Nokia N82 still the best camera phone

Both of those photos were taken with my Nokia N82 phone, boasting a 5.0mp camera with Carl Zeiss lens and a xenon flash.

You may say I'm biased, but I'm still convinced that the N82 has the best camera of any mobile phone by far. For one thing, 5.0 megapixels is currently still as high as it gets on camera phones. (altho Sony and Samsung have announced 8.0mp camera phones soonish.) Secondly, it has a xenon flash! That means I can take photos in complete darkness and you wouldn't even know. Most other camera phones have an LED flash, if at all. They're not too bad, but they produce slightly unnatural looking photos and don't do well at all in the dark. Check these links out to see what I mean.

At the moment, I can count on one hand the number of mobile phones there are which have a xenon flash. The Nokia N82, Nokia 6220 classic (new) and the Samsung G800! Please correct me if I've missed out any, but I'm pretty sure that's it. The LG Viewty has a strobe flash, which still falls short. What really boggles me is why we're not seeing the xenon flash on more phones. It's obviously obviously what every camera needs! ALL of Nokia's upcoming high-end models (N96, N85 etc.) have 5.0mp cameras with LED flashes. WHY?!

Oh well, that just means my N82 gets to be reigning camera phone for longer. It's weird that this phone didn't made it big here in Australia. It's so incredibly good! Wi-fi, a-GPS, 2.4" screen, 3.5mm headphone jack, s60 OS, the N-Gage platform... sigh.

Ok I'm done.