desktop processor.
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You noticed the difference between 1450MB and 1650MB RAM usage by firefox?
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I must have a magical Firefox, it's only consuming around 400MB right now.
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Windows picture viewer and other such pieces of software create thumbnails. Some images have a thumbnail image embedded in the meta data.
Please tell me again why creating both a 40MP image and a 5MP image is a bad thing.
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Why didn't you try with an image viewer instead of a browser? The results are usually WAY better.
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Because I don't have any 40MP images on my computer, so I used this thing called the intertubes to download one.
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so you can't open images downloaded from the internet in an image viewer?
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well, firefox can't scroll facebook smoothly on a core i5, so...
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11MB and 5 MP, not 5MB.
Their reduction algorithm is matched to their hardware.
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the sensor is actually bigger than most point and shoot cameras. combine that with that humongous megapixel number and i'm sure the images will turn out pretty good.