How well do the members of the Pocketnow team know one another? In this season of giving, what gifts would they send each other?
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Who gets an iPhone X for Christmas? | #PNWeekly 284 (LIVE at 3p ET)
The ghosts of iPhones past, present and future make the rounds in our show today. From Secret Santas to batteries big and small, this is gonna be fun.
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You can already buy the perfect smartphone
Not long ago our own Anton D. Nagy told us “there’s no such thing as a perfect smartphone”. He’s absolutely right — and completely wrong. I, like Tony, have a stack of smartphones that I can call upon at any given time. Some have HD screens. Some have LTE. Some have removable batteries. Some can accept SD cards. Some have a slide-out keyboard. Some include a high-end camera. What none of them have is a perfect combination of everything. None of the smartphones I own has everything. Each is always ...
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Anton Thinks: there’s no such thing as a perfect smartphone, yet
…they’re all good, and they all suck, at the same time. Wait, what? Let me explain! I am lucky to have a rather impressive collection of devices, mostly because of my addiction, and also because it just so happens that I do this for work. Lucky me, I can always opt for the perfect smartphone for every situation, knowing the pros and the cons of each. You might not be so lucky. If you are, chances are you’re doing the same thing I am. Shuffling phones depending on what you do, where, and for how long. I always choose the iPhone 5 when I go outside to shoot some pictures in bright, ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 057: Hellacious Trio of Champions
If you thought the Palm commercials of 2009 were as weird as mobile tech advertising would ever get, HTC and Robert Downey Jr. have something to show you. That’s the conversation that kicks off this week’s edition of the Pocketnow Weekly podcast, and it’s followed by some heartening news about this year’s IFA in Berlin. If the rumors hold true, we should be in for some powerfully geeky, if unconventional, tech in Germany this year – and even if they don’t, we’ve got plenty to talk about in the way of chipsets, Nexii, smartwatches, and phablets. If ...
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PureView vs PureView: Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Nokia 808
Shortly after meeting him in person for the first time at IFA 2012, I sat in a Berlin bar with Managing Editor Anton D. Nagy and we talked about our hopes for the future of smartphones. He’d just given me a gander at his prize Nokia 808 PureView, and despite its bulk and its dated software platform, I wanted it. More precisely: I wanted a Windows Phone version of it. Fast forward to MWC 2013. Anton and I were ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom vs Nokia 808 PureView Camera Comparison (Video)
Which is better: physical lens doing optical zoom, or the PureView technology? We want to find out in our Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom vs Nokia 808 PureView camera comparison below. We’ve got two fundamentally different approaches to imaging here. While the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom employs lens and physical zoom for getting closer to your subjects, the Nokia 808 PureView (and the Nokia Lumia 1020), are using a huge 41-megapixel sensor which gives you the power to crop towards the center of the image, hence selecting a portion of the entire canvas, for zoom. We’ll be updating this post ...
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Which zoom technology is best: lossless digital or optical?
Smartphone cameras are more important than ever. No longer are they cameras bolted onto the back of our phones for technicality reasons. They are legitimate cameras, capable of capturing impressive shots. And they give an entirely new meaning to the old saying “the best camera is the one you have on you.” In the last year or so, smartphone manufacturers have branched out and redirected a solid portion of their focus on image sensing. Nokia, for example, introduced PureView imaging technology with the 808 and Lumia ...
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Would you like an Android-powered camera-phone like the Nokia 808 PureView or EOS?
There used to be a significant divide between “good” cameras and “point-and-shoot” varieties. Today, thanks to modern technology, that division is growing smaller. In the past you could tell a hard-core photographer from an amateur by the size of their lens and the features on their camera. Today we have smartphones that can all take decent pictures, and a few that can take fabulous ones. What’s made all this possible? Technology. Sensors have gotten smaller and more sensitive. Storage devices are getting smaller in size, larger in capacity, and faster in ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom vs Nokia 808 PureView (Video)
If the Nokia 808 PureView was considered by many to be a camera with a phone, we are now then right in calling the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom a phone with a camera. …or vice versa. Anyways, both of these phones are built with different concepts and principles in mind. The PureView achieves lossless zoom by cropping towards the sensors 1:1 ratio, while the Galaxy S4 zoom simply extends its optical lenses so that you can achieve 10x optical zoom for your images. Let’s see how the two stack up against each other!
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Nokia camera mechanical shutter explained by Damian Dinning
Damian Dinning is the person responsible for many awesome camera innovations at Nokia. Before leaving the company – his place was taken by Juha Alakarhu — he brought PureView to the world, first, in the form of the Nokia 808, then, the Lumia 920 with PureView stage-two. The Nokia 808 PureView features, among many other camera innovations, a mechanical shutter. While the Nokia EOS is nothing but a ...
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Samsung Galaxy S 4 vs HTC One vs Apple iPhone 5 vs Nokia 808 PureView Camera Comparison
Samsung Galaxy S 4 vs HTC One vs Apple iPhone 5 vs Nokia 808 PureView; that’s the comparison we’ve been waiting to do ever since this year’s flagship Android models came out. That also happens to be the camera comparison most requested by ...
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New Galaxy Releases, LG Event, Nokia EOS Launch Date & More – Pocketnow Daily
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Google’s new offer to iOS developers to use Chrome as their navigation tool. LG is next as we talk about their probable tablet plans for the fall, along with their scheduled event for May 30th. Then let’s talk about the HTC First which now gets a big price cut on AT&T, for reasons we can only assume. Samsung is next as we talk about the new galaxy devices that they’ll release in the next coming months, and no, by new galaxy we don’t mean the Galaxy S 4. We end today’s show talking about Nokia, their EOS ...
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Galaxy S 4 US Launch Dates, iPhone 5S A7 Chip, Nokia Lumia 928 vs 920 & More – Pocketnow Daily
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Pantech Vega Iron leaks and the fact that companies still don’t understand what a phone without a bezel means. Then we move to the Galaxy S 4 as rumors have the launch dates for the US already set for the end of this month. The iPhone 5S is next as we’ve got leaked images of an A7 quad-core chip powering the next generation device. Then we talk about the Nokia Lumia 928 and how it was compared to the Nokia Lumia 920. We end today’s show by talking about the Nokia EOS project and the possibility that this will be the ...
UltraPixel vs PureView: HTC One & Nokia 808 PureView Camera Shoot-Out
Update: By popular demand we added a side-by-side video comparison at the bottom of this post; you can check it out in addition to the raw video files. ____ We’ve recently compared the camera performance on the new HTC One with the imaging capabilities of the Verizon HTC Droid DNA, as well as the PureView on the Nokia Lumia 920. However, the Lumia 920 features a completely different ...