Kodak uncovered its first Android cell phone at CES 2015, as publicized, however the final result is barely show taking.
Named the Im5,the 5-inch telephone was manufactured by Bullitt, the organization behind the rough Caterpillar line. It runs Android Kitkat, however Candy is headed, and its different specs are pretty average. There's an octa-center 1.7 processor thus so stockpiling, however it is expandable up to 32gb because of microsd.
Indeed the cam, which you may hope to be the telephone's best gimmick, is a not-unfathomable 13mp. The front is additionally normal with 5mp.
The Im5 does incorporate some cam prepared programming, for example, a picture administration programming that lets clients alter, show, impart and print their photographs, devices open through a solitary catch click.
The uplifting news with the Im5 is that there is a whole other world to come, so maybe this is a venturing stone for more imperative Kodak portable items not far off. It's additionally genuinely moderate at $249 (about £164, Au$308). Search for it universally with introductory accessibility in Europe toward the end of the first quarter
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LONDON -- The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is arguably more camera than phone. It takes the body and smartphone features of the S4 and marries it with a larger sensor and 10x optical zoom, turning what was already a superb camera phone into more of a phone-camera.
There are compromises, though: its 4.3-inch, 960x540-pixel display and 1.5GHz dual-core processor are much less impressive specs than the standard Galaxy S4. Here's hoping the camera tech it's wielding more than makes up for it.
Samsung hasn't given any word on pricing or availability as yet, but check back for more news as it happens.
Design
Here's an interesting philosophical conundrum: which is the front and which is the back? The front of a camera is where the lens is, but the front of a phone is the screen. It's definitely half and half, but as the S4 Zoom is named after a phone, and you can make calls with it, I'm going to refer to it as a phone, so the screen is the front. (The Galaxy Camera would be the other way round, of course.)
From the back, then, the S4 Zoom looks like any regular compact digital camera. There's really nothing there that indicates that a phone lurks within. A chunky hand grip is off to one side, and the enormous lens barrel sits on the other.
Look at the Zoom from the front, though, and it looks just like you're holding a standard Galaxy S4. There's the same chrome-effect edging, and the same physical Home button on the bottom. Of course, once you wrap your hand around it, the illusion of it being a true S4 is quickly shattered.
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Given its camera hardware, it's not surprising that the Zoom is a much chunkier beast than the phone. Even by compact digital camera standards, it's somewhat bulky. It will slide into a pocket -- just -- making it considerably more portable than any dSLR or compact system camera. Even so, you'll have a more difficult time pocketing it than the credit-card-size snappers around.
If you're a truly dedicated shutterbug who never leaves home without a camera slung around your neck, this is probably a practical solution. For the majority of you, though, the increased bulk will likely make it too unwieldy an option for everyday use.
The Zoom as a camera
The S4 Zoom is the only phone -- and it is stretching the definition -- that packs in an optical, as well as a digital zoom. The focal length starts at 24mm, which is quite a wide angle -- allowing you to capture more of a scene in one picture. It zooms to 10x, which should be more than enough magnification to get a lovely shot of that sleeping lion, without needing to get close enough for it to bite your arm clean off.
The zoom is controlled by a ring around the barrel, which can also be set to control different functions or bring up menus. Twist it during a phone call and it'll allow you to snap a shot and instantly send it to whoever you're speaking to via MMS.
Behind the epic zoom barrel is a 16-megapixel backside illuminated CMOS sensor. It's physically bigger than the sensors you'll find inside regular smartphones -- the S4 included -- although not as big as the ones you'll get inside an average dSLR. A bigger sensor means that more light can hit it, which should greatly improve image quality. We'll be putting its skills to the test in the full review soon.
Samsung has bundled in 25 different scene modes to choose from, including "HDR," "panorama," and "night." You can have the phone suggest the best mode for the scene or simply leave it in auto mode for a hassle-free experience.
The screen is a 4.3-inch affair with a disappointing 960x540-pixel resolution. That's a big step down from the full HD display found on the S4 and particularly irritating given the phone's imaging focus, where more pixels will help show off a clearer image. Still, it at least seemed fairly bright and bold in my hands-on time.
The Zoom as a phone
Stuffed inside the body is 1.5GHz dual-core processor -- again, a disappointing downgrade from the monstrous quad-core brute (octo-core in some places) in the true S4. Editing such high-resolution photos and videos would undoubtedly be made a whole lot smoother with a faster chip so I'm not happy to see a lesser chip in place. Again, we'll see how it performs in the review.
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It's running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, the most recent version of Google's mobile operating system. The interface has been tweaked slightly to make it easier to access camera functions -- similar to the layout you'll see on the Galaxy Camera -- but otherwise things are much the same.
There's 8GB of internal storage as standard, of which 5GB is available for use. That's not going to last long once you start snapping away at full resolution, so you'll need to make use of the microSD card slot. The battery is a fairly capacious 2,330mAh affair, which can be removed via a slot on the side.
Outlook
With its bigger sensor, higher resolution, and 10x optical zoom, the Galaxy S4 Zoom may well be the dedicated shutterbug's phone of choice. It certainly sets a bar for Nokia's rumored EOS camera phone to clear. But its significantly increased size over the standard Galaxy S4, together with its pared-down phone specs, means that it's not likely to find its way into everyone's pockets.
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Samsung as of late discharged the Galaxy S4 Mini, which is a less expensive and littler form of its well known Galaxy S4 model.
Nowadays, choosing a cell phone is practically like attempting on shoes. Does a four-creep, four-and-a-half-crawl, or five-inch screen fit best?
For a considerable length of time, the pattern in major cell phone brands' screen sizes had been the greater, the better. Whether it was the iphone 5's additional column of applications or the titan, tablet-sized Android "phablets," telephones had most likely been getting bigger.
