The number "41" has been used a bit too much in this thread. A lot of people seem to forget that its less about the number and more about the ingenious way its put to use with oversampling.. Not to mention brilliant 1080p videos with lossless zoom and great audio to boot.
Let me make this clear. I am a Nokia fanboy. And yes Belle is good but surely not as good as others. And yeah the price of ~33k is on the higher side. But there were some comments here that made no real sense and i had to say something.
It is by far the best 'camera'phone out there. So much so, that it beat the pants out of some olympus and nearly matched the mighty Canon EOS 5D Mark III in good light. Results were not so convincingly in its favor at low-light, but it still held its ground and was way better than any other cameraphone.
Now add the wonderful 1080p video with lossless zoom and very good audio. At the risk of sounding ridiculous, i'll ask this - how much does an ipod touch cost? or camera that can match this thing?
The funny part is, people will now jump to show the pointlessness of comparing this phone with Ipod, but in the end both are primarily meant to play music (agreed, that the touch has a nice screen, but the 808 has expandable memory and plays nearly every format video out of the box and a camera and can make calls)
Forgive me all you great, knowledgeable people who call this device 'worthless' 'useless' and 'fail' but what exactly makes an Iphone 4s worth ~44k and still be a good buy and this phone 'useless' even with its spectacular camera and audio and a decent performance elsewhere?
I may be praising the phone too much (afterall, i'm just another fanboy), but Krow has made a very good post earlier.
Why is it so hard to just see this phone for what it is - the best cameraphone ever made, as the final stand of symbian - which it deserved - and not be carried away with pointless bashing?
Despite all its flaws, you cant deny the brilliance of this device, a point thats only confirmed by the insecure fanboy comments that i see nearly everywhere online. It takes a rather special device to get these app touting fruit fans and specsheet parading robot fans to feel threatened. That alone, IMO, is more than sufficient proof of this flawed hero's greatness.
And like I said earlier, i'm a nokia fanboy. So please forgive this little outburst,O thee learned souls.
I've tried the phone and the only real cons are that it is bulky, slightly heavy and has an outdated os.
