Review: Nokia Surge
Camera
The Surge has a 2 megapixel camera, but lacks a flash and autofocus.
The camera software itself is not changed all that much from other Nokia phones. The menus and usability factor are about the same. Pressing the dedicated camera key on the side of the phone brings the Surge's camera to life in about one second. Pressing the D-pad up or down will zoom in or out, even if you have the camera set to its highest resolution.
Pressing the D-pad to the left will bring up the dock that houses all the camera's functions. There are tons of features on the dock. You can set the resolution, scene modes, a timer, white balance and exposure. The icons for the dock have been updated a little bit compared to S60 v3.1, and the features are compressed into fewer menus, but they are all still there.
Pressing the center of the D-pad snaps pictures and saves them almost instantaneously. Once a picture is taken, you get to review it before going back to the viewfinder.
Gallery
The Surge lets you sort through a list view of your pictures with a thumbnail of each and some data floating next to it. That data tells you the file name, the file size and where it is stored. Thrilling this is not. You can scroll down through your images quickly, though, with little to no lag.
Using the left soft key, you can get at the menu system for the gallery, which lets you rename, move and sort photos at will. You can perform all the same actions with an image open, as well as easily set it to your wallpaper.
There are some decent editing tools that allow you to do things such as adjust sharpness, contract, cropping, rotation and such after you've shot the image.
The gallery feature isn't "fun", but it works.
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