Samsung sure has made some high claims about its
OmniaHD supermegaphone, and now we've got some HD footage and stills to put those claims to the test. The camera does seem pretty stellar for a phone, and the video is undoubtedly HD, but we saw pretty sluggish performance in the HD recording mode, both in the on-screen preview and in the finished product. We'll chalk that up to the super-early build of the device software, but hopefully this will be resolved before the phone ships. The phone also does ultra-slowmotion video, which is awesome, but seems similarly inconsistent and stuttery in frame rate. We'll shut up and let you see it all for yourself, both in the gallery below and the videos after the break. Again, this is all from a pre-production phone, and we're really expecting (or at least hoping for) the frame rate to smooth out by launch. The video was shot in 720p, but it was downsampled for web playback -- it looks pretty sharp in native form, and the first image in the gallery is a screencap from the video in full resolution for your perusal.
posted Feb 17th 2009 7:45PM
Sweet :-)
Lots of it :)
Video recording isn't sluggish - its 24 fps, so its normal. For Samsung that is.
Pictures of cupcakes? Really?
Didn't anyone think that through?
mmmmmmmmm.... food!
Yea i want some of that food!!!
Thats wat she said
Anyone who mentions a certain fruit company below me is a knob
Orange! (Don't Strike Me!!)
but seriously, thats a nice image, does it better than the toshiba camelio POS i got a while back..
Dole
Delmonte?
Blackberry?
Banana Republic?
Chiquita Banana
The pictures don't look any better than the ones from my N95...
That's because the firmware is so early. Go look at pictures from the i8510 INNOV8 and you'll see just how poor your N95's camera is in comparison to Samsung's devices.
nah, N95 camera is better, don't be fooled, by the higher Mpx count, besides, these pics as is aren't even 3 Megapixels
Both the still photos and videos from the N95 are poor. The LG Viewty, for example, produces much higher quality. I've owned both and have compared them.
For me, the interesting questions about the OmniaHDs video are:
- what is the bit-rate of the 720p mode?
- what is the resolution and frame-rate of the slow-motion mode?
Oh yeah? Well my Treo 700W takes better pictures than this!!
/envious
in my experience, the best cameras are on the Sony Ericsson Cybershot series
even the first gen, 3.2Mpx phones took better quality shots than this
video quality was horrid though, don't know of they've improved video recording on the new gens, but maybe they'll make a Sony Ericsson Handycam series for that
I agree with John, the SE ones are way better than the ones here or from my N95. Why everyone can't use good optics I don't know.
Actually the ones from my N95 look better.
The colors are washed out the focus is not good at all and the entire image quality reminds me something between 2 and 3 Megapixel upscaled with software or something .
The N95 shoots 640x480@30fps with no blurriness and that's because it has a specialized hardware video encoder/decoder.
Nice and sharp!
The colours look off....too washed up.
so is samsung trying to bribe the press to look at their phones only by providing delicious little snacks?
i hate to be a killjoy, but what's the point of posting this if we can't actually see the hd video?
Exactly.
Why didnt they post it to Youtube in HD?
That is bad quality. I'm not saying that they're good, but I just prefer iPhone's camera quality.
I'm about to die of laughter.
Even though it beats it in every single way with Pre-beta OS
According to TRLK you sir, are a knob.
The iphone's pictures look better than still frames from omnia's hd videos? Let's see some stills from iphone's videos ;)
Go suck Jobs apples.
WTF is going on with all the i people having no commonsense?
i prefix of name == fanboy
fanboy == brainless
Maybe he really just prefers lower quality images.
Can't wait to see the finished product. It is jerky video but I kind of expected it seeing as the software is Pre-beta.
Although i much love the effect which sand in my eyes gives me, i think i would reccomend having clear eyes before making a comparison :p
opps, intended for i kurt mark
I hope the stills get better because it looks like crap.
@ iKurt Mark III
mate you really need your eyes testing, seriously comparing this to the iphone camera? as "a ham sandwich" said we need to see the video and images in their original forms, compressed versions are pointless for looking at the actual quality
Hopefully they improve the audio quality...alot.
It would be great when everyone has this quality of a camera/video phone so I don't have to go blind watching CNN iReports that get televised onto CNNHD.
that sounds good now, but it wont be when everyone does.
so just imagine everybody's got a phone that can shoot high resolution video. great, right? wrong. think imax rollercoaster. with the average person's shaky hand it'll be mr. blurrycam on steroids and you'll get nauseous instead of going blind.
Did the audio actually sound that bad? Or is that just from encoding it for web playback?
Wow, that slow mo is freaking awesome. The video looks pretty sharp, too.
Is the first vid's audio kinda funky for anyone? For me it sounds like alien babble, like the audio's all scrunched up somehow (hope it's just not a language I don't recognize... not trying to be rude), and it cuts out about 46 seconds in.
I've got the Samsung Omnia i910 and I love how clear the still photos are. Outside some tweaks I did to make myself happy, its been a great phone so far.
Videowise, it does like bright light, but close up the freaking bright flash helps.
More like "Put to the taste" Man am I hungry now.
Hmm.. is that ghosting I see in the "HD" video? Anyhow Viddler site doesn't seem to provide HD playback, that could also be a reason why we are seeing this. However the poor slo-mo performance is strange, considering how well it work before.
Conclusion is, this is probably the early demo phone, so nothing is up to par yet.
Bringing the quality down defeats the purpose of the video.