Multimedia (camera and music)

8 megapixels. Autofocus. Uncommon. These four words can describe the camera of the phone, but I will still share some details with you. There is no official information about the image sensor, but according to… rumors Innov8 has an image sensor used in compact digital cameras, which is really something for a phone. This can be seen on the quality of the images, as currently this is the handset that takes the best pictures of all phones. Period. And it’s great fun taking pictures with it, but really. There are a dozen of present modes, we can set lots of thing manually. No shutter speed and aperture size of course, but for example we can set sensitivity between ISO 50 and 1600 which is also from the wow category. We can of course tamper with light metering (spot, center-weighted, matrix), exposure correction (+/- 2 EV in 0.5 steps), smile focusing, face recognition, increased dynamics range, so the usual bullshit. The flash is unfortunately not Xenon, just a simple LED, but the better one so it can be used for night portraits. Here are the test photos:

I think I don’t have to say much after looking at the pictures: outstanding edge sharpness, nice colors, high dynamics range, small noise level are the key aspects of the pictures. There is practically no noise filtering, which can be a positive thing, as anyone can play around with it after taking an image. If you’d like to see additional test images, there are some in the blog post about the phone’s camera.

Innov8 is not bad at video recording either. The highest available resolution is 640 x 480, which is available at 30 fps, but we can record slow-motion videos at 320 x 240, speed can be 1/4 or 1/8, the speed is theoretically 120 fps. Let’s see three test videos, the first was shot during day, the second is slow-motion, the third is a concert video with very low quality sound.

test video 1 | test video 2 | test video 3

The music player is also great, it can filter tracks by all kinds of ID3 tags (artist/album/genre/composer), it supports playlists, displays album covers, we can seek tracks, it runs in the background, it has a 9-ban equalizer which supports custom presets. The handset sounds great in handsfree, as well as via the headset, but this looks quite lame and it’s rather uncomfortable. Fortunately, thanks to the 3.5 mm jack output, we can use any kind of headset – it’s a pity though that the connector is on the side, I think it would be better of on the top or the bottom. There is a radio, it works perfectly, I can’t say much more about it.

The newcomer has no problems with videos either. It supports DivX movies, which look awesome on the relatively large screen. It can play back files optimized for computer playback too, but there are some lags – this is still “just” a phone. It happened with a couple of older movies that they weren’t displayed correctly, this is probably due to some codec problem.

The gallery doesn’t have such a stylish design than the one in N96, I could say it’s a bit plain. Of course it’s still easy to use, which is mostly due to the fact that it’s very fast – I think the PowerVR 3D accelerator chip has some role over here too. I didn’t mention yet, but the handset has a gyroscope, which will be practically used only here, as the basic screens (SMS, etc.) won’t rotate, but pictures will. Unfortunately sensitivity cannot be set, although it would be good, as I think it’s a bit too sensitive. Unfortunately we can zoom in pictures only through the menu, which is not the fastest and most comfortable method of doing it. The digital photo frame application has the playback mode called Photo River, where images float in on small stripes, but there are very small, so I think this is not he best way to view images. But it’s spectacular and multimedia, let’s be happy.

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