The drawbacks of Nokia 6220 Classic

After using the Nokia 6220 Classic, here I think are some of the areas for improvement:

1) The shutter sound is not able to be disabled. It should provide an option for the users to disable the shutter sound, it is too loud!

2) The option to disable red light search during focus phase.

3) The option to have a shutter button at the keypad, as currently only the shutter button can take the shutter, if there is another button at the keypad can take the shutter would be good.

4) Make the shutter button be the short cut to activate the camera.

5) The cover for the camera should be improved, it seems very fragile at the moment.

6) Improve the speed when the screen is switched from vertical to horizontal.

7) The ability to disable the log for the sms, now every single sms in or not, is being recorded together with the incoming and outgoing call.

8) Make the activation of the camera be faster.

9) No "delete all" function for the sms messages.

I will talk about it more in the coming posts.

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10 things that Apple 3G iPhone is missing

Ten things that you love to have on Apple 3G iPhone:

1. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

It could be tied directly to the 3G iPhone's lack of a video camera; you can't
share video files if you can't shoot or store it natively on the device.

2. Stereo Bluetooth / A2DP support

iPhone no longer requires an adapter or headphones designed for its recessed
headphone jack. But what about cutting the cable altogether?

3. Selecting, copying, and pasting text

They didn't add an option to edit text by selecting passages and copying and
pasting them elsewhere in an e-mail message or note.

4. Horizontal keyboard for e-mail and notes

The touch-screen keyboard doesn't rotate to a landscape orientation when using
the Notes, e-mail, or Maps applications.

5. Improved predictive text (or the ability to turn it off)

However, it has only an "opt-out" feature, which requires hitting a very
small "x" to deselect the word it suggests. This is where that feature fails.
The time it saves in correcting miscues sometimes pales in comparison to the
frustration it causes in forcing you to repeatedly deselect words.

6. Integrated IM application

There's still no IM client preloaded onto the iPhone.

7. Flash support

Even though YouTube clips are in Flash format on the Web, they've been
converted to QuickTime format specifically for the iPhone-centric version of
YouTube.

8. A better camera and a camcorder

The 3G iPhone's still camera maxes out at 2 megapixels, and there's no way
to shoot video with the camera.

9. Unified e-mail inbox

Microsoft Exchange is now supported, but there's no way to get all your
messages from Yahoo, Mac.com, Gmail, AOL.

10. Voice dialing and voice memos

The new iPhone has no native support for voice dialing or recording
audio memos.

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Nokia 6220 Classic indoor photo taking with manual setting

We test Nokia 6220 Classic with indoor lighting photo taking with manual setting. The ISO speed can be set in Nokia 6220 Classic, four settings are available, auto, low, medium, or high. Low translate to ISO 100, Medium translate to ISO 400, and High translate to ISO 800.

In this test, it appears that the noise level is very low even up to ISO 800. This is going to be comfirmed with more test at a later time. In the following, I will first show the auto flash setting, and with all 4 different ISO setting, the flash is turned on by the phone.

1) Auto ISO, Flash Auto (ON), ISO 107, Shutter 1/33.

2) Fix ISO LOW, Flash Auto (ON), ISO 100, Shutter 1/33.
3) Fix ISO MEDIUM, Flash Auto (ON), ISO 400, Shutter 1/33.
4) Fix ISO HIGH, Flash Auto (ON), ISO 800, Shutter 1/33.
Suprisingly, we got the following 2 STRANGE findings:

• The maximum shutter speed seems like cap at 1/33, don't really know why is that so.
• The ISO 800 image appears to be darker than ISO 400 with the same shutter speed!

Next we test with manaully disable the flash.

1) ISO Auto, Flash OFF. ISO - 282, shutter = 1/19.
2) Fix ISO LOW, Flash OFF. ISO - 100, shutter = 1/9.
3) Fix ISO MEDDIUM, Flash OFF. ISO - 400, shutter = 1/12.
4) Fix ISO HIGH, Flash OFF. ISO - 800, shutter = 1/25.
Things become normal when the flash is turned off, higher ISO setting, higher shutter speed. And no much noise can be seen in these few cases. And the auto setting seems like have done a good job.

More results will be shown in the later post.


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Nokia 6220 Classic indoor photo taking with automatic setting

These are the indoor photo taking with nokia 6220 classic with automatic setting. In this post, mainly to demonstrate the Nokia 6220 Classic photo taking capability under indoor environment with automatic setting.

The first photo was taken under bright condition, i.e. sunny day, door and window wide open. The shutter speed is 1/25, iso 100, no flash is activated.
The second photo was taken under dark condition, i.e. sunny day, but door and window closed. The shutter speed is 1/33, iso 100, flash is activated.
If you zoom in for the two photos, this is what you get. On the first photo, still quite clear, but if you really zoom all the way in, then some blur can be observed, but overall the quality is acceptable.
On the second photo with flash on, the edge appears not natural enough. Not sure if such effect will be shown on normal digital camera. I will try it out at a later post.
So far, these two photos show that Nokia 6220 Classic take quite a nice photos indoor with good image quality with its automatic setting. However, when you try to manually set the ISO, problems will occurr. I will show you in the next post.

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Nokia Carl Zeiss lens camera versus Canon camera

As the camera of the handphone getting more and more powerful, it is always curious to many of us, how good is the quality of camera of a handphone. As these camera phone can be quite expensive. Here I make a comparisons of the image quality of Nokia 6220 Classic, compared with Canon SD870 or Ixus 860 digital camera. In this and previous post, I will show the image quality under brigh sun light conditions.

Canon SD870 / Ixus 860:
Nokia 6220 Classic: Darker
Canon SD870 / Ixus 860: Zoom in 100% crop, the details of the leaves are clear
Nokia 6220 Classic: Darker and blurer, kind of muddy
So basically if you no zoom in or corp the images, the quality of the Nokia Classic 6220 is still acceptable. Except that it is darker. I will present the indoor image quality, video quality, comparisons wit other normal handphone camera is the upcoming posts.


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Nokia 6220 Classic vs Canon SD870 or Ixus 860

The the growing power of handphone camera, such as the Cybershot series by Sony Ericsson, and Carl Zeiss series by Nokia. It is always curious how is the quality of those handphone camera compared with those compact digital camera.

Here I will give a series of comparisons between the latest Nokia 6220 Classic (5Mege pixel, with powerful xeon flash, Carl Zeiss) with Canon SD870 / Ixus 860 (28mm wide).

Today will be the outdoor sunny day, the images are 100% crop, both taken at 5 mega pixels.

Camera (Canon SD870 / Ixus 860)
Phone (Nokia 6220 Classic): Image appears to be darker


Camera (Canon SD870 / Ixus 860): 100% crop
Phone (Nokia 6220 Classic): More noise at the roof top and the floor texture is not so clear


Camera (Canon SD870 / Ixus 860): not in focus region
Phone (Nokia 6220 Classic): equally blur

On overall, it appears that Nokia 6220 Classic phone camera appears to be darker and more noise. More comparisons will be coming up in the following posts. However, the image quality appears to good compared with maany other phones. Other outdoor comparisons at my later post http://hightechwebs.blogspot.com/2008/07/nokia-carl-zeiss-lens-camera-versus.html.

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