Looking for a phone

**kandr** · 12 November 2010, 15:36

Originally posted by DaveB View Post

Our H&S peeps currently lug a laptop and digital camera around with them when investigating incidents out on site.

What would be good is if they had a phone that was capable of taking good quality snaps, close up and wider angle and then uploading them to a website and letting the user add comments etc to them, or email them direct.

I'm sure lots of smart phones can do this but I'm behind the times on specs, functionality and camera capabilities.

Any suggestions?

Iphone 4 or HTC Desire.

**BoredBloke** · 12 November 2010, 15:50

Although the OS is pretty crap, the new Nokia N8 has a 12MP camera, can shoot HD video, includes a simple video editing bit of SW and has 16gb of built in storage (expandable). Plus it's made out of aluminium so it should be pretty durable. I'd have one myself if it wasn't for the crap OS

**DaveB** · 12 November 2010, 16:33

Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post

Although the OS is pretty crap, the new Nokia N8 has a 12MP camera, can shoot HD video, includes a simple video editing bit of SW and has 16gb of built in storage (expandable). Plus it's made out of aluminium so it should be pretty durable. I'd have one myself if it wasn't for the crap OS

What's the connectivity like? Full web experience or custom browser ala blackberry?

**d000hg** · 12 November 2010, 16:37

Going the other way, can't some cameras do web-access these days, if you need good photos?

**CheeseSlice** · 12 November 2010, 17:29

Originally posted by DaveB View Post

capable of taking good quality snaps, close up and wider angle

This is usually a problem with phone cameras.
The sensor is usually small and unable to take a full picture when zoomed out fully, and instead crops the picture.
I can't explain in simple terms why this happens, but this site gives you a detailed explanation about why they're inferior to other (good) cameras or DSLRs.

An example of why you may need the full picture size and angle is if you are stood in a small room and need to take a picture of the opposite wall.
If you stand in the same position and compare pictures on a phone camera to a DSLR with an ordinary kit lens zoomed out, you will get more in the picture with the DSLR.

**DimPrawn** · 12 November 2010, 17:32

Samsung ST1000 12MP Digital Camera with WiFi & GPS £194.24 :: www.svp.co.uk

**BoredBloke** · 12 November 2010, 17:58

Originally posted by DaveB View Post

What's the connectivity like? Full web experience or custom browser ala blackberry?

I've not used it, just going off the specs - I have the N97 (for the next 3 weeks) and this is one of their latest phones. Why I'm not going for the N8 myself is because of how poor this handset performed in terms of day to day use but that was down to flawed technology in the handset. But one of the few things it was actually pretty good at was surfing the net - but it does use its own browser.

In all the reviews I've seen of it, it does do very well on the camera side of things.

**scooterscot** · 12 November 2010, 18:07

I took this picture the other day and uploaded it here under a minute. When I say under a minute, well it took me long to type the post...

That was on a iPhone 4

**Clippy** · 16 November 2010, 21:17

Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post

Although the OS is pretty crap, the new Nokia N8 has a 12MP camera, can shoot HD video, includes a simple video editing bit of SW and has 16gb of built in storage (expandable). Plus it's made out of aluminium so it should be pretty durable. I'd have one myself if it wasn't for the crap OS

^WTES.

Nokia N8 camera review.

A potentially fantastic cameraphone is ruined by infuriating software

Looking for a phone