https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqfEE_X5cpQ
Joining its buddy Microsoft, Nokia has decided to start attacking Apple’s products head-on with a new ad campaign for the Nokia 925 that bashes the iPhone 5’s camera.
The new ad starts by noting that more pictures are taken on the iPhone every day than on any other camera. But Nokia’s all about quality instead of quantity, goes the ad, so you should totally buy the the Nokia 925 if the only thing that matters in the world to you is your smartphone’s camera sensor.
To Nokia’s credit, their PureView cameras are pretty nice—if you don’t mind lugging around a big bulky Windows Phone that still doesn’t even have Instagram.
Thanks: Dave
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
5 responses to “Nokia Bashes The iPhone 5’s Camera In Latest Ad Campaign [Video]”
The camera on our brand new phone beats your 11 month old phone. Yeah congrats. Talk to me in a month or two.
xD compare this video with http://youtu.be/jZGzXEExZcc from Apple
Credit where credit is due, that is a nice camera. As well it should be… it’s pretty much a phone built around a camera instead of a camera squeezed into a phone.
This is the most compelling reason I’ve seen to get a windows phone yet and I hope it works out for them. I don’t see myself getting one though… just too much else about my iphone that I don’t want to give up.
Good for Nokia. Now all they have to do is get out there and sell some smartphones. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed over the years about non-professional consumers who take photos. They don’t really go nuts over the quality of their photos. All they want is some halfway decent photo and they’re pretty much satisfied. My parents used to travel all over the world taking photos and they certainly never came out as good as those picture postcards. It didn’t matter. They still were happy looking at their out-of-focus or under/over-exposed photos. It’s really all in the eyes of the beholder.
Maybe most of you are too young to remember, but people used to use cheap Kodak Instamatics and Polaroids for years and years and most of those pictures sucked compared to what the average smartphone can do. I’m speaking the truth when I say that most people where never walking around with Nikons, Leicas and Hasselblads around their necks and even if they were, unless they took some photography classes they’d still come out with crap.
Nokia, you’ve got a long, steep hill ahead of you, so don’t think a great smartphone camera is going to make you go up it any faster.
It’s a good thing Nokia is sooo hot in the smartphone and camera market. Imagine all the millions of people taking all those crappy photos with their iPhones. How could we have been so stupid to think we were getting good shots?
We certainly appreciate Nokia—the first name in phones and cameras—for clueing us in.