Comments for Laney's blog http://orangesquash.org.uk YASB Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:29:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Nokia N96 lightning review by Richard Eldred http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/10/26/nokia-n96-lightning-review/#comment-283 Richard Eldred Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:01:58 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=42#comment-283 Oh come now, go easy on the camera, it's a damn sight better offering in the N95 and N96 than just about any other mobile phone camera. The problem with grainy images is the same with cheap point and shoots. Often enough it isn't the lens itself (that generally produces other distortions), but the fact they're using image sensors smaller than your little finger nail, and trying to punch out 5mp resolutions. That just equals noise and grain. Every time. Sunlight and flash is where the n95/n96 want to be at, get it into low light and it ramps up the ISO even more, which just brutalizes the end result with even more noise and grain. I've taken a few respectable photos with the n95 myself, but it is a phone camera, it has it's limits, you've gotta play to them. Oh come now, go easy on the camera, it's a damn sight better offering in the N95 and N96 than just about any other mobile phone camera. The problem with grainy images is the same with cheap point and shoots. Often enough it isn't the lens itself (that generally produces other distortions), but the fact they're using image sensors smaller than your little finger nail, and trying to punch out 5mp resolutions. That just equals noise and grain. Every time.

Sunlight and flash is where the n95/n96 want to be at, get it into low light and it ramps up the ISO even more, which just brutalizes the end result with even more noise and grain.

I've taken a few respectable photos with the n95 myself, but it is a phone camera, it has it's limits, you've gotta play to them.

]]> Comment on Nokia N96 lightning review by Jussi01 http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/10/26/nokia-n96-lightning-review/#comment-282 Jussi01 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:44:19 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=42#comment-282 I have an n95 because the company I work for develop an app for location aware phones, so I get a free one. However, I have to say, I HATE how light it is - both it and the n96 seem to be poorly built in my opinion - they both feel like they are about to fall apart. The e series phones seem to be much better in this, they feel more solid, and seem to be much higher quality, go hold the e71 or e90 for instance. Anyway, hope you enjoy it. :) I have an n95 because the company I work for develop an app for location aware phones, so I get a free one. However, I have to say, I HATE how light it is - both it and the n96 seem to be poorly built in my opinion - they both feel like they are about to fall apart. The e series phones seem to be much better in this, they feel more solid, and seem to be much higher quality, go hold the e71 or e90 for instance.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it. :)

]]> Comment on Nokia N96 lightning review by PriceChild http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/10/26/nokia-n96-lightning-review/#comment-281 PriceChild Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:32:22 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=42#comment-281 Oh forgot to mention, every single one of the issues you describe above is something I experience on my phone so don't hold your breath for fixes. Oh forgot to mention, every single one of the issues you describe above is something I experience on my phone so don't hold your breath for fixes.

]]> Comment on Nokia N96 lightning review by PriceChild http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/10/26/nokia-n96-lightning-review/#comment-280 PriceChild Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:28:55 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=42#comment-280 I've got an N95 8Gb and was annoyed about the photo quality... until I realised I was doing something silly. Hopefully the N96's system is the same so this might help... unless you're doing this and think its still rubbish quality. The shutter button has two levels. Press it lightly, and the viewfinder lines will go flash, you'll hear whirring and it will focus. Eventually the flashing will stop, they'll go green and the phone will beep. Then press the button down the entire way to take the final photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29781724@N07/2951747757/sizes/l/ is a scaled down version of one of my photos on flickr. I'm really not a photo nut, but that seems really nice quality to me. The n95 8Gb to me seems like tons of features, all meshed together by different people with nobody looking at the bigger picture. It does have crashing problems, and sometimes the gps doesn't seem to enable/disable properly requiring a restart but i love the phone. I'm glad they've continued the tradition ;) I'm just annoyed they haven't released iplayer for the N95, haven't looked at the technical differences between that and the N96 so probably something I'm missing, I've got an N95 8Gb and was annoyed about the photo quality… until I realised I was doing something silly. Hopefully the N96's system is the same so this might help… unless you're doing this and think its still rubbish quality.

The shutter button has two levels. Press it lightly, and the viewfinder lines will go flash, you'll hear whirring and it will focus. Eventually the flashing will stop, they'll go green and the phone will beep. Then press the button down the entire way to take the final photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29781724@N07/2951747757/sizes/l/ is a scaled down version of one of my photos on flickr. I'm really not a photo nut, but that seems really nice quality to me.

The n95 8Gb to me seems like tons of features, all meshed together by different people with nobody looking at the bigger picture. It does have crashing problems, and sometimes the gps doesn't seem to enable/disable properly requiring a restart but i love the phone. I'm glad they've continued the tradition ;)

I'm just annoyed they haven't released iplayer for the N95, haven't looked at the technical differences between that and the N96 so probably something I'm missing,

]]> Comment on Nokia N96 lightning review by Jonh Wendell http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/10/26/nokia-n96-lightning-review/#comment-278 Jonh Wendell Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:24:16 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=42#comment-278 Oh, I though they had made improvements over the N95, which I own one. Also, you need a windows in order to do the firmware update. Sucks. Oh, I though they had made improvements over the N95, which I own one. Also, you need a windows in order to do the firmware update. Sucks.

]]> Comment on Maiden post by Old Soldier http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/08/29/maiden-post/#comment-143 Old Soldier Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=41#comment-143 Congratulations on the new membership and welcome :) Congratulations on the new membership and welcome :)

]]> Comment on degree.exit(0) by Iain http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/06/13/degreeexit0/#comment-97 Iain Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:09:37 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=34#comment-97 Yeah :D Yeah :D

]]> Comment on degree.exit(0) by webvictim http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/06/13/degreeexit0/#comment-96 webvictim Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:54:10 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/?p=34#comment-96 Does that mean a first? :o Congratulations dude \o/ Does that mean a first? :o

Congratulations dude \o/

]]> Comment on My first bug fix by Matthew S Taylor http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/02/02/my-first-bug-fix/#comment-83 Matthew S Taylor Tue, 20 May 2008 20:01:29 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/02/02/my-first-bug-fix/#comment-83 Well done :) You are finally living the dream of all that bollocks we used to talk about involving Bugzilla. Well done :)

You are finally living the dream of all that bollocks we used to talk about involving Bugzilla.

]]> Comment on Phorm by Matthew S Taylor http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/03/12/phorm/#comment-82 Matthew S Taylor Tue, 20 May 2008 19:59:01 +0000 http://orangesquash.org.uk/2008/03/12/phorm/#comment-82 Hear hear, I totally agree. The ISPs have oversold and now they're moaning because they have to provide the bandwidth they sold. Hear hear, I totally agree. The ISPs have oversold and now they're moaning because they have to provide the bandwidth they sold.

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