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Nokia has partnered up with legendary lensmaker Carl Zeiss to turn their N8 into a high-end camera that also happens to work as a cell phone. A mechanical shutter, Zeiss glass, dual Xenon flashes, a 12-megapixel chip and the capability to record 720 HD video round out the package.
Nokia has a blog pimping their Zeiss collaboration here, and the interviews in the video above were shot with the N8 itself.
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This looks like an interesting and well built little camera, though I'm not sure why Nokia still can't get their interaction designs together. It seems like an organizational problem. Maybe they can run Android on these?
Nokia looked into getting Android on their phones a while back, but asked Google for more leeway in customizing the interface. Google, riding high on the booming Android market, said no. Nokia, the world's #1 cell phone maker, balked, said F-U.
Nokia is now partnering with Microsoft (Nokia's new CEO is an old MS guy), and in the meantime laying off thousands of their own internal developers. So crap UI until Windows Phones come out.
It looks like that lens is about the same size as the lens in my current cameraphone - meaning it won't let in any more light. It's great that their sensor is bigger, which should allow more robust recording of what light does get into the phone, but it seems that they're letting the pre-defined form-factor of the phone (combined with the physics of lenses - soon to be changed up a bit by metamaterials) constrain the performance of the camera.