Flashback: the Nokia 808 PureView was from the future Comments
- shpe11
- srr
Awesome phone
You forgot the also awesome AMOLED screen with contrast ratio that was just recently achieved
Also xenon flash like in handled cameras instead of LEDs
Why wasn't bootloader unlocked and some little port of an Android??? I would defenitly use this if I have some up-to-date software... Same thing with some other awesome phone lumia 930.
Got a Nokia collection as former Nokia Developer Champion: 5800 the first symbian touch, N8, N800 the one with full Linux, N8, Lumia 800 first wm, 808 the last symbian, 1020, 930 last true Nokia
Currently gone Android on CAT s60, with awful camera... But got it for about 100eur... Every photo I miss the 930... Guess going back even I have no WhatsApp working for the next year... Maybe I could develop something web with an API if exists... Because web.whatsapp.com won't work...
- Anonymous
- u1A
itsmypostbaby, 18 Nov 2019i just want that xenon bulb flash!#metoo :P
Carol, 18 Nov 2019Nokia designed the camera they needed a manufacurer to also produce it, which is actually norm... moreNot like that, Nokia just asked not designed, you can make me a sensor with the specifications like this to Toshiba, and yes Toshiba can make it. If they full the design it will called Nokia sensor and not Toshiba sensor like Apple or Snapdragon or kirrin do with their SoC.
itsmypostbaby, 18 Nov 2019i just want that xenon bulb flash!me too, I wonder why flash is not popular in smartphone
- Becool
- P%j
I still own this master piece ...love it...Nokia did amazing innovation...have 808 pureview and lumia 1020
Real diamond in camera phone world
- nokiauser
- nCe
this is what i love with nokia they are very innovative in their own way and they teach it to the other people to do it as well. King is always a king, the name the innovation is always there no matter what. it is like similar to electric motors, tesla followed by porsche. tesla teach others to create also electric motors.
- Anonymous
- I8m
Carry mine with me every day.
- Anonymous
- I8m
Whackcar, 17 Nov 2019Some people have misconceptions regarding these Pureviews being better than todays cameraphone... moreYou're the one with the misconception.
Nothing produces shots so full of rich, beautiful, natural, fine, detail. And that's not just hardware. That's mature image processing too.
And actually night shots can still come out amazing. Of course just like today's phones a tripod and manual settings makes a difference. Though unfortunately you don't exactly have manual settings on 808.
What phones have now are faster focus tech, better hdr, and faster image processors. So they can focus a little faster and take better one shot hdr.... you can do image bracketing on the 808 and get stellar shots.
And a little better better low light.
- Anonymous
- I8m
Whackcar, 17 Nov 2019The point is, that at the end of the day, the PureView & modern flagships perform on a sim... moreNo there is definitely a difference in the level of pure refined detail without a doubt.
- Rimas2
- nH{
@GSMArena - please, reshoot 808 in a new studio setup. p.s. 808 didn't have "shoot now, recompose after feature" - it was Lumia 1020's thing.
@HMD - 909 or 2020(!) with the same specs and new hardware and software would be welcome. Even with a bump.
Vegetaholic, 18 Nov 2019Symbian didint need because it, was inferior os in any way comparing to Android, not because i... moreAre you not able to understand that his complaint is against "Spying" of Androids?
So, US had a 9/11 attack, should it mean that everyone of us should suffer from this lack of privacy?
What's so fanboyish about asking for privacy? And what, is iOS private, are you believing that propo-rubbish?
Symbian was truly a smart OS. Android and iOS are just oversmart.
Vegetaholic, 18 Nov 2019Symbian didint need because it, was inferior os in any way comparing to Android, not because i... moreTypical fanboy BS? Man, go and educate yourself. You obviously don't know anything about Symbian. Nor about early Spydroid in that case. Did you mention some 1 core 'superior' Spydroid phone that could record and play 1080p video, btw? Ignorant fanboys like you were reason why Spydroid won. Belle wiped floor with its early iterations.
- Rimas2
- nH{
@GSMArena I think, you MUST reshoot Nokia 808 photos in your new comparison studio setup. BTW, one could not resize a photo after capturing 808. It was a Lumia 1020's thing.
@HMD just make 909 or 1030 (2020????), you fancypants! Same specs, new hardware, new software. I certainly wouldn't mind a bump! That Nokia 808 felt far better in the hand and the pocket than most of the phones do today.
- Vegetaholic
- mE0
SpiritWolf, 17 Nov 2019They had those processors because Spydroid was/is ineffective as OS. Needs desktop processor t... moreSymbian didint need because it, was inferior os in any way comparing to Android, not because it was efficiant, it was build like in 90's without any touch screen UI in mind. Android was already much better than iOS in functionality, your argument makes no sense. Typical fan boy BS
Nokia sure is travelling in time... With Nokia 808 they travelled 5 years into the future, with the new Nokia 7.2/6.2 they travelled 2 years into the past.
- itsmypostbaby
- RN5
i just want that xenon bulb flash!
- Anonymous
- ptU
Anonymous, 17 Nov 2019Someone needs to try making the 2020 version of the legendary Nokia 808.You wouldn't want it for size reasons.
Whackcar, 17 Nov 2019Some people have misconceptions regarding these Pureviews being better than todays cameraphone... moreOnly thing i agree is somewhat limited dynamic range. And we all know reason. No HDR.
808 is good in low light actually. As i own one i've a lot of low light pictures. Sure, tripod is nice when you are outside. Inside, Xenon flash does its work admirably.
And if i must choose between real photos and computational paintings, there's no question.
I have P30Pro, XZ3, Lumia 950XL and 808 right now. All great camera phones and 808 does best pictures of them.
- SDK
- Dk8
Anonymous, 17 Nov 2019Nokia brought so many stuff to mobile community, unlike those cheap brands with sub-$500 flagships. Those cheap brands keeping the industry floating. A decade ago only a few people used to have phones, rich brats or businessmen, and some nerds. Now everyone has at least one phone, some have multiple.
Because of those "cheap brands" the industry innovating like crazy, compared to a decade ago, when only nokia and some other brands were there.
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