The Camera Differences on iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920

Almost at the same as previous years, most smartphone manufactures are like to announce their new product in this period, and in this year, like Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5 are just part of these new products. Nokia Lumia 920, the most expected Win 8 smartphone, iPhone 5, the most expected  smartphone, they are all have been announced in this month, and iPhone 5 has already accepted pre-ordering. And in fact, except for other factors, pureview camera technology is the top thing people have concerned on Nokia Lumia 920, and for camera on iPhone 5, Apple stated it has been improved, though its main specs  are almost as  the same as camera on iPhone 4S. But for iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920, which has better features on camera? and what's the differences on iPhone 5 camera and Nokia Lumia 920 camera? iPhone 5 camera better or Nokia Lumia 920 camera better? are just the questions people want to know.

Camera Difference On iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920

However, the most first thing we need to know is get the camera specs differences between iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920 to get the answer of which camera is better between iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920.

Camera Specs Differences on iPhone 5 and Lumia 920

For iPhone 5 camera, which almost has the same specs of iPhone 4S camera, 8MP iSight camera, f/2.4 aperture with the ability to record 1080p@30fps video, and also the features Panorama, Digital Image Stabilization. The most different from iPhone 4S is iPhone 5 camera can take still photos while recording video.

For Nokia Lumia 920 camera, which is a 8.7MP main camera, f/2.0 aperture and 26mm focal length (35mm equivalent) with the ability to record 1080p@30fps video, the great features including PureView Technology, Optical Image Stabilization and Auto and Manual White Balance.

By the way, the front camera on iPhone 5 is a 1.2MP camera with the ability to record 720p@30fps video,  and on Nokia Lumia 920 is a 1.3MP camera with the ability to record 720p@30fps video.

Which is Better, iPhone 5 Camera or Nokia Lumia 920 Camera

With the different camera specs, like camera aperture, f/2.0 is better than f/2.4, which means the f/2.0 camera can easily get more light amount, in other words , when we keep the same exposure speed, the f/2.0 camera will get more light amount, and then the photo will be more bright. On the contrary, the f/2.4 camera will be a little difficult to get more light amount.

Like camera focal length, Nokia Lumia 920 is 26mm, the value is less than 28mm, which means Nokia Lumia 920 has the wide-angle shot ability, but for iPhone 5 camera, the focal length has not been announced yet, so we are not able to get the answer which is better , iPhone 5 camera or Nokia Lumia 920, on focal length value.

We can find that the image stabilization technology on iPhone 5 is Digital Image Stabilization, and on Nokia Lumia 920 is Optical Image Stabilization, the obvious difference between Optical Image Stabilization and Digital Image Stabilization is Optical Image Stabilization is the most effective technology on image stabilization, that means Nokia Lumia 920 camera is better than iPhone 5 camera on image stabilization.

For other things like Nokia Lumia 920 camera resolution is 3264�2448 pixels, as to iPhone 5 camera, this value seems the same as camera focal length, haven't announced, but it probably be  no more than  3264�2448 pixels, and also the camera digital zoom value, we have not yet to know it on iPhone 5 camera, but on Nokia Lumia 920, the digital zoom value is 4�.

Nokia Lumia 920 low-light sample image

And Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5 are all said that they are greatly improved on their  low-light shooting performance. As we haven't got the low-light sample photos from iPhone 5, it may difficult to debate which has the better low-light performance. But according to Nokia Lumia 920's smaller aperture and Optical Image Stabilization technology, I believe, Nokia Lumia 920 has the better low-light performance than iPhone 5.

So depend on these differences between iPhone 5 camera and Nokia Lumia 920 camera, it's easy to know that the camera on Nokia Lumia 920 is better than the camera on iPhone 5.

Source:

• iPhone 5 Specs

• Nokia Lumia 920 Specs 

• Understanding Optical & Digital Image Stabilization

I am not sure the iPhone in this video is iPhone 5, but which can help you to know more about  camera on Nokia Lumia 920.

 

What's the Differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s

Several hours ago, the new generation iPhone was finally announced, in fact, that is iPhone 5, which has the features as just what the rumors said, for another word, there's no amazing things when it announced. But iPhone 5 still has much improved relatively to iPhone 4S, and that just the differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S.

 Specs of iPhone 5

As the new generation iPhone, iPhone 5 has a 4'' retina display with 1136�640 pixels resolution, and which 4.87''�2.31''�0.35''  body with 112 grams weight make it totally different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, and that make iPhone 5 is  the thinnest and lightest iPhone now. And on iPhone 5, the processor is the ARM Cortex-A15 dual core A6, Apple says which will be up to twice as fast compared with iPhone 4S's A5 chip. And the FaceTime camera on iPhone 5 is a 1.2MP with 720p HD video recording capability camera. The most important is iPhone 5 is powered by iOS 6, and the headphones for iPhone 5 is Apple EarPods , connector is Lightning (8Pin),much different from iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, iPhone 5 accept Nano SIM card but not Micro SIM card. And as what we have expected, iPhone 5 start to support 4G LTE.

