The Nokia 808 PureView – world’s most powerful cameraphone.

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Matt

The new Nokia 808 PureView is set to bring about a revolution in camera and smartphone technology. The first phone to feature Nokia’s brand spanking new PureView camera technology, the Nokia 808 PureView is quite simply a ground-breaking piece of kit.

The Nokia 808 PureView is the most powerful cameraphone ever. Where most smartphones consider 8 megapixels plenty, the Nokia 808 PureView sports a gargantuan 41 megapixel camera which is capable of taking pictures with unbelievable detail and realism. 41 megapixels is unprecedented in a camera – as reviews giant CNET proclaims, “Even ‘proper’ cameras don’t have 41 megapixels, except the one that even the pros wish they could afford”. That gives the Nokia 808 PureView some real wallop in photography terms as well as blowing other smartphones out of the water. Cleverly, the Nokia 808 PureView takes these 41-megapixel pictures without blowing them up to the size of a house – your Nokia 808 PureView photos are a normal, usable size and, naturally, the Nokia 808 PureView has the capacity to share your photos and their incredible quality directly to social media websites like Facebook and Flickr. Or tap your Nokia 808 PureView to another NFC-enabled phone to share them instantly.

The Nokia 808 PureView’s 41-megapixel camera works on a surprisingly simple theory. Most smartphones have a sensor smaller than a pinkie fingernail, whilst the Nokia 808 PureView’s sensor is more the size of a postage stamp. The Nokia 808 PureView uses a technique called oversampling to combine up to seven pixels into one “pure” pixel. This enables you to zoom in by up to three times on any picture taken on the Nokia 808 PureView without losing any detail on your photo – and there are no artificially created pixels in your Nokia 808 PureView snap. Oversampling allows the Nokia 808 PureView to capture five times more light than a typical optical zoom camera used at full zoom, so the Nokia 808 PureView’s low-light performance is much better than that of any previous cameraphone. To further facilitate night-time snapping, the Nokia 808 PureView has a quality Carl Zeiss lens, a Xenon flash and LED video light.

Incredible photos aren’t the only trick the Nokia 808 PureView’s 41-megapixel camera has up its sleeve – it’s also breaking new ground in the field of smartphone video recording. The Nokia 808 PureView camera allows 1080p video recording at 30 frames per second – its powerful image processor handles over 1 billion pixels every second. And the Nokia 808 PureView is the first video recording device ever to be able to record distortion-free sound at audio levels outside the capability of human hearing, allowing sound to be captured in incredible quality. You can even hook up your Nokia 808 PureView to an HD TV via wireless streaming or HDMI, and really show off the mind-blowing detail in your Nokia 808 PureView photography and video. And to contain all the pictures and video you’ll be taking, there’s 16GB of internal user memory, which can be upped to 48GB with a MicroSD card.

With the Nokia 808 PureView’s astonishing camera capabilities, it’s easy to forget that the Nokia 808 PureView is not just a cameraphone, it’s a fantastic smartphone too! With the Nokia 808 PureView looking like a cross between a smartphone, with its classic hard plastic casing, and a camera, Nokia have packed an awful lot into the Nokia 808 PureView’s pocketable 169 grammes. Available in black, white or red, the Nokia 808 PureView has nifty dimensions – 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm – and even with all that camera on the back, Nokia have done a fab job of keeping the Nokia 808 PureView’s camera bump to a minimum. The Nokia 808 PureView rocks a responsive four-inch ClearBlack AMOLED capacitative touchscreen display with 360 x 640 pixels, capable of displaying 16.7 million colours and nestling below a sheet of the the super-hardy scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass.

The Nokia 808 PureView runs on Nokia’s Belle operating system with Feature Pack 1 enhancements, which gives it a simple-to-use interface with rounded square icons which allow you easily to customise your Nokia 808 PureView – choose up to six customisable home screens and customisable profiles, adding widgets at will. The Nokia 808 PureView’s PIM (Personal Management System) will help you keep track of your contacts, calendars, to-do lists and notes. There’s a new browser for the Nokia 808 PureView, the latest Nokia maps and an improved notifications bar. Use the Nokia 808 PureView’s Social client from the home screen to update Facebook and Twitter with your latest news, and use the Nokia 808 PureView’s RSS reader to keep up-to-date with your favourite blogs. With all the fun you can have on your new Nokia 808 PureView you’ll be glad of its outstanding battery life – 6.5 hours of talk time, and up to 540 hours standby power.

