Video: Listen to this with your eyes closed. It’s like you’re there. – Rich Recording
Listen to this with some headphones. In ear ones preferable as they really seal off the outside sound.
It gave me the shivers as it was convincing my brain I was being soaked with water.
Close your eyes as you listen to it. It’s like you’re there in the car inside the car wash. It’s freaky.
With Rich Recording, you get that true pure sound recording. Because it’s in stereo, you can recreate the feeling of placement and location of the sounds around you.
If I ever get my hands on one of these I plan on doing more things like this. For now though there are plenty of resources already showing off exactly what the 808 can do, and more!
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I can’t believe that I sat through and watched/listened to a video of a car going through a car wash!!!!
Tried listening to some videos taken with a Galaxy S3 at download earlier, and the sound was utterly diabolical. The sound quality is an equal priority for me with the 808 …..
Nokia – just get on and release it in the UK!!!!
LOL, it makes mundane everyday things amazing. You can take one experience you take for granted and package it in 808 so that someone else can experience it as if they were there with you.
It really does make the everyday amazing …. awkward tag line for Symbian!
People have become so accepting of the lousy audio recording on all mobiles, even on DSLRs – a friend recorded a gig at weekend on his 550D, video was excellent. Sound was truly awful. And to cap it off, the weight of the DSLR made it a real chore.
The 808 would have nailed it.
It fits more here.
Amazing Everyday for Lumia made no sense – or at least it was approached in completely the wrong way, especially hen Nokia Australia tried to show off the camera but made the camera look crap by showing off out of focus videos. In a promo video of an official channel, who does that? And after being told early on, they continued to produce out of focus promos for 30 days.
Now the 808 could do with some of that 30 day something neat to watch type thing.
DSLRs and Micro 4/3 cameras are awesome for shooting video (big sensors, fast and sharp lenses) but the sound is absolutely junk. You need an offboard mic and recorder to get good sound, which makes you look like you’re shooting an indie documentary
I think the 808′s absolute killer feature is video. Pureview zooming, clean high bitrate 1080p, good stereo mics with this Rich Recording compression tech, all in a pocketable package. All the other manufacturers can do decent phone cameras but only Nokia seems to be capable of doing excellent video.
Even if you have a proper external mic, or two, and your DSLR has input for it, the audio processing algorithms/DSPs on DSLRs are quite criminal. That is even more annoying than the fact that internal mics on them are rubbish and they capture the motors when re-focusing during filming. So yes, you need an external recorder as well, which ends up with you carrying a full backpack of equipment just to be able to shoot a proper video – and even then, you have to post-process it to glue the video to the external audio which can end up desynchronized just by the mere fact that the camera dropped one frame too many and the video ended up not as real-time as one would hope. There is a reason why DSLRs are, even tho quite capable, rarely used for video recording and why there is still market for proper camcorders.
From that perspective, 808PV is almost a perfect non-professional, or even a semi-professional video recording solution, especially given its size and the price. The only real improvement to it, which I can think of, is to implement a proper stabilization algorithms – they have more than enough pixels to spare on it, and having an accelerometer onboard can help as well. So far many samples out there, taken by the 808PV w/o tripod, suffer from the `shaky hands` problem, and Nokia should, and could easily rectify it. Here’s to that improvement coming with the PR1.1.
Yes this is great and sound recording is from Nokia N9 where dolby system was used. Great idea. Piece of perfection!
N9? Where does the N9 come into this?
Probably in Google Translate
He might want to say that we saw advanced sound recording and noise cancellation first on the N9, which still is one of the best audio-recording devices out there, shame about the camera tho… Still, the 808PV is a couple of notches higher in the audio recording department as well.
Nokia N9 use DSP (digital signal processor) which allows do with sound and picture/video anything&everything processing in real time. N9 and 808 use dolby and this (together with GOOD microphones, but not a cheap shit) allows obtain such effects. 808 PureView use experiences tested and solutions tested in N9, 808 has appeared later then N9. Those are not the same constructions, but has similar origin. 41Mpx camera senor was to big and for this reason could not be installed in N9 body. Sound chips and mics are smaller. N9 can’t make such photos, but make recordings of the same quality.
This is super freaky Jay! While watching I remember the scene on the Final Destination 4!
Can’t believe i watched all of this either haha
I wonder how big this file is? That will be the only downside to me having this phone (Similar to my N8) I can’t share any of my videos because it takes a month of Sunday to upload one. I’ve got some great firework videos from last year on my N8, but my upload speed is so appalling, it takes an hour to upload 50MB, so i cannot share them
I can’t get faster speeds here either, such a shame.
car wash eargasm :p
omg the sound of the brushes. yes, ohhh yes
I really wanted to take one to EDC in Vegas.. that would have been a real test
Share your videos on Vimeo. It’s really worth it. They don’t rob the quality like youtube.
