When the Nokia 5800 came out, Nokia was boasting about its “nHD video” recording capability. It sounds good, but it is really only 640 x 360 pixel resolution compared to 640 x 480 resolution used by previous phones that featured “VGA video.” What’s my problem with Nokia’s implementation of nHD? The objects appear bigger.

Nokia 5800 in front of the Macbook.

Nokia N85 in front of the Macbook

I set up the Gorillapod tripod about 2 feet from my Macbook and placed both the Nokia N85 and Nokia 5800 to check the difference.

As you can see, the Nokia 5800 makes the Macbook bigger than than the Nokia N85 at the same distance. I don’t like this, because it means standing further away to fit objects in videos.

James Whatley and Ben Smith from The Really Mobile Project made an entertaining sample video to make this point. They had to sit further away from the Nokia 5800 to fit in the video and the audio suffers because of the longer distance from the microphone.

Have you noticed this on your Nokia 5800?