The Nokia 808 PureView isn’t just a smartphone, it’s an amazing camera – ideal for the budding photographers among you. The Nokia 808 PureView has no official UK release date as yet, but fingers are crossed for May.

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ASUS PadFone- a groundbreaking new concept.

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Matt

The ASUS PadFone is a unique new concept which could help decide the minds of those who are hesitating whether to leap from their smartphone comfort zone into the dizzy heights of tablets. The ASUS PadFone is a startling piece of hybrid technology which brings together the versatility of a tablet and the simple functionality of a phone. The ASUS PadFone has been getting rave reviews from technology websites all over the world, including one from reviews giant Cnet who described the ASUS PadFone not only as “awesome” but as “the turducken of the mobile world”. Looking at the ASUS PadFone provides an explanation for this – the ASUS PadFone package features several pieces which work in harmony. Firstly, there’s the ASUS PadFone smartphone which, whenever you need something a little larger, slots neatly into its partner piece, the ASUS PadFone docking station, to create a high-powered tablet. And the ASUS PadFone also comes with an optional keyboard dock and an optional Bluetooth stylus – this last piece of ASUS PadFone accessory also doubles as a receiver for when you receive phone calls, which is particularly useful if your ASUS PadFone smartphone is slotted into the docking station when your mum calls. And another great advantage of the ASUS PadFone – the as the ASUS PadFone Station uses the PadFone’s 3G connection to access the internet, there’s no need for two SIM cards or two data plans to cover both a smartphone and a tablet. So the ASUS PadFone can save you money.

The ASUS PadFone smartphone looks great – it’s just 8.9mm thick, and is super-light to carry, without looking or feeling light in its build. Indeed, the ASUS PadFone smartphone feels solid and well-made, and the design excels in its attention to detail. The back of the ASUS PadFone smartphone has a classy looking spun metal coating, identical to what you’ll find on the Transformer Pad tablets. A closer look at the back of the ASUS PadFone smartphone (and the ASUS PadFone docking station) reveals that the Zen-inspired design ASUS first employed in the ZENBOOK continues with the PadFone. The concentric circle finish found on the back of the PadFone and the PadFone Station provides a comfortable grip and looks elegant and stylish. The attention to detail on the ASUS PadFone is extended to the accessories – the sleeve contains a SIM card slot, ideal if you travel a lot, and contains a hidden cleaning cloth. The ASUS PadFone sleeve’s brand tag doubles as a stylus headset combo holder – ASUS really have thought of everything when designing the ASUS PadFone.

The front of the ASUS PadFone smartphone boasts a 4.3 inch 960 x 450 pixel Super AMOLED Plus qHD display, and the ASUS PadFone’s DynamicDisplay – an ASUS exclusive technology – will automatically adjust the ASUS PadFone’s layout when you slot it into the ASUS PadFone’s station. It’ll even remember where you were when you left off to join the pieces together, so if you’re playing a game or using an app, you’ll be able to continue uninterrupted on the ASUS PadFone docking station’s 10.1-inch screen with 1,280×800-pixel resolution. The ASUS PadFone station’s screen features a layer of the incredibly hard-wearing and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 2 to protect it from damage.

The ASUS PadFone runs on Google’s Android operating system, running its popular Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 operating system, so all ASUS PadFone users can take advantage of the thousands of free and low-cost Android apps available from Google’s new Google Play store. The ASUS PadFone has a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor – early reviewers of the ASUS PadFone remark on its responsive screen and easy, intuitive use. Inside the ASUS PadFone’s tablet docking station is a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which works alongside an Adreno 225 GPU to provide super-fast performance and quality graphics for gaming, movies, photos, and all other applications. Listen to music, play games, surf the internet and chat online (using, if you like, the ASUS PadFone’s QWERTY chiclet keyboard mobile dock). If you like to take quick pics, the ASUS PadFone features a rear-facing 8MP camera with a back-illuminated CMOS sensor, LED flash, large f/2.2 aperture and a 5-element lens. Flip it over to use the ASUS PadFone’s front-facing HD1080p video camera, which records at VGA resolution even under low lighting conditions. Store your apps, videos, pictures and so on on the ASUS PadFone smartphone’s 16GB of internal storage, augmentable to 64GB by use of the microSD card slot.

