The ruggedised QWERTY alternative?
Included here more for AAS readers perhaps than AAWP... since QWERTY designs were more common in the days of the Nokia E61, E71, E72, E7, N97 and the legendary E7. But of interest to others hopefully,...
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Juha Alakarhu on the Nokia 808, Lumia 1020, and more...
A blast from the past, but I had the pleasure of interviewing Juha Alakarhu on my most recent Phones Show Chat podcast, published yesterday and embedded below. Juha is, of course, the man who...
View ArticleThe all-time PureView shootout...
Long time Nokia fan Abdulla Zaki has put together an interesting cross-generation 'PureView shootout, showcasing (among others) his Nokia 808, Lumia 1020, Lumia 950 XL and Nokia 9 PureView. He pits...
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Continuous zoom to make a come back in smartphone cameras?
Long time AAS readers will remember the Nokia N93, a unique multi-form factor smartphone with a barrel camera that included a genuine continuous 1-3x zoom lens system. It worked superbly, at least in...
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A six way imaging head to head: Realme X3 SuperZoom vs Nokia 808/1020, etc.
The arrival of the Realme X3 SuperZoom, another smartphone with much hyped zoom camera system had me scurrying for some zoom favourites of yesteryear for AAS and AAWP readers, plus I also threw in the...
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PitlaneOne UWP belatedly (COVID-19) ready for F1, 2020!
For (Symbian and) Windows 10 Mobile, this is a notable update for F1 fans... The pandemic has caused a VERY late start to the F1 season, but there are still plenty of races to follow. Developer...
View ArticleThrowback: Mobile camera tech was amazing even before iPhone and Android
It's not just me that fondly remembers the dawn of smartphone photography as mainly a Nokia affair. Ask the average phone user these days and they'd guess that the iPhone was first to have a camera,...
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Enhancing your photos through artificial intelligence
Linked and quoted here is a completely incomprehensible (to me, and I'm a physicist with an imaging speciality!) article from Microsoft Research, in which it proposes (and demonstrates) ways of...
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Top 10 tips for taking better photos on your phone
I get asked every so often to condense my years of (ahem) photographic wisdom into digestable form - and set against the background of phone camera hardware and software which is constantly improving....
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Delight 1.8 custom firmware (CFW) released for the Nokia 808 PureView
Some phones never die. And the Nokia 808 is still going strong in some hands, thanks mainly to the untiring work of developers of custom firmware, who get around broken servers and certificates to keep...
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Live tiles, widgets. Could iOS 14 finally master the idea?
The arrival of genuine homescreen 'widgets' in iOS (see the screenshots below) has prompted more thought about the concept and about which mobile OS has mastered them, if any. Symbian and Android both...
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Five YEARS after Windows 10 Mobile's wireless Continuum, Samsung's DeX looks...
Yada yada. Same old story. But it bears repeating. Symbian's smartphone OS and Nokia's hardware was way ahead of the competition for half a decade, from 2004-2009, arguably. Then we had Windows Phone,...
View ArticleLooking back to the Nokia 808 and 1020 - plus imaging through to 2020
You'll have heard many of my thoughts on the Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020 before, of course, but here's a chance to hear them again - in the context of the modern smartphone world, and a lot more, though...
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'PureView take 2's creator working on 'universal' imaging at Adobe
Back in 2016, I postulated that Google's Pixel camera software, usually referred to as using HDR+, was effectively 'PureView take 2', doing oversampling in the time domain rather than the physical, as...
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SymbianOS community support on Telegram
A rare post here on this long forgotten OS, but there ARE people still having lots of fun playing with Symbian-powered phones, notably the mighty Nokia 808. There have been various Symbian enthusiast...
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Telegram via Jabber, on Symbian, in 2020!
Sergey "Symnok", one of the real enthusiasts in the Symbian community in 2020, has penned a useful tutorial on getting access to Telegram messaging via a somewhat circuitous route - see the quote and...
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Ceramic Shield kicks off new era in phone durability
Other than (perhaps) imaging improvements, the thing that grabbed my attention in Apple's recent online launch shindig was the use of a new 'Ceramic Shield' glass for its 2020 iPhones. This was...
View ArticleThe iPhone 12 Pro Max takes phone cinematography to another level
Featured in the iPhone 12 launch event this week, I wanted to highlight the three minute cinematographer video that was part of it. With a large (1/1.7") sensor with 1.7 micron pixels, using sensor...
View ArticleNot just Lumias that can be DIY-ed: Fairphone 3+
Over the years we've covered numerous devices that can be taken apart at home, replacing damaged components, combining parts from different handsets, and so on. Originally, I had great fun with the...
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Review: Aenkyo 'Air Wireless' 10000mAh power bank
The number one hassle with power banks on trips is that you also have to remember to take with you the right charging cable for each family device that you might need to rescue. For most of us, this...
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