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Between the lack of a bump and the pixelation of the shadow on this render, it screams "fake".

The Verge is sinking to new lows. You should be more careful when linking to them, in the future.

Rumor also has it its a 21mp sensor, not 42, which could explain the lack of bulk.

Lumia is still a bit more chunky than e.g. Galaxies but still having the optics shrinked 2 times means order of magnitude worse result, so while it might be still better, it's nowhere near PureView magic. I hope the won't tarnish that brand trying to easily exploit it for newer handset promotion. PureView is the only unique Nokia technology left.

Ive never used an 808, but down sampling a 21mp image is probably still amazing looking comparatively.

Its all speculation though, and I never saw the issue with a bulky sensor.

It's not about the pixel count but about the sensor size and optics and those need to be trimmed preety badly.
It was the same with N8 and N9. N9 had 3/4 pixel count of n8 but the quality was in a different league.

Makes sense. I surely hope there hasn't been too much compromise.

I wonder how many people there actually are that would rather have a bulkier phone in exchange for better optics and therefore better image quality. All the manufacturers these days seem to focus on making as slim phones as ever possible and the general populace seems to be perfectly happy with that, but if the phones were bulkier the extra space could be used for larger battery, better optics, more storage and so on.

Well, I really wanted the Nokia N8 due solely to the fine optics, and especially the xenon flash bulb, but by the time I was ready to get a smartphone (and switch providers, too) it had become too hard to find locally.

That phone has quite a bit of extra bulge to support the optics.

The bulk of course got nothing to do with the number of pixels but rather the size of the sensor, optics and cooling.

Edited 2012-09-01 15:14 UTC

There is no active cooling on ARM-based mobile devices.

I was rather talking about the sensor.

At least for bigger cameras the sensor run hot for movies and while somewhat smaller in this phone so is the volume around it. I don't know what kind of cooling it needs.

Also all processors will require cooling since they run of electricity and the electricity will make the chips hotter. They may not require active cooling though. Somehow the heat will spread though.

There's also the chance Pureview actually make some other chips run hotter since the sensor actually use those 36+ (or so) mpx even in video mode whereas most digital cameras only use a few of the pixels in video mode. Close to 40 mpx * 30 or 60 fps becomes quite a bit of data.

And its also one of the first things to break on the Lumia 800. I love the design of it, the flap just needs to be sturdier.

I for one happen to like that thing in my wife's N9. While it's fragile it leaves a much better impression than bulky rubber corks other producers use.
That phone is all about design without compromises (I know, an Apple fanboy attitude) so you either love or hate it.

Edited 2012-08-31 15:25 UTC

It's very frustrating. These look like great phones, and I only wish they were running MeeGo (I'm sure there's nothing wrong with WinPhone8, it's just a personal preference).

Unfortunately I'm not yet convinced Jolla will offer a serious, viable, long-term answer or whether the alternatives' ecosystems are really worth switching for.

Completely agree there..
I would be very satisfied with Android on it though.

I _want_ a Nokia phone, especially if their phones look this nice, but I don't want WinPhone _at all_.
Quite annoying.

Maybe, just maaaaybe, in the future I'll buy a Nokia phone, root it and install CM on it instead. If ever possible.
But before that, no WinPhone for me.

Even if it's good?

Android only feels half-open anyway considering most manufacturers screw it up. Open-source against the manufacturers, rather closed and lacking cool hacks against the consumer.

The has probably improved somewhat lately and even if (close to) all the phones except Nexus ones are closed by design at least you can open them yourself. Somewhat.

Edited 2012-09-01 15:21 UTC

I'm not touching WinPhone or iOS, no matter if they are good or not. I simply don't like the companies behind them.

Unfortunately, that means even if Android get's ported to Nokia phones, I'll still be very hesitant to buying one even if just to replace WinPhone with Android. This because I don't like giving Microsoft (or Apple) my money.

Microsoft says thanks for the money from your Android purchase.

And Barnes and Noble says "Thanks!" for all of the Android patent extortion money [ever collected] in exchange for dropping the patent abuse lawsuit.

No new products from this partnership so far. Not even any PR announcements. It's been 3 months!

'Sup widdat?

Edited 2012-09-01 18:04 UTC

I was going to reply, but I'm too busy scratching my head, trying to make sense of your comment.

Yeah, I know.. Not much I can do about that but bitch and complain and, ofcourse, _not_ give any _more_ money to them.

What better alternatives are there?
iOS? *laughs*
WebOS? nope
BlackBerry? no thanks
MeeGo? nope, not yet anyways, maybe later if Jolla succeeds
Bada? nope, they killed it

Infact, Android is currently the _only_ realistic alternative if you want a good smartphone but don't want Microsoft or Apple products.

Btw, do Microsoft really collect softwarepatent money from Android devices sold in countries that don't have softwarepatents? That seems very wrong.

Yes they do. Its what happens when Google allows Microsoft the leverage by not protecting OEMs. Android is not so free, is it.

I ordered my very first smart phone this week and it came in the mail last night: a Nokia N900.

do some preemptive work on that micro usb port. That will break if you don't properly fix it right away.

Hasn't broken on mine. I don't know if people have just had a bad batch of N900s or if they've been too rough on the USB-port or what. Or maybe I've just gotten one from the lucky batch.

Verizon is supposed to be getting the CDMA version of the Arrow phone, designated Atlas. Look for it in November.

It's not. Even devices with *keyboards* were found to infringe the iPhone's *design* patents by the competent (haha) jury.

That's the scary thing about the ruling: even a TV infringes on the design patents, even though it predates the patents by decades.

As much as I dislike Apple and their behaviour I have to say that Samsung is also partially to blame for this ruling: both Apple and Samsung ruled out technically-adept people from the jury in the hopes that the jury would misunderstand things and uphold the parties' patents claims, ie. it was a gambit on both Apple's and Samsung's part and for Samsung the gambit wasn't worth it -- Samsung was clearly hoping the jury would award them Lots of Money(TM) for the patents. Greed got the better of Samsung and now, unless the appeals court overturns the verdict, the whole U.S. consumer base has to pay for it.

The TV thing is a mischarcterization of the ruling. Samsungs devices infringed on a totality of the design of the iPhone from the shape, to the icons, to the colors, to the design of the box. As a whole the products infringed, not individually.

Did the Jury make mistakes? Of course. The verdict form and subject matter was complicated (in fact an article on OSNews even pointed it out) but can it be taken care of by a Judge or on appeal? Of course. We're talking a few million in the scheme of a billion dollars, so it isn't like there was a grand conspiracy.

This villainization of the Jury is disgusting.

What villainization? Saying that they were not enlightened enough to make a competent ruling on the subject matter does not in any way or form make them villains.

That's one instance, they've been called nationalists or xenophobic (an American jury ruling against a Korean company) and they've had their words twisted to suggest they didn't follow instructions. Really stupid and childish crap like that.

It went from "there's no way the jury will toss out all this prior art!" to "something must be wrong with the Jury" to "the Judge is biased". Just a bunch of nonsensical red herrings. Blame everyone except Samsung.

T-Mo should be getting the 820.

AT&T has an exclusive on the 920 for a while.