According to the announcement, here are the important dates:

• March 13: Web uploads no longer possible
• May 30: Last day for downloading user content
• May 31: Service discontinued and no longer accessible

This is going to have to be quick as I have to rush to the next lecture.

Nok Conv has an article detailing Nokia Belle FP1 that we have gathered over the past couple of days from hands on videos and Nok Conv Editor comments. If you’ve been reading them these won’t be too new.

• 20 new widgets,
• Faster HTML5 browser
• Dolby Sound
• 1.3GHz update from 1GHz for Nokia 603, 700 and 701
• Better notifications Bar
• Improved multitasking interface
• Microsoft Apps

Steve Litchfield from AAS wanted to illustrate what makes the Nokia 808 PureView so special, in an attempt like Damian Dinning and a few of our own rants, to clarify the misconceptions of Nokia’s achievement merely being 41MP in a phone. I’ll save you guys again from another rant.

The diagram above shows the effective pixel sizes. You’ll note that at 38MP, the pixel sizes are the same as the iPhone 4S. But the magic of PureView is not to take huge images. Look what happens when oversampling and pixel binning tries to process these extra pixels into a ‘super pixel’. The pixel size increases massively, especially useful for low light. It’s even more helpful that the Nokia 808 has a real flash, a xenon flash, not some crud LED.

There was a Q&A with Damian Dinning yesterday and one of the questions is one we couldn’t answer. Was the material polycarbonate? Now dsmobile mentioned when it was just called the N8 successor that it was. But it wasn’t clear during launch. Some said 808 wasn’t given the same nice materials as N9/800. Well…

Damian Dinning confirms:

Q. Is the phone made out of polycarbonate?

A. Yes, but with a ceramic-like finish. Other materials used include stainless steel for the buttons and switches and camera bezel and Gorilla glass for lens protection and for the display

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/01/nokia-pureview-qa-with-damian-dinning/

Other interesting info we may already know but good to hear again from Damian.

Battery still improving:

A. We have not yet finalised battery performance measurements but our expectation that the amount of shots and video you can record in relation to battery life will be similar to the Nokia N8

Why 808 is on Symbian:

Q. Why was this introduced in a Symbian phone and not a Lumia?

A. The technology behind the 808 was a five-year development project. We wanted to bring this technology to the market as soon as we could to start delighting people with a passion for high quality pictures and videos.

Max video recording on 32MB card, highest quality. My 60D is limited to 4GB per clip. Anything beyond that apparently gets called a video camera and has different (more?) taxes that Canon wanted to avoid, so just short clips apparently at 1080p.

Q: What is the longest video clip you can record on a 32Gb memory card with the best possible picture and sound quality?

A: The maximum length single video clip you can record in 1080p @30fps is approximately 27minutes depending on the recorded content. This equates to approximately 150mb per minute of video recorded.

Thanks NeNoRmAl for the tip!