I really want to get excited about Nokia's new phones, but why do they all have to be so darn THICK? I don't want a phone thicker than 15mm... ideally less than 12mm.
I gather it's thick due to the enhanced camera specs. Considering that they had to turn a "slider" into a "candybar" shaped device, there's less movable parts I guess.
It's that camera. Basically, a tradeoff between aperture (larger opening means more light), CCD sensor size (N82/N95 use 1/2.5", which is pretty standard for low-to-mid-range pocket cameras these days). Fortunately, they have resisted the temptation to just increase the number of megapixels since the N95, which, given the same sensor size, would actually degrade picture quality. Also, were they to add an optical zoom (like the Samsung G800), they would either need to reduce the sensor size (more noise), aperture (less light), or make the phone even thicker.
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I really want to get excited about Nokia's new phones, but why do they all have to be so darn THICK? I don't want a phone thicker than 15mm... ideally less than 12mm.
I gather it's thick due to the enhanced camera specs. Considering that they had to turn a "slider" into a "candybar" shaped device, there's less movable parts I guess.
It's that camera. Basically, a tradeoff between aperture (larger opening means more light), CCD sensor size (N82/N95 use 1/2.5", which is pretty standard for low-to-mid-range pocket cameras these days). Fortunately, they have resisted the temptation to just increase the number of megapixels since the N95, which, given the same sensor size, would actually degrade picture quality. Also, were they to add an optical zoom (like the Samsung G800), they would either need to reduce the sensor size (more noise), aperture (less light), or make the phone even thicker.