Oops!
Nokia yesterday announced two brand new Windows phones due out later this year. The Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 are both running Windows Phone 8, the newest iteration of Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system. Though yesterday was a proud day for Nokia, it seems Nokia was also left a little bit embarrassed after it emerged that a trailer showing the Lumia 920's Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) prowess wasn't actually filmed with the Lumia 920's camera. Check it out below (hit pause at 27 seconds):
The Finnish company was caught out when the folks over at PocketNow spotted a camera crew's reflection in one of the shots. Nokia today released a statement admitting that it had used a different camera for the trailer and apologizing for not being upfront about the whole thing.
"In an effort to demonstrate the benefits of optical image stabilization (which eliminates blurry images and improves pictures shot in low light conditions), we produced a video that simulates what we will be able to deliver with OIS," said Nokia's Heidi Lemmetyinen. "Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but we should have posted a disclaimer stating this was a representation of OIS only. This was not shot with a Lumia 920. At least, not yet. We apologize for the confusion we created."
In an effort to make things right, Lemmetyinen posted the video that was shown at the press conference yesterday and shot using a Lumia 920. The video below shows a prototype Lumia 920 and what the phone's OIS can do. It also features a smartphone without OIS for comparison. It's also worth noting that Nokia has added a disclaimer to the video above noting that it wasn't filmed with a Lumia 920. This disclaimer appears in the YouTube description of the video.
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Biased journalism on Toms?
What! No, never! -_-
Who cares? Every commercial showing how a product looks or accomplishes something is only ever a dramatization to indicate functionality. It's never the actual thing doing its actual function.
Maybe, though that ATIV S from Samsung might be a solid contender as well.
there are a few phone comertials that use real phones, i know this because i trust the people who made the video to not lie.
that said, look at the "real" video... i would take the video on the left apposed to the right because its over all sharper, any of the jitteryness can be taken out in post, and if your video wanst worth going through post, you didnt film anything worthwhile.
You KNOW because you TRUST? Excuse me, but that's an antithesis. A naive one at that.
Totally, you beat me to it
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A full 24 hours later than every other tech website in the world and the first article for Motorola is:-
Motorola launch 3 brand new Droid RAZR handsets
Whereas the first article for Nokia is:-
Nokia Admits Lumia 920 Video Wasn't Shot with Actual Phone
Impartial, look it up in the dictionary Tom's, because this is either negative towards Nokia or indirectly negative towards Microsoft, you really should have just posted a story about the 2 new handsets before opening with a broadside, but thanks for trying to make our minds up for us
I just don't like metallic paints :F
Good call. I've never received a pizza from Domino's that looks anything like the commercial.
freddrew, i think it was a kung fu fight at at a beach, it wasn't to long ago.
So true, but it allways make me happy when the reality is same as commercial... But it is so rare thing to see that it belong allmost in the same category as Dodo!
That is why we needs sites and organizations that test these products! Like how many times we have seen that monitor contrast value is pure lie or when someone claims that normal autostereo can produce something like 50+50+50+50 wats of power, when the best theorethical calue is much, much smaller... *sigh* Commersial reading skill has to be subject in the primary school!