Anyway as of late, that pattern has started to turn around. Samsung and Blackberry (BBRY) discharged smaller than usual variants of their awesome cell phones andapple (AAPL, Fortune 500) and HTC are supposed to take action accordingly. The Samsung Galaxy S4 little has a 4.3-inch screen, which shaves off more than a half-creep off its bigger adaptation. The Blackberry Q5 isn't littler in size than the highest point of-the-line Q10, however it utilizes all of a year ago's engineering inside.
One element behind the approaching scaled down cell phone wave: Smartphone development is starting to abate in created markets like the United States and Western Europe, where titan cell phones with the most recent gimmicks are a hot item. Developing markets will be "the key future development driver," as indicated by Macquarie Securities examiner Kevin Smithen, yet purchasers in those districts are more plan cognizant.
Bigger screens can help fundamentally to the cost of a cell phone, so littler gadgets discharged by minimal effort cell phone producers like China-based Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo are uncontrollably mainstream in those areas. The iphone isn't even in the main five rundown of top rated cell phones in China.
Top-level cell phone producers "are at long last awakening the actuality and beginning to battle once more" with a wave of "cell phone smaller than expected" dispatches in the not so distant future, said Smithen.
At the same time different experts are dubious that the top cell phone brands are genuinely getting the message.
"It's more like the cost," noted Sarah Rotman Epps, an expert at Forrester.
China's major cell phone creators have been centered around creating gadgets that cost short of what $350. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is as of now offering in the United Kingdom, its first market, for $530. That is less expensive than the Galaxy S4 which tries for about $600, however maybe by insufficient.
That is the reason Ryan Reith, an examiner at IDC, accepts that Samsung's dispatch of smaller than normal gadgets may have quite recently been a route for the Korean cell phone creator to "try things out" in terms of presentation size. As the business sector for cell phones gets to be immersed, organizations may mean to offer mixed bag and hit each value point.
"The cell phone business sector is not one size fits all," said Jeff Kagan, a free engineering industry investigator. Some individuals need a littler telephone on the grounds that they have little hands or wish to fit their cell phones in their pockets. Other individuals need to utilize their cell phones to watch motion pictures and play amusements which are better shown on a bigger screen.
"They would be shrewd to turn out with two gadgets, possibly more, and let the client pick," Kagan said.
Regardless of the possibility that value trumps screen inclination in developing markets until further notice, it may not be a tradeoff clients will need to face going ahead.
"There is no doubt presentation expenses are descending and we expect five-inch gadgets to be the standard for low-end developing business sector reception in 2014 and past," Reith said.
Whether
you are a developer wondering where the trends are headed or a customer
waiting to upgrade your smartphone to see what is the latest in design,
it pays to know the trends for mobile this year. Here is what the
experts are predicting for 2013 with mobile.
More and More Apps
Don’t expect the trend towards apps
to slow down anytime soon. According to research conducted by experts,
trends are moving away from PC to more of an app approach. Businesses
will continue to follow this trend and focus on designing apps for their
customers and developers will design new apps for fun and assistance to
users. More Connection with Other Devices
Users will expect the transition from mobile to PC to be seamless,
much like what the Kindle Whispersync provides. Readers can read on one
device and pick up at the same spot on another device. Battles Between the Brands
The big-name companies will continue to counter each new release with
something bigger and better than their last one. Right now, the top
competitors go to Apple and Samsung. This means even better devices with more features to tempt you to switch. More Flexibility
You may have seen the demonstrations and thought it would never happen, but you can bet that the flexible smartphone is
on its way to consumers. The result will be lighter, more durable
devices. Samsung is the leader in this technology but Nokia is also
developing its own product. As more companies enter the competition,
one will surely try to be the first to market sometime in 2013. Better Cameras
Not just in more megapixels, which is already seeing improvements,
but in advanced technology. For instance, you may see something in
camera phones like you have in the revolutionary Lytro camera. Along
with that, you can expect more options for 3D photos and video.
One thing is for certain, as technology advances for other computers,
it will also affect what you get with a smartphone. 2013 may be an
exciting year to buy your next one.
Image via WikipediaThere’s been morImage via Wikipediae chatter of a Symbian successor to the venerable Nokia N8 in the camera phone department. The device is said to sport a 12-megapixel camera, 4-inch nHD resolution AMOLED display with a Clear Black Display screen, and Nokia Belle pre-loaded. Additionally, a leaked photo, if accurate, suggests that the Nokia 801 would bear a striking resemblance to the Lumia 800 (Windows Phone) and the Nokia N9 (MeeGo).
While the 12-megapixel is welcomed, and presumably the Nokia 801 will have a larger or better image sensor than that of its predecessor with the same megapixel count, the device won’t have the Xenon flash that the Nokia N8 has. Instead, like the new Lumias and the N9, the Nokia 801 will have dual LED flash. The plus thing is that LED flashes are getting brighter these days, but the downside is that LED flash light does not provide for as natural colors in photos as Xenon flash, and Xenon flash tends to be brighter.
The device will have NFC support, a 1.4 GHz single-core processor, and 1080p HD video recording. 1080p video encoding is rare on a single-core phone as the feature is more typical on dual-core handsets today. Single-core phones usually record videos at a maximum 720p HD resolution.
It’s unclear if camera phone enthusiasts will be flocking to the Nokia 801 if and when the device will be released. Prior speculations suggest that the Nokia 801 will be the last of Nokia’s Symbian hardware efforts and that the phone-maker may have cancelled other Symbian smartphones in the pipeline due to weak sales following heavy promotion of the Lumia Windows Phone series.
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