Symbian is dead, but the 808 PureView is not there yet!

    Recently, Nokia officially announced that it will no longer release smartphones on the Symbian software platform, and the Nokia 808 PureView camcorder will be its latest device on this OS. Well, this is at least worthy of the code! It is also possible that already on February 25, the first day of MWC 2013, Nokia will introduce an analogue of the 808 model, but already based on WP8. In any case, such statements are likely to affect the price of 808 PureView and this unique device will become more accessible. To those who can be scared off by the Symbian platform on this smartphone, I am addressing my full review of the 41-megapixel camera phone, which I have been using for six months now. I am sure that thanks to this device Symbian will live long enough!



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    I admit, the Nokia 808 PureView is my first Symbian smartphone. Simba, I preferred Maemo-MeeGo, I looked closely at the N8, but the lack of Full HD video stopped me. Of course, I heard that Symbian is a bad, unpromising platform. Although, N8 was with my good friend, and she did not seem to complain. On the other hand, she was interested in telephony and photo-video capabilities of this device, so her opinion could not be completely authoritative.

    When the Nokia 808 Pureview first appeared on my test last summer, I, who got used to the MeeGo interface, was slightly surprised. How can one and the same company make devices with such a different interface from a user point of view? But then, when the Nokia Belle FP2 update came in October, the situation is slightly better. But I still continued to use N9 as the main smartphone, and Nokia 808 PureView used as a camera with 3G, which you can always take something off and post it on the social network.

    Of the social networks in Nokia Belle (aka Symbian), naturally there is no Instagram. Like many people, I love Instagram, and it doesn’t frighten me that my photos posted in my account can slip off somewhere. In such a quality, in which Instagram photos are converted, there is nowhere to froze them by and large. If someone really likes the photo, he will most likely write me asking them to buy an original photo from me. Talking about saying that Instagram doesn’t see the quality of the PureView camera is also not entirely true. It’s all the same to see, on the one hand, and on the other, it may not be necessary to look at it? Strictly speaking, for PureView there is Flickr.com, which, by the way, is currently holding a promotion for providing a free pro-account for 3 months. And on Flickr, photos are uploaded from the Nokia 808 PureView directly from the Gallery interface.

    So, returning to Instagram, I mastered the following method :

    In general, to be honest, I believe that at the moment the Nokia 808 PureView and Nexus 7 bundle is an ideal set of mobile devices. If the Nexus 7 is without a 3G module (and I have one), then you can distribute Wi-Fi with the Nokia 808 PureView using the built-in JoikuSpot program. In all other cases, finding a smartphone as comfortable for games or browsing as comfortable for this Nexus 7 is almost no chance. Nexus 7 fits into any pocket. In addition, if you need to call, you don’t have to get any “shovel”, and Nokia 808 PureView is a very compact device. There is another important plus for this kit: the battery capacity of these two devices is more than enough for a day or two.

    C'mon, back to the Nokia 808 PureView. I already wrote a lot about this device and about PureView technology in general, both on Habré, in Gazeta.ru , and in my blog . And for sure I will write a lot more, since all the aspects and nuances of this device, both as a camera phone and as a smartphone that 400 people have been doing for 5 years, could hardly be fully tested for half a year.

    Back in the summer, testing the Nokia 808 PureView, I decided that the video review of this device should be divided into 3 parts: general characteristics, a camera and a smartphone component. And recently, I finally recorded the third part of this review. I believe that these 3 parts describe Nokia 808 PureView quite fully. Therefore, I decided to put them together in one post.

    Part 1: general characteristics.

    Part 2: camera

    Part 3: smartphone component

    Let's see if Nokia will present an analogue of Nokia 808 PureView on Windows Phone 8 at MWC 2013, but even if it does, it will only make the price of the 808 model more affordable, which cannot but rejoice, because of such quality no other smartphone can provide mobile photography for a long time.

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