In the next few years point-and-shoot handheld cameras will soon take on existing smart phone cameras which has been prevailing among us for such a long time. Nokia has been recently awarded as a patent for modification of smart phone camera in the aperture portion by making it adjustable.

This new modification has been implemented in handsets like Nokia Lumia 920 possess a large aperture size of f/2.0 & also consists of best low light shooters while another handset named as Nokia 808 Pureview possess f/2.4 aperture & can capture great quality pictures in poor conditions.

The technology is quite simple by using electrical circuit a voltage will be applied to electrodes. As a result of the ongoing current, electro-active centre unit squeezes & which in turn adjusts the aperture.

“Small aperture with high f- number increases the sharpness of distant objects, or in other words increases depth-of-field, which means more elements of a picture, from foreground to background, become sharply focused. This can create a distinct sense of depth to a photograph, drawing the viewer into the picture. It is well-known that small apertures are used especially for most landscape photographs,” as mentioned in the Nokia’s patent application.

The Nokia Browser 2.0 revise has been rolled out to Series 40 gadgets.

The newest update supports Series 40 Touch, QWERTY and Non-Touch gadgets counting the Nokia Asha range, Nokia C3-00, Nokia C2-03 and Nokia X3-02.

The update will also come pre-loaded on all upcoming Nokia Series 40 gadgets, while for the offered customers the update will appear as a free, over-the-air download.

The new users can download the updated browser from the Nokia Store at: http://store.nokia.com/content/51924

Launched in mid-2011, the Nokia Browser is the initial browser of its variety to sustain web apps. Nokia has also optimized the browser to facilitate customers to reside allied with friends and family at the touch of a button. Sharing files as well as involving diagonally social networks is also a breeze.

Bringing sooner and improved user experience to the mobile customers, the new Nokia browser description compresses data by up to 90 percent. This compression technology delivers accelerated browsing to consumers at lowest rates.

According to Dieter May, senior vice president of mobile phones services, Nokia: ‘With our latest version, we’ve formed a newer, quicker, enhanced browsing experience. As many customers about the world will experience the internet for the foremost time through a mobile phone, this is a immense step towards our goal to attach the ‘Next Billion’.’

A good reports for Symbian smartphone consumer as there could be a possibility that a new Feature Pack 2 update is in the pipeline for the newer models. The Nokia PureView will be part of the update, and that will be approaching to the 603, 700 and 701 as well, together with a CPU speed boost.

Belle Feature Pack 2 might be coming soon

As reported by GSM Arena, the Belle Feature Pack 1 update in itself ups the performance of the browser as well. It goes from 157 points to 212 points. With Feature Pack 2, there’s a further boost in the speed with the points tally increasing to 242. Comparable to that, Android 2.3 dig up 181, Android 4.0 catch 256 and Safari gets a 305. Obviously iOS wins, however Belle isn’t that far away, which is extremely good reports. Mango attains a lowly 141 points, as compared to the competition.

This was part of the HTML5 test’s browser comparison tests. Also, Nokia Beta Labs is ending the Universal search that at present stays alive on their handset. This might indicate that the feature possibly a part of FP2 also.

Symbian solitary was certainly a powerful platform. With the arrival of the other operating systems, it did drop a lot of popularity, but it’s still swallowing on with these updates. One of the major problems was the limited app store, but apart from that, the interface, the media and the whole thing else was as good as others.

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