Nokia is pretty damn good about compassion too so the files shouldn’t be too monstrous.
It’probably why the Vimeo app landed just in time for the 808
If Nokia was serious about selling the 808 pureview, they’d have tied up with Instagram and developed an app for launch.
Or include some effects in the camera ui itself just like the one in htc
Or just leave it as is, and have the photo editor option just in case you do want to ruin a picture.
Instagram is to photography as Simon Cowell is to music.
A photo sharing sight that you can apply filters with? That would be the killer app for you? Pfft…whatever. There are more than enough quality apps on Nokia Store that will allow you to hide you bad photo techniques or ruin perfectly good shots. Then you can upload to facebook, twitter, flikr or photobucket. Or ever upload on Nokia Pulse. I’m talking about sharing video with as little loss to quality as possible. No gimmicks.
Nokia isn’t trying to move volume on the 808. It’s a niché device for cameraphone lovers and audiophiles.
Hipster assholes shooting shit photos of their fixie riding, IPA drinking, sister’s pants wearing butt fuck buddies for the sole purpose of layering umpteen filters over it and calling themselves artists need not apply.
Bu the 808 will let you do it. Well.
Really? You want to downgrade the beautiful shots this baby can take, pass them through some half-assed filters and post them for your circle of voyeur friends to see? Why would you buy an 808PV then, you can ruin photos just fine on much cheaper devices – on some, those filters can even be an improvement… I don’t think that hipsters would be interested in the 808PV anyway, it ain’t got the GeeBees and WeeFees…
I can’t understand for the love of your favorite imaginary deity by which mechanism Instagram became so popular – there were and still are thousands on apps on a plethora of platforms allowing you to apply filters and share images if that’s your thing, what makes Instagram so special? Oh well, I guess I’m getting old…
Instagram’s not about the shitty filters, it’s all about the sharing
So other people can instantly see the over-processed, vignetted, expired-Polaroid picture of your cat… just like a billion other similar pictures.
I still cannot believe Facebook paid a billion dollars for that junk. At least Navteq, the big hole in Nokia’s pocket that it is, has excellent global mapping.
So what has changed so dramatically that made it a succes? I could share and have other people instantly see captured images cca. 2006, I was just never particularly interested in social networking to actually use it. Exhibitionism nor voyeurism ain’t my things still…
I’d really like to hear from an Instagram user what is so great about it?
The end bit with the dryers was really creepy, straight out of The X Files. LOL
Is it as good recording as these mini digital recorders like Zoom? Strip out the phone circuit but keep WiFi and Bluetooth and you have a Nokia Touch product. Choice of sizes like 5 inch…..
Instantly reminded me of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbHk2Au73V4
(sadly no better quality available on the interwebs)
I didn’t hear anything special, is it me or my cheap headphones?
side by side comparison would’ve been nice (although I’ve seen one before)
Well, do you headphones function between 20Hz-20MHz? If they don’t, than ya, your cans/buds suck. If they aren’t at least the quality of the ones that came with the N8, GET THEM AWAY FROM YOUR HEAD!!!!
they came with nokia 1616
808 PV now available in the Philippines. PhP 24,900.00. (around 580 US Dollars).
http://www.cmkcellphones.com/nokialink.html
Thats a very competitive price… Good Job… Get one fast
thats a very good price reminds me of their price for the n9
Haha… Nauna k plang mag tip…
Stereo is a plus but i didn’t feel like i was sitting there etc.. and i was listening through headphones
Max, I am not sure you know what you are talking about. I do audience recordings with Tascam portable recorders and some binaural mics [here is my blog http://turnitupto10.blogspot.com.au ] Some times I do video with my N8. Here is my best recent video of a Future of The Left song http://youtu.be/ekwtSRVSUFg where the sound was good and here http://youtu.be/LWZVASkOUyE is a punk song by Fucked Up I did video with the N8 but had to sync the audio from my Tascam recording because there was serious distortion on the N8 sound track.
Listen with headphones.
Do you know how much I would pay for a machine that recorded the Fucked Up song clean.
If the N9 is of any comparison, and so far 808PV seems to outperform it fair and square, it won’t have any problem with high-bass and high-pitch sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATHdeq2sG0
By comparison, the same event taken by an iPhone 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSRdn–FPE
Sure, video on the N9 is crap, but 808PV solves that problem as well. Now we need some to take one of those 808PV to a proper concert and see how well it does. I have no doubts it would put to shame many dedicated camcorders.
Considering this is a phone and not a proper field recordist’s setup, I’m quite impressed. Far more low end than I ever would have expected from a phone.
One crazy-ass idea – can the 808 use external mics via USB OTG and have it sync with the video? I thought the N95 could do it via the headphone jack/composite video jack, and the N8 can use some USB mics too.
You could then use your own mic setup (binaural or whatever) in case the built-in mics can’t handle the dynamic range or aren’t directional enough.