Nokia N80i video at dusk - An example and a couple of thoughts
This evening I tried some video with the Nokia N80i on my drive home. I was partially testing out Shozu for video uploads. I've used it a lot to send photos to Flickr. I was quite disappointed to find a 4meg limitation on videos. The screen resolution of the N93 and N80i (and soon the N95) sort of drive video quality up the food chain significantly. WiFi connectivity make a file size limitation an artificiality that just gets in the way and irritates users.
I wondered if the limitation was imposed by Shozu. I get the same error message from blip.tv (my preference) and YouTube (which I don't use much). But Nokia's LifeBlog software gave me the same error message trying to send to Vox. That leads me to think it's an artificiality imposed within the Symbian OS. If that's the case, Nokia - wake up and smell the coffee. Don't put out a phone that's a superb mobile tool then hamper it. And while you're fixing things, fix that voice recording time limitation so we can record a full MiniSD card if we choose. Give users choices and power. Don't hamstring us.
All that said, here's a sample video I took over the steering wheel at dusk on the way home this evening.
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There is a limit of using email to upload videos for sure. However, I have uploaded a 100mb video file from my phone using the web browser and it works just fine. I have not tried Vox, Lifeblog, or others (Vox has some in-built limits, though I don't think you're hitting it).
Posted by: PhoneBoy | February 6, 2007 12:15 AM
Total agreement on the artificial limitations of both audio and video clip length, as if we can get 2 Gig (and now 4?!) Mini SD cards (don't know if the N80i/IE supports 4 gig, and I've never seen one on the market to date) you SHOULD be able to record to the available capacity of the card installed.
Battery life leaves a LOT to be desired, as there is only ONE battery option. If there were a larger capacity battery with an included battery cover replacement that would fit over the larger battery, this would reduce battery limimtation gripes, but noone at Nokia seems to think of such common sense things as important to the people who BUY their products. Go figgyah?!?
Overall, it's one of the best phones out there by ANY manufacturer...and one of the most competent, even given these GLARING limitations.
Now I was looking at the N95, and ALMOST bought one, but then I learned that while it has a better camera, added GPS receiver, et cetera...it's got a 240x320 screen resolution, while the N80's got 320x416. Why make a better phone with more features, and drop the screen resolution? Sure, it's got more COLOURS, but I got used to the high resolution on the N80, and I expected similar, if not better, in the N95.
I'll be holding off until Nokia gets a few more things right before I buy another Nokia product...damned shame, really.
Posted by: ElectroPig | September 22, 2007 9:44 AM