Nokia ups camera stakes with new smartphones

according to Nokia has unveiled a range of new Android phones, raising the camera stakesby introducing a phone with five camera lenses. The brand, which is now made by Finnish firm HMD Global, is aiming the Nokia 9 PureView at photography fans. Mr Seiche said the Nokia range would serve users, particularly in emerging markets, from feature phone to mid-market devices. He said the mid-market Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 4.2 also appealed to users who wanted good value combined with the simplicity of a "pure" Android operating system, unencumbered with software installed by the device maker and with guaranteed upgrades. "The Nokia models won't contend for leadership with Apple, Huawei and Samsung - but that's not their goal," he added.

MicroSD cards: Storage on smartphones set to soar with new 1TB microSD cards

Well, technology evolved and slowly smartphone makers started offering more respectable amounts of storage yet they relied on users to buy microSD cards. The Sandisk claims to come with read speed of 160MB per second and write speed of 90MB per second. On the other hand, Micron's 1TB microSD card offers read speed of 100MB per second and write speed of 95MB per second.Micron hasn't announced the price of its 1TB microSD card. HMD Global's Nokia has unveiled as many as four new devices while LG too has launched a handful of new devices. The biggest talking point of MWC, however, has been the world's first foldable 5G phone unveiled by Huawei, called the Mate X.

The best new smartphones and gadgets from Mobile World Congress 2019

according to That's because the Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona and the manufacturers are vying for your attention. Huawei Mate X is a skinnier folding phone with a bigger screenWhile Huawei's phone folds, it's a lot different than Samsung's. Oppo is working on a smartphone camera lens with 10x optical zoom"Optical zoom" is a term that smartphone makers use rather liberally. In the camera world, it typically refers to a lens with pieces that move inside to change the field of view. A wider field of view makes a wide-angle lens, while a narrow field of view is telephoto.

Light cameras are coming to Xiaomi smartphones via new partnership

LightLight, the company with a specialty for creating multiple-lensed cameras in small form factors, just announced a new partnership with Chinese smartphone OEM Xiaomi. This means that, at some point in the future, we're likely to see a Xiaomi smartphone powered by Light technology. The most recent example of Light's camera tech is in the Nokia 9 PureView, a smartphone with a penta-lens camera on the rear (that's five lenses!). But HMD Global laughs in the face of these smartphones, as its Nokia 9 …Neither Light nor Xiaomi gave any indication of when we would see a smartphone borne from this partnership. Would you buy a Xiaomi smartphone powered by Light technology?

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