Hardware-wise, the camera is excellently equipped. A Carl Zeiss lense provides the focussing, a 5MP sensor does the actual imaging. Last but not least, a real flash and a focus assist LED are thrown in to simplify working in low-light conditions.
The first test image was an indoor shot of the ficus in my main office(shared with abc texte) - the leaves are somewhat sharp, but pretty noisy:
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After that, I went on to make a few shots with the macro mode(must be activated manually). Both of them turned out well focussed, although the Treo’s keys are a bit noisy:
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Moving on to flash: my classic test bookshelf has turned out pretty well. Of course, a digital camera manages a better picture(where the book covers can actually be read) - but for a camera phone, the N82’s performance is superb:
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A completely dark bedroom(6m long) was lit up well, although noise levels got out of control:
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Finally, an image of a brightly lit house made with night mode. The capture time is pretty long - getting a sharp image is easiest via burst mode. Nevertheless, the images aren’t as crisp as the ones from a digital camera:
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The burst mode of the camera is excellent(even though a bit slow at approx 0.5FPS/sec when saving 5MP pics to RAM) - it allows you to fill up the available memory completely..
]]>Before we get into the nitty-gritty, here’s an overview of the “Mindshare” distribution. Palm and S60 get one device into the top list, Apple manages to squeeze in two, and PocketPC’s take up the remaining six boxen. Windows Mobile Smartphones are not represented this month:
Here is a list of the devices:
What do you think?
]]>Nevertheless, daring folk can always visit symbian-freak and try it out - please let us know how you fared!
]]>However, our host has decided to migrate us to a new server which is more resistant to DDOS attacks after the recent brawl over a bunch of Olympus E520 sample images.
Anyways, all should now be working a-ok again - in case you note any issues, please let us know ASAP!
Best regards and sorry
Tam Hanna
First of all, two Symbian executives began blogging a few days ago. David Wood’s blog is here; John Forsyth’s sits here.
Finally, TheRegister has a very long story on the history of Psion (the company that initially developed Symbian) - if you have a bit of time, look at it here.
]]>The latest leak involves the infamous HowardForums - a user posted the following shot of two newly-acquired BeiBei devices:

As of now, it’s really difficult to decide whether these devices will ship or not. The hardware seems to be ready to go - the question is SE’s willingness to risk a deployment…
]]>Here are a few - visit JAMPB for the full gallery:


P.S. In case anyone of you wonders: yes - a “black” version of the N76 has been released a few months ago. However, it isn’t all black, but has a few silver elements on the front…
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However, the Opera team recently fired up a blog post announcing a beta of Opera 9.5 for Windows Mobile (available on July the 15th) - Symbian was not mentioned anywhere.
We have sent an inquiry to Opera yesterday - and while the company usually responds very fast, the silence that followed can be considered a very bad sign…
Do you think that Opera 9.5 will ever hit S60 and/or UIQ?
]]>The phone fared pretty well except for minor eekers - get the full scoop here:
http://www.wirelessinfo.com/content/Nokia-E66-Cell-Phone-Review.htm
I myself am not sure about what this means for end users as a recent rumor has stated that the device pictured above may never come to Europe and the USA.
On the other hand, developers have received white papers covering the devices; and FCC certification has been achieved - the device IMHO is in a more-less ready-to-drop state and doesn’t look too unattractive for average customers.
In the end, however, the release of the Paris is of little significance for UIQ developers. The ship has begun to sink - get off it asap!
via JAMPB
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