Sick of settings? Let’s get on with some samples photo by the W890. Click to enlarge.
Photos are often very well saturated and colours are very much like reality, which is obviously a very good thing. However, the photos lack sharpness and details. Most of the time large amounts of details are blurred all together, i.e. if you take a picture of a grass lawn or a tree, you won’t be able to separate many leafs from great mass of blur. If you want to take photos of something without lots of small details (like a building), the camera does OK. The noise reduction in the phone performs above average and helps a bit in low light situations. W890 supports Photo Fix to fix small light and contrast issues in your photos, and it works pretty well in about 50% of the cases.
You can also record videos on the W890. Videos are encoded in MP4 format with AAC audio coding. W890 delivers up to 30 frames per second videos in QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels). The quality is generally acceptable but far from brilliant. You won’t be able to use it for much other than showing your friends on the phone or sending in an MMS message. You can download a video sample below (right click and save).
You can browse your captures easily from the camera menu by changing from camera mode to preview mode. The photo viewer is excellent and has lots of cool features such as the brilliant X-Pict Story slide show feature with different mood songs, effects and transitions. You can tag your photos and have them sorted nicely that way. Photos are also sorted by month which is actually a nice way of having the photos organized.
Music phone 3.0
The new features in Walkman 3.0 compared to earlier versions is the improved user interface and the addition of features like SensMe and the ability to sort music by genre and year. Another nice addition is the fact that audio books can now be used with the Walkman player easier and same goes for podcasts which can be handled on your computer with the bundled media software.
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