Want to know how a 41-megapixel camera phone shapes up against its smart phone rivals? You're in luck, because our friends at CNET Asia have got their hands on the Nokia 808 PureView and pitted it against the iPhone 4S.
Click here for a camera shootout between the Nokia 808 and iPhone 4S, including the original shots with no compression and no editing, for your perusing pleasure.
The 808 PureView is set to 8-megapixel resolution to match the iPhone, so this is a test of Nokia's claims that the PureView technology is more than sheer brute megapixelage. Nokia reckons that each pixel in an 8-megapixel photo is made up of information from seven pixels on the sensor, filtering out image noise.
The snaps certainly show more detail in the PureView's photos, which also has a wider field of view -- as seen in the photo above. But the iPhone has more sophisticated high dynamic range built-in, and more vibrant colours -- as seen in the photo below. Check out our photo gallery to see which you prefer.
I got to use the 808 PureView when it was unveiled at the start of the year, and I was impressed with the powerful features and intuitive interface, even though I wasn't able to see the results of any actual photos. For a closer look at the phone itself, and its many cool camera features, check out my in-depth photo gallery.
The Nokia 808 PureView is set to go on sale at the end of the month for around £540 -- could it be the most expensive Symbian phone ever?
What do you think of the 808's snaps? Are you planning to invest in an 808, or are you waiting until the technology filters down into other phones? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.
For more camera comparisons, check out our Samsung Galaxy S3 vs iPhone 4S vs HTC One X vs Sony Xperia S smart phone shootout.
T-Mobile launches iPhone-compatible network at WWDC - Itproportal
T-Mobile may have a million iPhones running on its network, but they're all crawling along at slow EDGE speeds. That's going to change over the next few months as the carrier 'refarms' 3G spectrum to become more compatible with AT&T-specced phones.
Where better to test that than the iPhone scrum known as the Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference? T-Mobile confirmed to 9to5Mac that it'll turn on 1900Mhz HSPA+ "inside the west side of the Moscone Center", although the company added that "the time and location of this test is just coincidental."
Yeah, right.
T-Mobile's refarming won't just help iPhone owners. T-Mobile's 1700Mhz AWS spectrum is supported by fewer devices than the more mainstream 1900Mhz band, so unlocked Android phones that couldn't hit 3G on T-Mobile before will finally be able to do so.
Few of those phones will be able to achieve T-Mobile's full '4G' speeds, though, because the phones' own modems aren't fast enough. T-Mobile's network runs at HSPA+ 42, but the iPhone plugs along at a relatively sedate HSPA 14.4. I'd expect 2-4Mbps download speeds on an iPhone, as compared to around 8Mbps on an HSPA+ 42 phone like the HTC One S.
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