Multimedia
N79 has almost the same features as N82, from the camera’s point of view; it just lacks the xenon flash. The software, however, is the same, we have the same set of options (different sizes, environmental settings, self-timer, effects, and white balance), we of course have autofocus, the lens is made by Carl-Zeiss, and the software can imprint GPS coordinates on the photos if we enable this feature.
When opening the lens cover the software launches automatically and it has a great feature: focusing and exposure are both surprisingly fast. As soon as we close the cover the viewfinder shuts down and this is how things should be done. N79 can of course record videos too in VGA resolution at 30 fps. Below you can see a couple of test pictures, but unfortunately I haven’t been completely happy about these. The colors seem to have a bit too much contrast, but this is not the main issue: there is a too powerful noise filter and some details get blurred. Still, there is a great amount of noise remaining and that’s the least to say.
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The image viewer, however, looks really awesome. There is the standard mode when images are displayed in a circle, but I liked the other version better. This pops up when opening the “Photos” item in the main menu: the images are displayed on a circle again, but if we select one of them that gets zoomed in, and if we click on it again it gets enlarged to full screen and then we can browse to the sides, but if we do this fast the photos get shrunk again back to the circle. All this of course works at a fine speed.
Music is one of the best features of the phone. We have everything our ears might want to hear. The headset is no big deal, but as it can be taken apart near the remote control, we can use any kind of headset here, or insert it directly into the 3.5 mm jack. There is an equalizer, the player can run in the background, it can display album covers, or some other visualization effect and it of course sorts tracks by ID3 tags. N79 has a surprisingly good sound quality via handsfree, but of course bass is missing.
N79 has an FM transmitter as well. To put it short: there is a small radio transmitter inside the phone and we can set this to any frequency. This starts the broadcast and we can tune in to this on a nearby radio (I estimate this to about 3 meters at max). This can be very handy in a car or in a house party if we are responsible for the music and don’t want to mess with cables. Of course in order to test this feature I had to travel abroad as in some countries (including ours) it’s theoretically forbidden to operate a device on this frequency without permission from the authorities: but it’s legal to sell them. This feature is automatically blocked on Sony Ericsson W980 if it is on the network of such a country, Nokia lets the user to make the choice.
There is an FM radio in the phone as well (meaning a radio receiver), which has RDS support and works quite well if the headset that is used as an antenna is long enough. If we don’t have a headset but we have internet connection then we can listen to web radios.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
