Head to head: Nokia N96 : HTC Touch HD : Apple iPhone 3G
Everybody loves a good head-to-head, especially when there's some hands-on insight involved and not just a spec fight....
Recent Features - Hardware - Page 47
Camera Nitty Gritty - part 9 - What's the deal with video capture on recent devices?
Steve Litchfield gets all picky about video capture on Nokia's latest devices. Is there a problem?
Robustness: the Forgotten Factor
Specifications are often king when comparing mobile phones, especially smartphones, but what about that other forgotten factor? What about how robust a device is? Read on....
The Nokia N97 Launches Last, But Launches Well
Potentially Useful or Plain Stupid?
Following on from last week's article about useless features, AAS now asks which hardware features you would like to see added to phones that aren't currently present. Could analogue volume controls? What about FM radio aerials?
8 Megapixel head to head - Samsung INNOV8 vs Sony Ericsson C905
With the Sony Ericsson C905 arriving for review in The Phones Show, I couldn't resist doing a quick head to head between it and the Samsung INNOV8 - and the Nokia N82, for good measure. The C905 is undoubtedly the phone with the stills camera of highest specification at the moment - but how good is it? Is it worth overlooking the many other factors involved in choosing a camera-phone/smartphone?
Shockingly new, yet shockingly old
Steve Litchfield muses on how far we've gone backwards in many ways, in the last 15 years...
Camera Nitty Gritty - Part 8 - The Ultimate Video Smartphone
In part 1 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at exposed camera glass on some phone models and investigated whether scratches really make a difference. In part 2, he investigated the pros and cons of LED/dual-LED/Xenon flashes in camera phones - does Xenon or dual LED flash make that much difference? In part 3, he investigated the fabled 'Megapixel myth' with an objective eye. In part 4, he focussed on the difference between good and poor optics (at the same camera resolution) and in part 5, he pitched all the top smartphone cameras head to head, in detail. In part 6, AAS guest writer Dirk Snoyt took up the theme of camera phone flash research and got all technical on the theme of colours... In part 7, I returned with a look at the difference optical zoom makes and ask the question "Is it better to have optical zoom or just much higher resolution?"
Now, in the final part, number eight, I look at some of the top smartphone cameras again, but this time looking at their video capture potential.
Waste Of Space or Still Quite Useful?
Have you ever looked at a feature on your phone and wondered why the heck it's there? In an editorial on the topic, All About Symbian takes a look at five functions that are perhaps no longer needed on modern handsets, yet continue to be added to new models.
Camer Nitty Gritty - part 7 - Optical Zoom
In part 1 of this series, Steve Litchfield looked at exposed camera glass on some phone models and investigated whether scratches really make a difference. In part 2, he investigated the pros and cons of LED/dual-LED/Xenon flashes in camera phones - does Xenon or dual LED flash make that much difference? In part 3, he investigated the fabled 'Megapixel myth' with an objective eye. In part 4, he focussed on the difference between good and poor optics (at the same camera resolution) and in part 5, he pitched all the top smartphone cameras head to head, in detail. In part 6, AAS guest writer Dirk Snoyt took up the theme of camera phone flash research and got all technical on the theme of colours...
Now, I return with a look at the difference optical zoom makes and ask the question "Is it better to have optical zoom or just much higher resolution?"
