I've been using the 7650 a lot over the six weeks I've had it and wanted to share my views so far.
The camera can seem a little disappointing at first but if you have plenty of light and realise that it's a phone with a camera (and NOT the other way around !) then it's not that bad for a quick snap.
The must have software for this is certainly "Photographer". It fixes the "barrel effect" problem very well and corrects the Gamma in the corners too. The images are sharp and even the 400% zoom is very sharp too - some serious formulas at work in that I think ! I've not taken one single image with the built-in software since getting it - it's that much better.
As for video, it's a mixed bag.
Hantro 2.0 is very good but only 11seconds or so - quite smooth for movement and good resolution and colour.
Although the VideoMMS is worse quality it's variable data rate has given me clips of up to 1min 30secs or more !! It's just that much more jerky.
It'll be a case of whether you need quality or quantity - the good thing is the two of them post their .mp4 files to the same folder so it's easy to download them by irDa afterwards !!
All in all, this is only first-gen software so things will probably improve still more - I'm therefore more than happy with a very well used new toy !!
Any views ?
Carpathian
Using firmware 4.39, I don't seem to experience the barrel effect on the camera. I purchased Photographer and agree that it is indeed one of the better software for the 7650 today, save for the following:
1. Slower startup time compared to the built-in Camera application.
2. Unable to set up direct shortcut so I can run it from the left/rught shortcut keys
3. Large (Nokia should have just licensed the software and used it as the default.
4. It has features I DON'T need/want, namely, Panorama and Masks. I'd gladly start using it again if the developer (OneBit) released a Lite version that omits the Panorama and Masks features.
Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can reconfigure my shortcut button to open Photographer instead? I haven't seen any 3rd party application that can do this.
There must be a way as it adds some items to the list when installed - there must therefore be a list somehwere in the system.
If anybody ever finds it they'll be very popular with most 7650 owners !!
Carpy
[quote="ghoonk"]Using firmware 4.39, I don't seem to experience the barrel effect on the camera. I purchased Photographer and agree that it is indeed one of the better software for the 7650 today, save for the following:
1. Slower startup time compared to the built-in Camera application.
2. Unable to set up direct shortcut so I can run it from the left/rught shortcut keys
3. Large (Nokia should have just licensed the software and used it as the default.
4. It has features I DON'T need/want, namely, Panorama and Masks. I'd gladly start using it again if the developer (OneBit) released a Lite version that omits the Panorama and Masks features.
Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can reconfigure my shortcut button to open Photographer instead? I haven't seen any 3rd party application that can do this.[/quote]
For the key shortcuts i can provide a solution.
I think it can be done a third party app like Active Desk.
Its a shame that there isn't any freeware exactly for that purpose (Key Shortcuts)
Its not very practical installing Active Desk just for the key shortcuts