Nokia Lumia 928 camera comparison with Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5

[akugami]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/...-iphone-5-and-galaxy-s-iii-low-light-shotout/

Absolutely gorgeous camera on the Nokia Lumia 928 (for a phone).

 

[zerogear]

The phone itself is pretty gorgeous too.

 

[bearxor]

I thought it was the same lens and system as the 920. Has something changed?

 

[darkewaffle]

Yeah I really like the aesthetic changes to the 928. The 920 was out of the ordinary but I felt like the way it looked like a 'squished' cylinder was less appealing than a more conventional appearance.

 

[poofyhairguy]

The phone itself is pretty gorgeous too.

Yup. Nokia makes pretty phones.

 

[s44]

This is like Intel comparing next year's Atom vs current A9/Krait/Swift. Who cares? When this actually launches it will be up against the S4 and the i5S.

Incidentally, I believe Nokia's original demos (with the 920) used the S3 at night without night mode on. Bah.

 

[akugami]

I've always liked the high end Nokia phones from a hardware perspective. Their downfall was not updating Symbian to fit the times. By the time they moved, it was too late, iOS and Android was deeply entrenched.

As far as the cameras on the 920 and 928, probably the same. But the quality of the camera vs the iPhone and Galaxy S3 is pretty large.

 

[ChronoReverse]

Incidentally, I believe Nokia's original demos (with the 920) used the S3 at night without night mode on. Bah.

To be fair, I think the "low light" cameras like the one in the 920 and the One can capture motion in lower light than the Samsung phones can (Night mode inherently means it can't). But for static shots, the differences are much smaller.

 

[WelshBloke]

The pic on that page is a bit yukky.

I thought it was supposed to look like this.

Which is nice.

 

[vi edit]

I really thought the strongest point of the 920 and I assuming will be the same for the 928 was the video quality. That phone produces incredible videos for a phone. Picture quality was vastly overhyped. I'll take the camera and the functions in my Note 2 over that. Even though it technically is a better phone in low lighting, it's still not a replacement for a decent pocketable P&S.

It's too bad it's stuck running WP8. It would be an interesting rival to the Samsung and HTC products in the Android world.

 

[Deeko]

I believe it has a xenon flash, right? It's about time. I've been saying for years that led flashes are terrible and that the single biggest improvement to smartphone low light quality would be a real flash. That combined with OIS should make this a fantastic indoor shooter.

 

[shortylickens]

Yeah I really like the aesthetic changes to the 928. The 920 was out of the ordinary but I felt like the way it looked like a 'squished' cylinder was less appealing than a more conventional appearance.

Well now it just looks like a freakin iphone.

 

[finbarqs]

wow, Windows store is so expensive! I was looking at the gopro app and they want 2.50! for it! Android and iOS is free, with MORE functionality!

 

[pantsaregood]

I love my Lumia 920, and the Xenon flash is sure to improve the Lumia 928's image quality.

I know it is technically a variant of the Lumia 920 (as the 822 and 810 are variants of the 820), and is therefore the same "generation" (whatever that means now) as the SGS3, but that just isn't good advertising. The SGS4 is out, and Nokia needs to shoot for it. The Lumia 920/928 easily take better photos than the SGS4, but it doesn't matter since it isn't being advertised.

 

[BladeVenom]

A shame they don't make an Android phone.

 

[BladeVenom]

I've always liked the high end Nokia phones from a hardware perspective. Their downfall was not updating Symbian to fit the times. By the time they moved, it was too late, iOS and Android was deeply entrenched.

Their downfall was going with Windows, and Stephen Elop. They were still number one by a huge margin and growing with Symbian, before they announced the Microsoft deal.

Elop decided to trash talk Symbian, calling it a burning oil platform. Then on top of that, Osborne their current phones by announcing Windows phones which weren't coming out till near the end of the year. Then he scrapped Meego which got great reviews, and outsold Windows phones in the markets were they were released.

 

[pantsaregood]

Nokia making an Android phone would probably be a terrible idea, honestly. Samsung has close to 50% of Android's marketshare. Motorola, HTC, and LG pick up most of the remaining 50%, leaving only small amounts to other OEMs. Trying to push Android would likely be more of an uphill battle than pushing Windows Phone has been.

Windows Phone is gaining marketshare slowly. It has broken 10% in some countries, and is pushing towards 10% of sales (not marketshare yet) in America. Nokia currently accounts for 80% of Windows Phone shipments, with HTC coming in at around 15%. Moving to Android would probably further marginalize Nokia's share of the smartphone market, as well as make them lose funding from Microsoft.

Given Nokia is responsible for 80% of Windows Phone sales, that puts Nokia at shipping about 5% of the world's smartphones in Q1. A far cry from Samsung or Apple, but it could certainly be worse.

 

[Deeko]

BladeVenom - we get it. You don't like Microsoft. No really, you've made it clear. It's really irrelevant to this thread, though.

 

[IamDavid]

Looks like its time to dump ATT and switch to Verizon. I love my 920 so I'm sure this'll be a great upgrade.

 

[lothar]

I really thought the strongest point of the 920 and I assuming will be the same for the 928 was the video quality. That phone produces incredible videos for a phone. Picture quality was vastly overhyped. I'll take the camera and the functions in my Note 2 over that. Even though it technically is a better phone in low lighting, it's still not a replacement for a decent pocketable P&S.

It's too bad it's stuck running WP8. It would be an interesting rival to the Samsung and HTC products in the Android world.

Attend the next Nokia shareholder's meeting and tell that to Stephen Elop.

 

[GTRagnarok]

Does WP8 still not have rotation lock? Bleh.

 

[Daniel Jones]

I thought it was the same lens and system as the 920. Has something changed?

The lens and technology on papers looks the same other than Lumia 900 is having 8 MO camera and 928 is powered with 8.7 MP one.
Looks like Nokia is on a mission with carls zies lens and x.7 MP cameras.

 

[bearxor]

The lens and technology on papers looks the same other than Lumia 900 is having 8 MO camera and 928 is powered with 8.7 MP one.
Looks like Nokia is on a mission with carls zies lens and x.7 MP cameras.

920, not 900. The 920 has the same 8.7MP camera. As far as I understand, this is just Verizon's version of the 920.

I suspect we'll see a new Nokia WP device in the next couple of months for AT&T that takes on similar styling.

 

[akugami]

Their downfall was going with Windows, and Stephen Elop. They were still number one by a huge margin and growing with Symbian, before they announced the Microsoft deal.

Elop decided to trash talk Symbian, calling it a burning oil platform. Then on top of that, Osborne their current phones by announcing Windows phones which weren't coming out till near the end of the year. Then he scrapped Meego which got great reviews, and outsold Windows phones in the markets were they were released.

I recall the numbers now, but I still think Android and iOS was going to take Symbian's lunch whether Nokia was going with Windows Phone or not...especially knowing Nokia was supposedly going to transition to Meego. Personally, I think what Symbian needed was a modern facelift to go with the trend of touch based interfaces that iOS and Android had. Also, most of the Symbian phones barely qualified as smartphones...