ASUS PadFone’s manufacturers are confident that the ASUS PadFone will fulfil all your phone and tablet needs. You won’t be able to take your hands off it, in which case it is handy that the ASUS PadFone has astounding battery life. If your ASUS PadFone smartphone is running low, dock it to the PadFone’s station to extend its battery life by up to five times. Add in the bigger battery of the Station Dock and battery life is increased by up to 9 times. Together, the three devices can las for around 17 hours of use – and when you start playing with the ASUS PadFone, you’ll be glad, because you just won’t want to put it down.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Matt

The black version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is soon to be joined by a light, bright newcomer – the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is on its way. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB will be available in the UK in early February 2012 and is sure to be a smartphone to be seen with, gracing the hippest of hands and trendiest of trousers within days of its release. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was, on its release, the first device to feature Google’s newest Android 4.0 operating system, the sweetly named Ice Cream Sandwich, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is also graced with this state-of-the-art OS. Many specialists, basing their proclamation on the recent decision to upgrade Samsung’s 2010 Google Nexus S to Android 4.0, consider buying a Google device a great investment for the future.

On first glance, the two most striking things about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB are its screen and its sleek minimalist looks. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is only the second device in the world to come with a 4.65-inch capacitive Super AMOLED HD display with 1280×720 pixels (the first, in case you’re wondering, was the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7!). The Samsung Galaxy Nexus’s Super AMOLED HD display features a brand-new state-of-the-art touchscreen technology which makes the Samsung Galaxy Nexus’s touchscreen brighter, thinner, less reflective and more energy efficient. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB’s screen is concave, reducing reflections – this feature is a popular takeaway from a previous Samsung smartphone, the Nexus S. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB’s high-definition display and 720p-resolution video means that it lends itself beautifully to many uses, from gaming to browsing the internet, without scaling. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s HD OLED display gives dazzling colour accuracy and an auto-brightness setting means that brightness will adjust automatically depending on whether you’re in a dark room or sitting in the sun.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s minimalist looks are, in fact, facilitated by the screen. For the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White, Samsung have done away with buttons on the front of the device, relying solely on use of the on-screen icons for navigation. Despite the worry that this could mean losing some screen space that could be used for cool graphics or text, this doesn’t seem to be the case on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White – lots of apps can go full-screen and make full use of the HD display. A notification light is hidden beneath the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s screen and if you miss a message, call or email, it will flash to let you know. There is still a function for on-screen notifications, and they can now be cleared by dragging them off the screen with your finger – or act on them straight away by using the notification menu to access your phone settings. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White has a dedicated on-screen task manager button, which makes accessing your applications and swapping between them super-easy, and there’s a new way to install widgets using a new lab in the launcher menu. – all functions of the new Google Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. If you’re on a capped mobile-data plan there’s no need to worry – there are controls on mobile data usage.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s Ice Cream Sandwich operating system brings with it several space-age and often exclusive features. NFC (Near Field Communication) technology is a way of sharing information between devices and was embraced by Google some months ago. On the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White NFC technology has been taken to the next level – you can now use your Samsung Galaxy Nexus to pay for goods and services (rather like an Oyster card on London Underground). And NFC technology is used on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White in the new, Ice Cream Sandwich-exclusive feature Android Beam, which allows you to share information – such as contact details, websites, YouTube videos and maps – between two NFC-enabled devices simply by tapping them together. Another Ice Cream Sandwich-exclusive feature on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White is Face Unlock – a fun app which remembers what you look like so that you can use your face as your password. Just pick up your Samsung Galaxy Nexus White and point the front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera at your face to unlock your phone. Flip the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White over and there’s a 5 megapixel camera on the back – also capable of filming full HD video in both 720p 1080p.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB naturally comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiFi Direct, and inside the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is a 1.2GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 1GB RAM. There’s no microSD slot but, as the name Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB suggests, there’s an ample 16GB internal storage capacity, all of which is available for your personal use for apps, because the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB shares your internal storage between media and apps.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is a stylish smartphone – it’s easy to use and packed with features, and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS has ample potential to keep you in fun apps for years to come. A wise investment.

