http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/phone/808/
If you clicked the links and read about the phone, the primary thing you probably noticed was the camera. If you didn't, the cliffnotes are that it has a 41MP camera and uses a new technology that is called pixel oversampling. The idea is that you have more pixels than you actually need. The extra pixels are used to create one, much better quality pixel. This also gives you LOSSLESS DIGITAL ZOOM up to 4x!
I'm sure I'll hear why Nokia is crap and why Symbian is crap, but whatever. I've had Nokia's for 10 years, and have been using their smartphones for the last 8 years. My last phone was the Nokia N8. It was great, and I'd still be using it now if I hadn't gotten it wet and ruined it. (it still worked, sorta...)
Anyway, the main reason for my post is to share my experience with the camera. You can read about it all day long and watch Youtube videos and comparisons (which I spent hours on) but nothing prepared me for the image quality that this phone creates. It's made my dedicated camera COMPLETELY useless. Not to say that a DSLR wouldn't be better. It is better. But not by much, and I don't have to lug a DSLR around all the time.
So I won't bore you with my family pics from this weekend, but I do have a 1080p video I took of my brother-in-law falling down, LOL! I'm still editing it, but I'll get it up later.
The really fun thing I've discovered (and if you're into photography, you'll probably think I'm lame) is the "bracketed" feature. This is used to create images that you can use to create a HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. I had never heard of this, but I wanted to try it out. I had also purchased a tripod and phone holder when I bought the phone so it was pretty easy.
So here's how it works; You make some settings in the phone (if someone wants to know my settings, LMK) put it on the tripod, and hit the button. Depending on the settings you used, you'll get either 3 or 5 images at different exposures. Then you use a program to combine the LDR (Low Dynamic Range) images to get the HDR image.
This is my first try. I know the content is boring, but I chose it because of the extreme contrast between light and dark.
This is the first image that is at "normal" exposure
Right after that, the camera takes another picture at a lower exposure
And right after THAT, it takes another at a high exposure
I then used THIS program to create the following image
As I said, this is literally my first try at this, but I'm excited to get outside and start getting some better shots with this phone.
I'm sure there are other photography buffs on here that have WAY more knowledge than myself, so I'd love to get your input!
And it's being replaced by the worst OS in the history of phones.