Summary
The thing is that although we can’t declare any of the phones as a unanimous winner, all of them are good in a different circumstance. Let’s take them one by one.
Contestants of round two
Samsung G600 took very nice pictures in daylight, but in darkness it performed poorly. We should forget, however, that it costs half of any other phone from the pack! G810 is a more balanced handset, it is characterized by low noise filtering, medium levels of picture noise, and it takes usable pictures independently of lighting conditions, and furthermore it is the only one of the contestants to have optical zoom. Images taken with i900 give us some confidence, and we hope that the issue with the night mode will be corrected by the manufacturer – and since in this case we have some say in this, we hope that this will happen. U900, in spite of being a fashion phone, took quite good pictures – although only during the day.
Nokia N82 is the most interesting model. The silver colored edition takes really high quality pictures, it’s undoubtedly the best at night, but the images’ edges of the black edition are so much blurred, that it’s really a shame. The sad thing is that the lower quality models are also authentic Nokia products, not forgeries, and the camera, that takes pictures with a blurred edge, is not a warranty issue, so we should pay attention when buying one – that is we shouldn’t buy a black one, or at least we should be careful if there’s a chance. The only practical difference between the two N95 models is that the 8 GB edition creates files of a larger size, but it has a larger memory, so it can do it. Sony Ericsson C902 is very weak, it practically couldn’t make anything good, may there be day or night – and what’s even more troublesome, probably not even its predecessor, C905, will be better if only the number of megapixels are increased by the manufacturer. K850i with the upgraded software performs much better, I have been quite content with it; we just shouldn’t take images by night in AUTO mode. LG KF750 has been the surprise of the test, it took beautiful images by the day, that can even compete with a digital camera’s images, while at night it was seriously outscored. Still, when taking a look at KU990’s similar pictures we can say that this probably is a software issue, as the older model took better images in poorer lighting conditions, although it is basically weaker than Secret, its images are much more pale. And finally here’s Samsung F480, which didn’t perform very well in ideal conditions but it was really good by night. Based on these I can only repeat the sentence we have written so many times: those who want to take usable pictures should buy a digital camera. According to current trends, cell phones won’t reach a level for quite a time where they can take normal, usable images, no matter the number of megapixels.
Bocha feat. Bog
Translated by Szaszati
Samsung G810, F480, i900 and U900 used for testing were supplied by Samsung Hungary.
Sony Ericsson C902 and K850i were supplied by Sony Ericsson.
LG KU990 was offered for testing by LG Hungary.
LG KF750, Samsung G600, the two Nokia N95s and the N82 were provided by XXL GSM. The handsets can be purchased at:
Budapest VI. Jókai tér 6.
Budapest VI. Teréz körút 18.
On-line at www.xxlgsm.hu.
