Nokia 808 PureView (MyBroadband review)

[QuintonB]

Nokia 808 PureView review

Does a camera make a phone?

[Fudzy]

Nice review, would have been made better if...

A) it went into detail about the phone software.

B) it had comparison camera shots with other leading phones

C) clicking on the image showed the original image as it came off the phone.

Just suggestions, use 'em; don't use 'em

[Mr.CookieMonster]

The Nokia looks really nice in my opinion, the one thing that kind of weighs down this phone is Symbian. I bet Nokia phones would be even better if they started using Android.

[garry1881]

Android and Nokia won't work if Nokia use Android they would have to dump their legendary Navteq navigation for Google crappy navigation both Google and Nokia have their own gis services and other services that would conflict each other

[kaaskop]

This says is all:

The Nokia 808 PureView is most likely the best phone you can find on a camera

[Beri]

Just buy a camera!

[Viva]

Google crappy navigation

I'm not looking to start a fanboy flame war, but seriously

[Fudzy]

Yeah what's wrong with Google Nvigation? That Streetview at destination feature works very well IMO, especially when trying to find businesses that don't have street numbers shown.

[elvis_presley]

Nokia are expected to announce their new WP8 phones on 5th September. We're expecting to see a WP8 version of this. I'm expecting to add one to my xmas list

A Pureview WP8 device will be awesome.

[elvis_presley]

Yeah what's wrong with Google Nvigation? That Streetview at destination feature works very well IMO, especially when trying to find businesses that don't have street numbers shown.

It's good as a free offering, but use the Nokia stuff a while and the difference is very apparent. Google are buying data from cheaper and cheaper vendors, and it shows. My area in Google maps/navigation is littered with errors.

[Viva]

It's good as a free offering, but use the Nokia stuff a while and the difference is very apparent. Google are buying data from cheaper and cheaper vendors, and it shows. My area in Google maps/navigation is littered with errors.

Interesting, can you point me in the direction of more info on this?

[elvis_presley]

Interesting, can you point me in the direction of more info on this?

Copyright notices on the bottom of the maps. For example, it used to be TeleAtlas/TomTom (the gold standard in mapping) for South Africa, but now it's AfriGIS (infamous in mapping circles for being substandard data). This is just an example, and they've done it quite a lot all over the world. If you'd taken notice of the copyright notices on Google maps a year ago, it'd almost all have said TomTom/TeleAtlas, but now they only use that when they can't find a cheap alternative source. They're also building up their own map set from their street car data, but that's REALLY awful - if you search you'll find blogs of people ranting about it.

Google maps is running at a massive loss, and they're under pressure to monetize it. Every few months they make their free API more restrictive and kick more freeloaders off, and I know more than a few people that run large sites who have got mails from Google saying pay up or find another map source. And Google API paid maps are NOT cheap.

[Viva]

Copyright notices on the bottom of the maps. For example, it used to be TeleAtlas/TomTom (the gold standard in mapping) for South Africa, but now it's AfriGIS (infamous in mapping circles for being substandard data). This is just an example, and they've done it quite a lot all over the world. If you'd taken notice of the copyright notices on Google maps a year ago, it'd almost all have said TomTom/TeleAtlas, but now they only use that when they can't find a cheap alternative source. They're also building up their own map set from their street car data, but that's REALLY awful - if you search you'll find blogs of people ranting about it.

Google maps is running at a massive loss, and they're under pressure to monetize it. Every few months they make their free API more restrictive and kick more freeloaders off, and I know more than a few people that run large sites who have got mails from Google saying pay up or find another map source. And Google API paid maps are NOT cheap.

Thanks! I'll be on the lookout from now on.

[Nether]

Android and Nokia won't work if Nokia use Android they would have to dump their legendary Navteq navigation for Google crappy navigation both Google and Nokia have their own gis services and other services that would conflict each other

Here's a hint, Nokia can sell their software on the market, and give nokia people free access to it.

And just for flaming, I hate nokia maps, its old as **** and its API does not work with any app I know about, so no use trying it with whatsapp.

Google maps are by leagues better in my area then they're dated software.

O, you probably need to renew your sub every year, but you seem to forget that fact conveniently.

[Easter Bunny]

i just received a telegram from 2010. they want their single core cpu back.