In what should come as great news for those of you who already own the N86 and even greater motivation for those of you thinking of pulling the trigger on Nokia’s imaging flagship, AAS reveals that the next firmware of the N86 will bring ‘Face Detection’ to the device. This mode allows the camera to automatically scan and focus on human faces and should help the N86 notch up even better results.

The new firmware is also expected to brings a bucketload of bug fixes and even greater improvements to the …

I am sure all of you at some point or the other have wanted to turn of the camera/shutter sound while taking pictures or videos for a variety of reasons. While on a handful of product codes you can simply turn of the ‘Warning Tones’ from the profiles menu to silence the camera tone, on most handsets that tip doesn’t work.

Enter this exceedingly small patch (under 1KB) that you can install to get rid of the annoying sound. There is no need to ‘hack’ your phone for this to work …

I have started to count the days to June, the month that will see the N97 go on sale. But as we wait, here are even more image and video samples from the Nokia N97’s camera. Most of these shots and videos are less than a month old and some are even as new as being just a week old,  so they should give us some indication of what the N97 will be capable off.

After the pictures its the turn of videos. These videos have been taken in a concert …

A few days ago we brought you video samples from the N97’s camera, today its time for some photo samples. These pictures have been taken by James Nash from the Symbian Foundation while visiting the Banksy’s Cans Festivals in London. As you can see, despite the N97 still running proto firmware the pictures have come out quite well. If fact some of the low light shots look especially good.

Check them out for yourself!

Today seems to be all about the N97. After news about it being available on Forum Nokia’s RDA, come two video samples taken in the scenic Monte Carlo. The videos are from a pre production N97 and are shot by Bill Perry, Sr. Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia.

This short video showing a very nice sailboat in the Monte Carlo marina was shot using a pre-production Nokia N97. Notice you can hear the ropes creaking as the sailboat moves with the tide.

In this 30 second clip I’m panning the camera …

 
To begin this review I decided to look back at my initial impressions of the device when it was announced. As it turns out this is what I had said. “As expected the N82 being an N8x device doesn’t do anything ground breaking which we’ve not seen earlier.”
Now while the above may be technically true, but this still doesn’t accurately describe the N82. After spending some time with the device I am compelled to change my stance. The N82 is a ground breaking device, make no mistake it is. While …

  
This is one of the most ground breaking applications and should really be useful for the mobile photography enthusiasts. Mobile phone cameras have improved a lot over time and have come to place where they are sucessfully challenging the domination of dedicated ditigal cameras. However the purists have always had a gripe over the processing algorithms used by the manufactures. Be in noise reduction, sharpening, colour correction there has always been something that could have been done better. Well, here’s your chance. Tea Vui Huang has just created a java …

 
The recent FCC leak of the scaled down N78 that lacks WiFi or 3G has made its user manual available already for anyone who wants a read. Mark from The Nokia Blog has got hold of it and has along with screen grabs explained the process of in built GeoTagging that the N78 will debut. 
The process according to him is simple and if the ‘record location’ option is on and a GPS position is acquired, the camera will save the location information within the pictures’ Exif data thus negating the need for any …

 
It has been a while since the N95 has seen a firmware upgrade and I’m anxious to see what will be in store. But here are some issues which IMO Nokia must address and some which will be a bonus if done.

Almost everyday we have people putting the N95 to various uses, Ricky Cadden a.k.a. SymbianGuru’s N95 on a Kite or James of Nokia Creative’s under water filming.
Gaurav Rathod, a member of the Nokia N95 Community on Orkut, a social networking website and a member of Khagol Vishwa, an amatuer astronomy organisation has posted two amazing pictures from his 9″ telescope mounted N95.
Update: SkyandTelescope.com also has the pictures up.
The first one is of the planet Saturn:

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Second is the Comet 17PHolmes:

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This is taking photography to new heights, great work is …