Nokia 8000 vs iPhone camera
While I'm visiting my fiancee in Germany, I decided to pick up a cheap feature phone to use for work. It just needs to answer calls and occasionally receive texts, though it does need to be a 4G handset (they're switching off 3G soon, and 2G can't be far behind).
This thing is neat! There's funky features on it like a Google Maps app. It sort of works! There's an FM radio app, though Mochi Radio on the store is a great internet-radio client that seems to work very well. Youtube works. Bearblogs work. It'd be nice to have more settings to adjust. Performance is much better than a Nokia 8110 4G I had a number of years ago, probably because it uses a newer chipset and runs a later version of the OS. My only gripe is that predictive text doesn't seem to work, though that's hardly a problem because I'm unlikely to use it for anything other than calls and voicemail. Sure, T9 typing is slow but it comes back to you quickly once you get started.
Anyway, just for fun, I wanted to compare the camera.
Let's see a cake photographed by an iPhone SE. Behold; every atom of this cake, every grain in the wood, every reflection in the constellation is rendered in high-megapixel pornographic fidelity (though very much scaled down to fit this blog).
Now let's see a picture of a cake using the Nokia camera. It acquires a pleasingly vernacular retro quality. Like a digital disposable camera -- we're in 2009 all over again.
I had fun playing around with this phone since I got it, though it'll probably just be a thing that lays around and rings occasionally.