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The Nokia
Lumia 610 is Nokia’s newest Lumia smartphone, designed as an affordable Windows Phone 7. If you are on a budget and
want to take in the full Windows Phone 7 experience, which in my view has been
under rated, then check this nicely designed smartphone.
Features
include:
- The PeopleHub for instant access to
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn contacts in one place - Xbox Live
- WiFi tethering and flip-to-silence mode
- Instant access to thousands of apps in the
Windows Phone Marketplace including Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive - Built-in Microsoft Office app to enable
students to manage documents, capture notes and make picture and voice
memos all with the press of a button - Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive in 95 countries
and 49 languages - It has 8 GB internal memory, a 5 megapixel
camera, shoots 720p video, and features Bluetooth 3 for quality media
streaming. It can also be a mobile WiFi hotspot. - Free in-the-cloud Skydrive storage for
synching media and school documents between phone and PC.
Available
at TELUS, free with a flexible three year plan or Koodo $50 on the tab. You can
basically buy it outright for $229.
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SAY CHEESE TO THIS 41 MEGAPIXEL NOKIA SMARTPHONE
41 MEGAPIXELS SMARTPHONE…COUNT THEM 
Nokia has been around for a long time and although
they were able to literally turn around on a dime last year to produce
cool-looking Windows 7 Phones, the company still likes to push the envelope in future
technology.
They sent me the 808 PureView, an incredible 41
megapixel camera phone that walks the walk on quality pictures similar to
quality consumer digital cameras.
No other smartphone can match the picture quality of
the 808 including the still reigning top 8 megapixel camera in the iPhone 4s.
In my tests, the quality of the fixed wide angle focal length Carl Zeiss lens was
able to keep up with larger megapixel interchangeable lens cameras, including any point-and-shoot, better extended zoom models as well as mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras.
But unlike all other 8 megapixel camera smartphones
that drastically drop in picture quality when you zoom in, the 808, when set to
its Pure 8 megapixel mode, effectively has enough quality from its larger 41
megapixel capacity, to zoom in up to 3X without loss of detail. This qualifies
the 808 to effectively replace many pocket digital point and shoot cameras. The 808 can also be set to shoot full-blown 41 megapixel images, but each 109 MB images is compressed to a relatively large 16 MB JPEG file, much larger than ordinary digital cameras.
The 808 was particularly exceptional in indoor available
light producing noise-free photos. But in case it gets too dark, it has a real
flash. Nokia uses its own re0sampling algorithms to take advantage of a larger sensor while keeping noise levels down in poorly lighted scenes.
The downside is the phone’s Symbian OS 3 system which proved unpopular in North America and
lower screen resolution compared to top smartphones, including sibling Nokia
Lumia Windows Phones. It basically shows off Nokia’s tech know-how and proving
that it’s possible to squeeze a quality digital camera in a phone.
Let’s see one of these puppies in the next Nokia Windows
8 Phone!
Check out how the 808 walks the walk against most pocket point-and-shoot digital cameras, even better long zoom models, in this case the Fujifilm HS25 16 MP 30X optical zoom.
Nokia’s 808 at full 41 megapixel mode on its fixed 28mm wide equiv. lens (left) with a sensor three times physically larger than common 1/2.3″ sensor digital cameras (right) clearly produces better quality photos.
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