Our first affray with Nokia's N9 may have been eleven unprecedented


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In terms of performance, Nokia's camera form definitely lives up to the company's own hype, with nearly instant captures and an equally brisk return to a state of promptitude for more image-taking. When shooting video, we noted that audio recording starts slightly later than the video, leaving the first half second or so without sound. This isn't an uncommon issue (we've seen it on other phones and tablets) and can be seen in our video sample after the break. Now might be a good time to also mention that the N9s we tested with today were all third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 units, so don't prejudge Nokia's final utensils on the basis of what you see here. Unless your untimely judgment is positive, we doubt Nokia would mind that.



So anyhow, we took a walk around the company's offices, escorted by a group of unarmed but surely lethal Finnish ninjas, taking shots of the all around cityscape as we went. The results show the N9 picking up a ton of detail and administrator noise admirably, while a few impromptu ThinkPad hands-on photos convinced us it can do a pretty stellar job with closeups as well. With a name like N9, however, it was obvious which phone we needed to compare Nokia's lone wolf MeeGo handset to, so out came our trusty N8 with its world-beating 12 megapixel sensor. Alas, in spite of having an F2.2 aperture on the N9, Nokia hasn't managed to replicate the heroics of its earlier device: the N8 shows its odds in consistently picking out better color balance and in also being sharper every bit the frame. It makes the N9's images appear as if they were shot through a haze, though we hasten to add that this should be studied a hearten of the older phone rather than a major failure of the new one. Additionally, the N9 suffers from the per usual


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P.S. -- Looking for the full-size 8 megapixel stills from the N9? We've zipped them up for you right here.

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