Difference Between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S

 Specs of iPhone 4S

But for iPhone 4S, which has a 3.5'' retina display with 960�640 pixels resolution, and processor on iPhone 4S is an dual core ARM Cortex-A9, Apple A5 chip. Which FaceTime camera just has a VGA(640�480 piexels) video recording capability, we can call it VGA camera. And iPhone 4S is powered by iOS 5, the headphones for iPhone 4S is Apple Earphones, connector is 30 pin, LTE is not supported on iPhone 4S.

And except for these, other things on iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are almost the same. Like the iSight camera are both 8MP, f/2.4 aperture, with the ability to record full HD 1080p videos with 30fps. and the same pixel density (326ppi) on the same retina display. and also the same multimedia playback ability, for videos, iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are both support .m4v, mp4, .mov format videos, and for the H.264 codec, which can up to 1080p full HD with 30fps, for the MPG4 codec, which accept 640�480 pixels with 30fps videos, for the M-JPEG codec,  which accept 720p (1280�720 pixels) with 30fps videos.

So you may have found that the differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are mainly focus on the processor, body size, headphones, connector and the iOS, actually, it's true, there's no amazing changing on iPhone 5, but the new iOS 6 will bring you some new features on iPhone 5 that iPhone 4S can't, like passbook, Apple Map, etc..  (See more new features for iPhone 5 on Things iPhone 5 Will Do)

Lightning to 30-pin Adapter

And that are just all differences between iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S, most of you may have a little letdown on iPhone 5, but at least the enlarged screen and added LTE ability on iPhone 5 are still make you to believe iPhone is great. At last, if you want to connect your current iPhone accessories to iPhone 5, please use a Lightning to 30-pin adapter, due to the different dock on iPhone 5 and previous iDevices.

Source

•  Compare iPhones

• iPhone 5 Specs

•  iOS 6 Previews 

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How to Transfer iTunes M4V Videos to Android and Windows Phone

iTunes supports .MOV, .MP4, .M4V format videos well, and usually the .M4V movies on iTunes are DRM protected, it means we can't play them on our computer without authorizing (with iTunes account,the Apple ID for buying or renting that M4V movies or videos), and the same, we aren't able to transfer or sync that iTunes .M4V movies to our Android phones like Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X or Sony Xperia S, and Windows Phone like Nokia Lumia 710, Lumia 800, Lumia 900 or even the upcoming Lumia 820 and Lumia 920. So how to transfer iTunes M4V movies or videos to Android Phone and Windows Phone?

I think the key to make it possible to transfer iTunes M4V movies or videos to Android or Windows Phone is remove DRM from iTunes .M4V movies or videos, and then convert the iTunes M4V movies or videos to WMV or AVI for Windows phones, to MP4 with H.264 codec for Android phones. So there are some things we need to do before we can transfer or sync the iTunes DRM protected M4V movies to Samsung Galaxy S3 or Nokia Lumia 900.

And you may find there are many ways we can remove DRM from iTunes M4V movies, and then convert them to AVI, WMV or MP4 format ,then sync or transfer them to our Android or Windows devices.

But at here, the way I get is use a video converter which can remove DRM from iTunes .M4V videos and convert iTunes M4V videos to AVI, WMV or MP4 format at the same time. Actually, It is come from DRM Removal-How to Remove DRM From Protected iTunes Videos on Youtube. Now , the following are just the steps of how to transfer iTunes DRM protected .M4V videos to Android and Windows Phone.

Remove DRM from iTunes .M4V Video & Convert iTunes .M4V Video to Other Fromats(Part 1)

Step1, Load the iTunes video in the tool, you'll find the DRM protected video will be marked with a lock icon,which means we haven't authorize this iTunes .M4V video and we can't convert it before we authorize it.

Input iTunes .m4v video in

Step2, Set suitable output format for our devices, for Windows phone, we need to set the output format as AVI or WMV; for Android phone, we need to set the output format as MP4 (H.264 codec), and then to click on Start button to start to convert iTunes .M4V video, then this tool will trigger iTunes to open automatically to authorize this .M4V video with your Apple ID, then it will be able to convert the .M4V video to the format you just set.

iTunes opened automatically to authorize this .m4v video

 Transfer the Converted and DRM Removed .M4V Video to Android or Windows Phone(Part 2)

For Android phone, like Samsung Galaxy S3, we can connect it to computer, and then open the video or movie folder in it on our computer, and then we can drag and drop the converted and DRM removed iTunes .M4V video to it directly.

For Windows phone, we can connect Windows phone, like Nokia Lumia 900, to Zune, and then add the converted and DRM removed iTunes .M4V video to Zune to sync it to Nokia Lumia 900.

Zune