Nokia Nseries Experiences With The Nokia N78 Part 3 - Browse, Connect and Explore

With the built-in Wi-Fi and Nokia's S60 web browser with mini map, the Nokia N78 becomes your able Internet companion. Progressive download is mentioned as a new feature of the Web browser, although I'm not sure how well that would work. It also has an RSS reader, giving bloggers like myself another reason to want one. Its 2.4-inch screen might even prove big enough for me to write new entries to this blog directly from it, without the need for a computer. That's already a lot of features, and yet there's many more that I haven't mentioned yet.


Although it's not advertised as often, the Nokia N78 is also Ngage compatible like the Nokia N81, and it's ready for Ngage games once they are available for download. Surely a lot of people will find this handy in times of loneliness and boredom. But if games are not your thing, then just fire up the browser and get on to surfing the Internet. I heard the Nokia N78 has full support for flash and Java too, so Youtube and all your other favorite sites are not off-limits anymore. It doesn't matter whether you're in a Wi-Fi network or not. You can also run the web browser on your local HSDPA network, which also makes for a great Internet experience.

And let's not forget, since you're on the Internet anyway, what would keep you from retrieving all of your important emails? The Nokia N78 sure won't. The Nokia N78 will let you download your email easily. With it, you can also access all your files (images, music, videos, and podcasts) remotely via the Web. Did I mention this will be very convenient?

I don't know about you but I think the Nokia N78 is a best-seller in the making. If only they didn't give it that funky old keypad. Your thoughts?

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Nokia Nseries Experiences With The Nokia N78 Part 2 - Imaging

As I've mentioned in the Nokia N78 Overview, the Nokia N78 seems to be a mix between the Nokia N73 and Nokia N82. This is evident with its robust, candy bar form factor, and its name denotes that it's a direct descendant of the N73.

The N73 was once the best camera phone available during its time, and the 5-megapixel, Xenon flash-equipped Nokia N82 is currently the best camera phone out on the market today. The question is, will the Nokia N78 be able to live up to those two? Or will it be just another so-so camera phone?

The answer, of course, still remains to be seen. But one thing's for sure, a lot is expected from the Nokia N78 in terms of camera performance even if it's only got a 3.2 megapixel camera on it. Certainly, it will do a much better job with photos than the N73 because of its improved Carl Zeiss lens, auto focus, and LED flash, but the real test will be on once we finally get a hold of it and try it for ourselves. The Nokia N78 is billed as a great multimedia phone so it better be worth it as a great imaging phone. Let's examine the inner workings of the N78 camera.



The Nokia N78 camera is built with a Carl Zeiss - Tessar lens and is able to capture images up to 2048x1546 in resolution, equating to roughly 3.2 megapixels. It's focal length is 4.6 mm and the focus range is from 10 cm to infinity. A built-in LED flash is included to help the camera along with the 20x digital zoom during image capture and 8x digital zoom during video recording. Basically, you have an identical camera to the Nokia N73, and probably the only difference between the two would lie in the camera user interface.

With the N78, Nokia intros yet another iteration of its S60 user interface to accommodate more insanely great features. One of these features is the ability to add location tags to your images automatically as you capture them, so you can upload them to an interactive map at a later time. Location tagging is done with the use of the camera and the built-in A-GPS, and with it you can even find out where you are on the map with just one click. This is a great new feature which would be most helpful to travelers, as well as to those who are thinking of travelling themselves.

At this point, no one knows just how well the market will receive the new Nokia N78. But if the performance of its predecessors offer any clue, it's got a bright future ahead of it. Plus, it will have a wider mass appeal because of its relatively cheaper price compared to today's current generation camera phones. With this, I really feel that someday everyone in the world will be a photographer. Don't you agree?

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