Showing posts with label Nokia 6220 Classic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nokia 6220 Classic. Show all posts

Nokia Tutorial: teach you how to use your handpone step by step in flash

They should have started this long ago. Use the flash to show some movie how to use a phone step by step. This can serves as an educational material for a user master the phone function in a very short time. Most importantly, I can have a "try" on the phone before I buy it. And Nokia is working on this direction now.

Look at this example, Nokia tells you that you can make or answer a call while listening to the radio on your Nokia 6220 Classic phone. The radio is muted when there is an active call.

You can see the full demo at: Nokia Tutorial

So next time make sure you read the tutorial before buy a phone.

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Nokia vs Samsung - Handphone camera comparisons

Here, we are comparing the cameras of two handphones, namely Nokia 5220 Classic vs Samsung Z370 (Ultra Edition 8.4). Nokia 5220 Classic equips 5 Mega pixels camera, while Samsung Z370 is a 2 Mega pixels camera phone.

Function wise, Nokia 5220 Classic comes with powerful xeon flash, while Samsung Z370 (Ultra 8.4) has no flash. Nokia 5220 Classic can also auto-focus. Unfortunately, the shutter sound of Nokia 5220 Classic cannot be turned off, while Samsung Z370 can take the shutter without giving out any sound.

Let us take a look at the photo quality in a bright sunny outdoor environment. The first larger image is by Nokia 5220 Classic. The image is slight larger than the one with Samsung Z370 (below), as it is a 5 mega pixels. You can also see that the white balance is better in Nokia in this case.

The details of the textile can also be seen clearly in the above photo.

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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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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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Nokia 6220 Classic - Nokia version of "cyber-shot"

Nokia 6220 Classic -
a trim version of N78: as lack of wifi
a much more powerful camera than E series or other Nokia phone.
comes with GPS and Nokia MAP.

It use Carl Zeiss Lens with 5 Mega pixel CCD and power XEON flash.

Powerful processor and memory (comes with 1GB SD card). Will upload its image and video quality soon............

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