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Huawei Vision

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Matt

The Huawei Vision is aptly named – it really is a vision. A good-looking and well-priced mid-range smartphone with a host of features, it runs on Google’s Android 2.3.4 interface (otherwise known as Gingerbread), and it’s landing on UK shelves in time to be in your Christmas stocking.

With a strong and sturdy unibody aluminium design, the Huawei Vision weighs about 135g, and is just 9.9mm at its thinnest, with a width and height of 59.3mm and 116.8mm. The back of the Huawei Vision is a classy anodised metal, topped at each end with a matte black plastic. The Huawei Vision’s glossy black front piece has a 3.7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and 256,000 colours. The Huawei Vision’s touchscreen has an accelerometer sensor, so it rotates automatically when you need it to, and a proximity sensor which locks the screen when it senses that you’re making a call. It’s the perfect size for a touchscreen, big enough to ensure accuracy when typing on the classic Android keyboard or on the Huawei’s default TouchPal keyboard, but not so big that smaller-handed people find it a stretch. This means that not only is the Huawei Vision’s touchscreen ideal for hands of all shapes and sizes, it’s the perfect size for all applications – typing text messages, tweets and Facebook posts, and also for playing the many games you can download from the Android Market. In fact, the Huawei Vision comes ready loaded with Angry Birds, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Order & Chaos Online and Guerrilla Bob HD, so the second you get your hands on a Huawei Vision, you can start gaming right away.

The Huawei Vision’s super-responsive touchscreen is slightly curved, adding a real sense of quality and luxury, as well as reducing those pesky reflections. And with 252dpi (dots/pixels per inch) you get crisp, clear images – ideal for showing off the pictures you’ll be taking with the 5-megapixel camera with single-LED flash and fast-responding autofocus that’s housed on the back of the Huawei Vision. You can use the Huawei Vision for movies, too – budding film-makers will love using the Huawei Vision to record in 720p video.

The Huawei Vision’s user interfaces will blow your mind – they are simple and intuitive to use yet fun, and they look very impressive indeed. In fact, the Huawei Vision gives you a choice of two experiences. Traditionally minded Huawei Vision owners can choose the classic Android launcher, which brings up the Google interface that Android fans know and love. If you fancy something a bit more fun, the Huawei Vision has the 3D Carousel interface, a 3D-style carousel that will allow you to view all your home screens at once in an interactive ring, even spinning them at high speed if you wish – a fun feature which looks great and makes accessing your Huawei Vision home screens more interesting. Adding and removing panels is a snap too – you can just drag and drop them in the 3D interface.

The Huawei Vision’s specifications are enough to rival any other smartphone. Running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, the OS designed by Google especially for smartphones, it has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and an inbuilt 2GB (ROM) internal memory, with 1GB of storage for your pictures, videos and so on. If that’s not enough for you, the Huawei Vision’s microSD card slot can take memory cards of up to a whopping 32GB.

Online access on the Huawei Vision is easy – not surprisingly for a phone with an operating system built by Google. Connecting with WiFi and 3G (plus Bluetooth), it comes with the stock Android browser which supports multiple windows, bookmarks, sharing options, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash – cleverly, internet on your Huawei Vision looks a lot like what you might see on your laptop. The Huawei Vision features a host of apps to make life easier and more enjoyable. You can search Google, use Gmail and chat with your friends on Google Talk, and use the inbuilt GPS system with Google Maps to find your way around. Access your documents and work wherever you are with Documents To Go, or browse, download (for free!) and read thousands of books with your Aldiko book reader app. Plus the Android Market has thousands of apps for any purpose you could think of, accessible at a moments notice and often free of charge.

A smartphone that truly allows you to make the most of the internet wherever you are, the Huawei Vision is a mid-range phone that will tick all your boxes.

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