Throwaway camera - or how to make a self-stabbing statement
Monday, 25. February 2008, 21:42:10
"Nokia phones have crappy cameras". That's what a friend of mine told me. Well - I didn't care, I still don't really care about a camera on a phone. Best case scenario is that it'd be barely useful, but that's about it. Fine. If I need the pictures - I'll take them with somehting that has 8+ megapixels and some actual semi-decent lenses. And some focusing ability.
But I'm outraged by the actuall lack of quality of this thing. See - I happen to own a Nokia E51. It wasn't my choice - it was a gift. People should have asked, but anyway - I'm not complaining. It's a decent phone, has some neat features, has WiFi, that I literally abuse. I love it - in Oslo there's so far not a single spot that is not covered by at least 1 open wireless network. I've checked. WiFi rules - period.
But I tried taking a few photos with that thing. I needed a quick reference - something to show fast to people. Sweet zombie Jesus, I did not expect these despicable results. If you can detect any shape at all on that photo, consider yourself lucky. Everything mostly looks like puke. And seriously - I've seen other phones, with much older cams that do a lot better job than that. Hell - compared to that crap, they're amazing.
Now .. explain it to me. Considering the camera is literally and unquestionably worthless - what in the name of all that makes sense is that thing doing on my phone? Taking space and artificially raising the market price of the device. Artificially, because it's clear that the damn thing is worth fuck-all, given the results it produces. I've a no-name, antient, completely fucked webcam at home that gives a lot better output. And the mobile one says 2.0 megapixels. Sooo - crap in higher resolution. Oh man, so much joy!
So what are you trying to tell your customers here? That you don't give a flying fuck about them, given the lack of quality of the product you're trying to push them? You've literally offended me with this. It's rather cocky to make a pretty damn decent phone and then poop on the back of it, before packaging. You'd have done a lot better with not even including a cam on that. Maybe then someday I'd have bought a Nokia phone myself. Sucks to be you.
But I'm outraged by the actuall lack of quality of this thing. See - I happen to own a Nokia E51. It wasn't my choice - it was a gift. People should have asked, but anyway - I'm not complaining. It's a decent phone, has some neat features, has WiFi, that I literally abuse. I love it - in Oslo there's so far not a single spot that is not covered by at least 1 open wireless network. I've checked. WiFi rules - period.
But I tried taking a few photos with that thing. I needed a quick reference - something to show fast to people. Sweet zombie Jesus, I did not expect these despicable results. If you can detect any shape at all on that photo, consider yourself lucky. Everything mostly looks like puke. And seriously - I've seen other phones, with much older cams that do a lot better job than that. Hell - compared to that crap, they're amazing.
Now .. explain it to me. Considering the camera is literally and unquestionably worthless - what in the name of all that makes sense is that thing doing on my phone? Taking space and artificially raising the market price of the device. Artificially, because it's clear that the damn thing is worth fuck-all, given the results it produces. I've a no-name, antient, completely fucked webcam at home that gives a lot better output. And the mobile one says 2.0 megapixels. Sooo - crap in higher resolution. Oh man, so much joy!
So what are you trying to tell your customers here? That you don't give a flying fuck about them, given the lack of quality of the product you're trying to push them? You've literally offended me with this. It's rather cocky to make a pretty damn decent phone and then poop on the back of it, before packaging. You'd have done a lot better with not even including a cam on that. Maybe then someday I'd have bought a Nokia phone myself. Sucks to be you.
By vetler, # 26. February 2008, 10:52:15
By TheAtilla, # 26. February 2008, 10:54:31