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Nokia Launches Lumia 925 Advertisement Bashing iPhone Camera

Because seeing this commercial is going to make me sell my iPhone for a Lumia phone... Just like the Nokia phone that is 41 megapixels. It's getting ridiculous.

My iPhone camera is perfectly fine when I want just a quick shot. If I want something more of higher quality that I plan on printing and framing, I'll pull out my DSLR.
 
Usually when a company bashes another company's product, is because their own product is not good enough to sell on its own.

If you truly have a product that is better, it will sell itself. This is what Apple is doing.
 
kerryb said:
At what point does taking an day of very high res photos with your phone lead to a phone that has run out of storage space? This applies to all phone makers I assume.
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Android device automatically sync your photos with Picasa. Since Picasa is a true storage site not a faux-Cloud like Apples' iCloud your photos are safe and accessible for as long as you want. That said, I still prefer the iPhone.

Apple does need to step up it's game in regards to camera quality and make the iCloud a real Cloud solution.
 
If only this commercial were true. Plenty of tests online showing iPhone 5 having a better (or same) quality camera as the lumia 920. :)
Especially if you download one of the few thousand camera apps which give you more control and can enhance your photos, especially low light (such as cortex cam or pure shot).
 
wirelessness said:
Android device automatically sync your photos with Picasa. Since Picasa is a true storage site not a faux-Cloud like Apples' iCloud your photos are safe and accessible for as long as you want. That said, I still prefer the iPhone.

Apple does need to step up it's game in regards to camera quality and make the iCloud a real Cloud solution.
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1. This is a Windows phone, not an Android.
2. I have to pay for my data. And 98.44% of my pictures are taken in places where I don't have WiFi connectivity.
 
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I picked up a Lumia and used it for about 3 days before it proved insanely unreliable in terms of providing text, email, and facebook notifications. I don't blame this on the phone. The phone was great and interface was slick and smooth but just unbelievably unreliable. Windows Phone is beta at best. They've got a long way to go. On top of this, there were very few apps which I wanted available. I knew this going in, but on top of other issues it didn't help.
 
won't this change with the 5s camera?
i'd still expect the nokia camera to be better though so fair play. it only drives the competition harder between the companies and we get better technology
 
Wow, the Nokia cam looks a lot better! But to be honest, there is nothing wrong with the iPhone 5 (back) camera. It still takes pretty damn good pictures
 
AndyDiamond said:
However, you would expect Apple to follow suit with the next incarnation of iPhone HW.
Again, specs are one thing but what do you like using and how does it work for you?
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In this case, the specs do matter for even the normal "hey cool a pretty thing" quick-click people. It does produce much cleaner, more vivid shots by default (at a lower resolution output to boot), and its low light capabilities are vastly superior to the iPhone, and even rival standalone point 'n shoots. Even if you're just taking pictures of your kids at the park, it'll give you better results.

That's not to say the iPhone can't take great photos, and that everything done on the Lumia will be an instant work of art, but the extended capabilities of the camera will make a difference.
 
Renzatic said:
This is one of the few times I think it's worth going on an all out bash and compare advert. The camera in the new Lumia is so good, it could be a selling point in and of itself. Might as well draw attention to what's easily your best feature.
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But the whole quantity vs quality aspect doesn't make sense. Unless Nokia is suggesting Apple built a crap camera in to their phone so they could sell more phones. :confused:
 
the skateboard shot is not fair at 23 seconds in.
the iphone shot is cloudy and they waited for the light to change and the sun to come out for the nokia one which would have resulted in a brighter vibrant picture.
 
I agree that mentioning another brand/product just to bash doesn't work, such as this ad and the current Surface/iPad ads by Microsoft, but it is interesting to note that the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads were so effective.

It might've been because they weren't comparing products themselves per se, but more of the "culture" that those products produce.
 
Boasting an 8.7 versus 8.0MP and F-stop of 2 versus 2.4 is just not much to get excited about. And they are comparing it to a year-old Apple product about to be updated with a camera that will have nearly 40% more resolution than the one they are now boasting. Very weak. But it again proves who the overall market leader is when Apple is featured in the competition's adds.
 
Rogifan said:
But the whole quantity vs quality aspect doesn't make sense. Unless Nokia is suggesting Apple built a crap camera in to their phone so they could sell more phones. :confused:
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I look at it like this. The iPhone is the smartphone standard bearer. It's what everyone knows, it's what everyone likes, and what everyone expects. So when someone does something that far outpaces this standard, why not advertise it?

When it comes to the new Lumia, quantity does equal quality. It's a good, solid phone with a frankly amazing camera.

...shame about the apps, though.
 
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