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Imminent availability of smartphone with genuine (not hybrid) 10x telephoto
From a background of modest 2.5x zoom with the Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020 through to the insane super-bulky Samsung Galaxy K Zoom to the hybrid periscope systems of today (Huawei P30/P40 Pro, OPPO Find...
View ArticleThe all-time PureView shootout...
Long time Nokia fanĀ 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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The P40 Pro+ hits the review circuit, genuine 10x telephoto
You may remember that I'd been testing the new Huawei P40 Pro here, especially because of its 'no Google, love Microsoft' stance, making it an interesting shout in terms of replacing a Lumia 950, not...
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Three years on: What's in Steve's phone-centric toolkit? (2020)
Three years ago, I let the world know what was in my mobile IT kit, the accessories I group together in the house and take with me on any serious journey to family etc. What inevitably happens in all...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of Windows Phone
Jon Rettinger has put up a half hour long (I know, I know) video chronicling the fortunes of Microsoft in the Mobile space, at least as seen from a US-perspective. It's a great watch and pulls together...
View Article"When phones were fun..."
I'll just leave this here - Michael Fisher has gotten hold of a load of old S60 and Series 90 smartphones from the early 'noughties' and done a video about them - these old handsets rarely made it to...
View ArticleThat POCO F2 Pro? My video verdict...
Having delivered a verdict here on AAWP on the POCO F2 Pro as a replacement for a Lumia, including a detailed imaging comparison, I thought you might also like a more rounded, general verdict from me...
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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!
ForĀ (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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Underestimating the appeal of ultra-wide angle cameras...
Camera 'angles' are an odd thing. Back in the day (2005-2015), all a phone camera needed to do was shoot a single, standard (90Ā° or so) photo of a scene, as well as possible. Job done. Various...
View ArticleGorilla Glass 'Victus' announced, significant scratch and drop protection
Gorilla Glass has been ubiquitous in the smartphone world for a while now - and Corning, its creators, improve theĀ aluminosilicate formula with each generation, making it less likely to scratch and...
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