Bits confirms much of what has been inferred or assumed over the last few years regarding Nokia: up until this week, they couldn’t have cared less about software or design. This quote, from Nokia’s former head of design, says it all:
“The engineers at Nokia brag about the number of megapixels a new phone has,” he said in a telephone interview on Thursday. “But they don’t understand that if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter how many megapixels it is.”
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hishamabri
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:29 PMHow does that translate to “Nokia Only Cared About Megapixels”?
that aside: sources?
Steve Tran
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 9:35 PMYou evidently didn’t click the source link, which revealed itself to be NYT. The quote itself was attributed to “Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia.”
It makes a tonne of sense though, with phones like the N8 having their cameras as the ONLY redeeming quality.
Megapixels mean little in this day and age, I hear this quite a bit and use a very common comparison: The bigass 52inch 1080p television in your living room can display roughly TWO megapixels. In other words, your fancy new 12 MP camera doesn’t necessarily take better pictures, but it CAN do photos roughly 6x the size of your TV.
mark
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM@Steve Tran
anyone who had done some research into the N8 camera would know that in this case its not all about the megapixels, its actually a very good camera.
As for the camera being the only redeeming feature? Let me see you plug a hard drive/thumb drive into your phone or plug your phone, via HDMI, into the fancy 52 inch. with ignorant statements like that it says alot about the phone you have
hishamabri
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 8:40 PMI only saw the link to the original page after I’ve hit the submit button , even pressing Esc to cancel my subbmission didn’t stop it from being delivered… So, sorry about that.
Nevertheless, neither what’s quoted nor what the article tries to say (Yes I have read it all) mean that Nokia only cared about Megapixles.
The title is over-exagrating the content in the hope of seeking attention?
Please make titles more relevant to the content
NYT’s title is just fine.
To extend this furthermore, and in reply to what you are trying to say, I view Nokia as a company that didn’t care much about MP
why?
In days where Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung and others were competing to crack the highest number of MP’s , Nokia’s claimed-to-be high-end devices (N900, N97, X6 etc) only sported 5MP cameras
It was only at the end of 2010 begining of 2011 Nokia started shipping phones with 8MP and above (total of 5) except the N86 that was released before
Richard Djordjevic
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 10:17 PMThere are other phones that let you use HDMI to the TV. Alternatively mine will support DLNA to another device. But you have to ask yourself, if this is such a rare feature then surely its because the average consumer doesn’t want to plug their phone into their TV anyway? If it really was a selling point to more than a small number of users then companies would be jumping over one another to implement it.