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Nokia N95 camera review: High five

19 April 2007 | Read the review | Post your comment
Nokia N95 camera review: High five - read the full textCamera interface, description of functions, sample pictures, comparison to a digital camera, and sample VGA videos. Nokia N95 is among the first mobile phones on the European market to ever offer a 5-megapixel resolution. What’s more, its camera features a Carl Zeiss lens, automatic focus, and detailed user-configurable settings.

 

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I have to say that the quality of the images is truly amazing for a mobile phone. What more can you guys expect from a mobile. To take shot as good as full function digital camera? No way. So don't compare it with a camera. The thing is N95 can be good enough to be substitution for a camera in some cases where u want to take good shoots without having to carry a camera all the way

The video capability is very good, can be comparable with the N93. It's a pity that this bad boy doesn't have optical zoom. But if it does, the size will be much bigger.

Sony Ericsson fan boys have to accept that so far video function in SE phones is crap. What a lame with a tiny QCIF video. Even Samsung can easily beat that.

Currently, N95 takes best photos, accept that. I'm waiting for SE to release a similar 5 MP and a comparision would be interesting

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  • 2007-04-19 23:25
  • BJQX

the n95's camera is pretty good.anyways no camera phone will be capable of outperforming a real digital camera soon.in general speaking,a mobile phone is smaller than a camera,and it has to do a bucketload of other things whilst a camera only has to take pictures. also a digital camera has a bigger sensor than the phones do.i think that the n95 would be a cracking camera phone if it had a ccd sensor instead of a cmos.although i am curious how the sharp 910sh pictures look (if i remember correctly that has a 5 mpix ccd sensor with 2x optical zoom).so it would be interesting to see it go up against the 910sh and the 5 mpix lg.

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  • 2007-04-19 22:16
  • nCKp

Paul, N95 has a rather good speakers. Don't speak if yo dont know---

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  • 2007-04-19 21:22
  • MQYx

Not only is this NOT a full review, but it's not a complete camera review either! Where are the text document samples? One of the primary uses for my cameraphone is taking pictures of documents, this is important...

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  • 2007-04-19 21:09
  • Yhda

what is this ?
awful review maybe because this phone is crap battery life is for 5h (mp3), quality of sound is very poor radio signal and sound quality is crap i have to say that review is just like nokia n95!!!! very disappointing!!!!!!!
shame on you guys!!!!!

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  • 2007-04-19 20:15
  • pw7F

Gsm Arena you used write such good reviews about phones, what happened this time? With all due respect, I think this is a rather lousy review, I was awaiting this review so badly especially from your site. I hope you ever come with a better review, I was waiting for your review before buying this phone but now I will just have to search somewhere else. Anyway, thanks

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  • 2007-04-19 18:53
  • nb6$

I am sorry for mistakes in my message.
* are about looks
* megapixels
*GSM Arena are right

and so on...

However it is not regarding mistakes i wanted to do. The link doesn't seem to be working so here you go a new one:
http://www.palmshop.ru/img/fot....gif.big.gif

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  • 2007-04-19 13:51
  • MDkt

Please have it in your mind that mobile cameras will never be better/equal to good cameras like Fuji F9600, Canon G6 and so on.
But in the matter of fact, "ultra-compact" cameras is all about looks and number of megapixsels.
In terms of performance, Nokia N95 is equal to Olympus Mju Mini S for example. (http://www.palmshop.ru/img/fot...if.big.gif).
GSM Arena is right in statment "Substitute for a digital camera"
However, this phone is not about the camera and I hope to see the full review soon. If you want REAL camera - Pentax K-series, Pentax ist*, Canon EOS are on the top.
Mobile phones are going to change "ultra-compact" cameras one day...

All the Best,
Lukas

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  • 2007-04-19 13:48
  • MDkt

the worst review i've seen so far. gsm arena aint doing a good thing at all.

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  • 2007-04-19 12:46
  • TIEh

so why not a full phone review?? i think you should focus on the complete package, because i'm not going to buy this phone instead of a camera...

also, there have been a lot of reports about the phone's poor battery life, so make sure you tell us what that's like...right now it sounds to me like they tried to do too much with this little device and it's more a prototype with room for a lot of improvements to make it a really reliable, day to day phone, instead it's a gadget junkies phone.

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  • 2007-04-19 11:18
  • w6nx

I don't know, i'm not an expert in cameras...but as i can see there's over sharpening all over the edges...just like with the camera on 6280, 6233...as i said, it just may be my opinion, correct me if i'm wrong

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  • 2007-04-19 11:11
  • nDVV

What is annoying is that the article implies heavily that this phone is capable of producing very good photos buy saying that it is a 'Substitute for camera'. It's nowhere near the performance of a real camera.

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  • 2007-04-19 10:33
  • 2CLx

IMO this article is ridiculous.
if i'm lloking for some articles about some digital camera performances and/or comparisons,
i'll go to www.dpreview.com or www.steves-digicams.com or www.dcresource.com instead.

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  • 2007-04-19 10:22
  • nth@

I think that the picture of n95 is really good but the comparison with digital camera is not write>they should make a comparison with LG kg920.5MP vs 5MP!

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  • 2007-04-19 10:14
  • mD62

it's not fair comparing cameraphone to digicam.
even the cheapest digicam has a dedicated chip for digital image processing in it.
i think GSMarena starting to make-up things...

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  • 2007-04-19 10:10
  • PB1%

How can the phone's picture s be compared to a real digital camera. My 3.2MP can take better pictures than this! Megapixels aren't everything, and all the details on the pictures are missing. Look at the leaves; it's a big smudged mess of green, along with the ground. It's all like a large watercolour painting. You implied the only difference was the colour which is very untrue.

It's OK for a cameraphone, but nowhere near the quality of real cameras.

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  • 2007-04-19 08:17
  • 2CLx

i-mobile 902 camera is far more better thn n95 n the price is also dirt cheap...these branded phones just fool people spcly nokia...sony ericsson is good...but i have got a i-mobile 902 5mp camera with xenon flash using the sony camera is awesome n at dirt cheap price...

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  • 2007-04-19 07:47
  • PIdT

forgot to mention,.. sony is known for their images with lesser barrel distortion while maintaining sharpness and exposure at once. while canon is known for the sharpness and accuracy.

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  • 2007-04-19 07:32
  • whBi

i think nokia don't really focus the digital camera quality on their phone instead they just add megapixels and settings for further improvement over their past camera phones. their primary target is the consumers not the digital imaging crown or TIPA award. on the other hand, SE aims to be the best mobile imaging company and also just like nokia, wants to attract costumers. all in all both companies have slightly different aims on the market.

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  • 2007-04-19 07:28
  • whBi

The price is dropping rather quickly...

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  • 2007-04-19 04:09
  • UFIM
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