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Comments on: Nokia blings up Prism fashion phone with synthetic gem

Bundle opportunity 

Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 10:09 GMT

Perhaps they could bundle it with the new-shape Honda Civic?

Hideous beyond words.

Digital zoom? Please... what a waste. 

Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 10:23 GMT

Flame

8x Digital Zoom means nothing. It'll just turn crap photos into even more crappy zoomed shots.

Optical zoom is actually what you want.

Urgh 

Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 11:31 GMT

Alien

Who buys this tat?

The kind of thing 

Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 12:13 GMT

This is the kind of thing that we will laugh at as being hideously 2000's garbage

Re Digital zoom? 

Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 14:29 GMT

While optical zoom is undoubtedly better than digital zoom, it is not really what you would expect from a phone with this size and target group.

The added lenses and focus actuators adds size.

And digital zoom is still better than having to edit your images in the cases where you really only want a section of the full-size image.

Digital zoom on a 2Mpix camera is also quite fine when you are recording video (at a much lower resolution - so only using a fraction of the full sensor area anyway).

Digital zoom is in other words better than no zoom at all.

8 times digital zoom is probably a bit much on a 2Mpix sensor. But the resulting resolution of 200x150 pixels is at least still useable.

Nokia could easily have claimed even further digital zoom - how about 400 times zoom = 4x3 pixels?