‘Trilobite’ compound eye puts a Paleozoic spin on mobile camera design
Extinct marine arthropods make for great design references -- just ask Andreas Br
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: aforementioned, arthropod, components, design, fraunhofer, mobile, optics, Precision, research, smaller-camera, video
HTC EVO 4G meets magnetic macro lens, shoots gorgeous closeups
As phone accessories go, protruding lens attachments are rarely top of our wishlist , but this one here might just alter our perspective a little bit. Good and EVO have gone to the trouble of obtaining a magnetically mountable macro lens to test out how well the EVO 4G 's camera performs with a little more optical prowess. The answer is that in spite of the inevitably goofy appearance, the jumbo Android handset delivered some highly impressive imagery, getting really up close and personal with its subjects and picking out exquisitely tiny details.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: accessory, evo4g, inevitably, macro lens, magnetic, optics, perspective, wishlist
Altek teases ‘Leo,’ monster 14 megapixel smartphone for unveiling next month
We don't have a lot of detail to work on here, but Altek -- a company that's no stranger to ridiculous optics slapped on the back of a phone -- is chatting up its new Leo model that will officially bow at next month's CommunicAsia show in Singapore.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: altek, entry, from-the-key, leo, optics, result, wifi
Nokia N8 fights back with heavenly HD video sample (updated)
Nokia is doing its best to rewind the negative spin placed on its flagship N8 after one of its children went missing . As part of the effort, it just published the first un-retouched 720p video captured by a pre-production N8's Carl Zeiss lens as followup to the first sample images released yesterday. We downloaded the H.264 video's .MP4 container to view natively (that's a 600 pixel wide screencap above) and sure enough came away impressed -- though we're curious to hear the original audio that was replaced by a dramatic soundtrack.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: carl zeiss, flash, optics, original-audio, phone, photogs, placed-on-its, sensors, symbian, symbian3, user, video-sample
Keepin’ it real fake, part CCLII: Nokia N900 commits S60 5th fraud
It's not the first N900 KIRF we've seen but it's definitely the truest fake physical reproduction of Nokia's flagship "mobile computer" to date. Not necessarily a good thing since its the raw power and OS that makes the N900 such a compelling handset -- not its looks. Nevertheless, the industrial design, port placements, and QWERTY layout of this "N900 Style" handset is a near exact physical knock-off of its Nokia inspiration.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 5th-ish-user, makes-the-n900, mobile-computer, nokia, nokia-n900, nokian900, optics, support, the-industrial, zeiss