N95 and N82 top four-way camera test

I would have been interested to see a comparison of fast-moving shots. e.g. objects going by quickly, or of a waterfall / running shower / rain, or something. I thought that the Viewty/Cybershot phones were supposed to excel in this area (showing each individual droplet, for example), but I have no experience with that myself.

Complete agreement on the camera quality of WM phones. One day someone will put some effort in, I hope.

IE6 is apparently coming out for WM soon (although I'm not sure if that's a plus-point or not!). Do the third party browsers (Opera/Opera mini) make good use of VGA?

I'd like to see more widescreen WM/Symbian phones too.

Yeah, but how do I do four identical test shots of the same fast moving object? There will always be enough human interaction error to place doubt on the results 8-)

I didn't try Opera on the 9502, I only had the device for 48 hours, alas.

Steve

@Steve. If you want to take a picture of a fast moving object there are several very simple options.

1) Move the object
2) Move the camera...

1) Put a nice photo on you old record player put the camera above it and take a picture. Rotational speed varies from the middle to the corner. Take a picture of a windmill. A rotating bycycle wheel etc... Find a standing clock and take a shot of it's pendulum.

2) Put the camera on you record player, a windmill, Take a picture from a moving car, train, elevator or what ever...

Cheers, snoyt.vox.com.

Still not happy about being consistent though. Or that this is relevant. Taking photos of moving things is far more about the photographer's skill than the camera.....

I often notice that people comment on the fact that the n95 has had lots of improvements implemented via firmware; but I wonder how much this is actually true.

I know if may well be true of the phones that Steve, or whoever the reviewer is, has available, but the firmware versions are *very* specific. What about versions in China, for example? The n95 we get here doesn't even have wifi, so it can't be the same firmware.

It would be good if AAS had some coverage/mention of firmware for other regions.

This also brings up a huge (for me) negative for S60 - though I don't know how different it is for other phones (my old SE t68i also have this problem, but I don't know what OS that runs).
The problem to which I refer is that of installed fonts. I have (I think) a UK E90, and using it in China means I often hit a problem of not being able to display characters on various SMS messages and web pages.
For example, I use CNCC and they send SMS messages in Chinese, which I would normally just show to my wife to see if it's anything important. However, all Chinese characters are just rendered at a rectangle outline.
This is the same for the various web pages, causing problems at times.

Of course, the best option would be to have "all" fonts installed, as per a desktop system, but that might take up too much space, I guess. As a half-measure, it would be great if *we* could install any fonts we needed instead of having the manufacturer determine which ones.

Any comments on these issues?

Max.

You can install your own fonts that replace system defaults, if you wish. Here's a tutorial:

http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2007/05/changing_fonts_.html

N/A wrote:You can install your own fonts that replace system defaults, if you wish. Here's a tutorial:

http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack/2007/05/changing_fonts_.html

I looked into this some time ago and, back then, the warning was that you do this completely at your own risk. I prefer something significantly more official - via PC suite perhaps. My E90 is not worth the risk - I use it way too much.

Also, it's ridiculous to expect people to perform this procedure each time the visit a foreign country. It might be ok if you could do it ahead of time, or if there was a single font that covered 'every' country, so you didn't have to change them at all.

...but, yes, we know it's possible. It's just that it's not supported (supposedly).