Nokia 808 PureView on Everest
Published by Rafe Blandford at 13:04 UTC, June 1st 2012
Mountaineer Atte Miettinen is aiming to be the first Finn to climb highest mountain on each of the seven continents. On his recent expedition to Everest he took along a Nokia 808 PureView to record images and videos of his climb.
The Nokia 808 PureView not only survived the harsh conditions on the world's highest mountain, but is now being auctioned off in aid of the Dubai Autism Center charity.
Nokia Conversations has published an interview with Atte, in which he talks about his experiences on the world's highest mountain. When asked about what he thought of the Nokia 808 PureView, he said:
I enjoy it a great deal. I carried a big DSLR as well but I had a big preference for the small and compact Nokia 808 PureView. It was much easier to carry around.
I was amazed at the quality of the pictures. It’s an excellent camera and I think the product will do very well when it gets launched.
It’ll be nice to look back at the pictures and remember the different things that happened on the trip and you appreciate things a lot more that way.
More information on Atte's Seven Summits challenge is available on his website. Below we have included three photo captured during the ascent. You can view additional pictures from the expedition on Atte's Facebook page.
Source / Credit: Seven Summits
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> "I was amazed at the quality of the pictures. It’s an excellent camera and I think the product will do very well when it gets launched."
Yeah, the product WOULD do very well when it was launched IF Nokia change their resolutely bloody minded corporate-suicide behaviour and release the 808 properly to all major and minor markets and market it properly, and get carrier deals (as in: lots of carrier deals) and price it at a decent price (if they can do a Lumia 900 for $99 or whatever, they can bloody well do an 808 for a decent price) and order Nokia country-level subsidiaries to take it and sell it widely.
But oh no, we can't possibly have that can we? Why? Because of the reason everyone knows, but no one seems willing to admit, the elephant in the room: The 808 makes the Lumia range look weak, underpowered and uncompetitive because the Lumia hardware is massively inferior in several key respects, and the software (Windows Phone) is massively lacking compared to Symbian (lets remind ourselves of the 100 or so weaknesses in Windows Phone: my-symbian.com ). And no, I'm not hating on Lumia. If you love it, great. I'm just stating literal facts about a comparison between Lumia and 808 Pureview.
If Nokia senior management had an ounce of common sense they would let Lumia stand on it's two feet and live or die on it's merits. And the same for 808. Don't artificially hold back the 808.
Big demand for 808 in Australia and NZ. Are Nokia allowing it to be sold there? Nope. Your Nokia phone HAS to be Lumia, or go elsewhere.
UK? Nothing official yet. Surprise, surprise.
USA? Only just about, reluctantly, after much public pressure, and rumour has it, the Nokia board pressuring Elop as they begin to panic about Nokia's plunge into disaster.
Other major markets? Nothing solid.
Russia? India? Yep, they'll get it first, but they're not Nokia's major markets.
And please let's stop fantasising about Lumia getting Pureview anytime soon. It may get N8 level Pureview (or perhaps a bit higher pixel count) by early 2013. 41 MP 808 Pureview level camera? Wishful thinking anytime soon.
Amazing, amazing, how a company in such dire straits as Nokia, with the world record market share and financial plunge and performance losses caused almost totally by the move to Windows Phone, STILL pursues this strategy of selling a product the market simply IS. NOT. BUYING. (worldwide) and refuses to sell the products that people are actually clamouring for (N9, 808, Meltemi).
Definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (Albert Einstein)
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