[Gallery] The Best Pictures We’ve Taken with a Mobile Phone (So Far)

Over the weekend, Yash went cray-cray and piled up our usual late night twitter feed with his selection of the best pictures he’s taken with a mobile phone so far. After seeing that I figured I totally needed to go back over my Flickr Archives and see what I had in comparison. One thing led to another and well, here’s the best picture’s we’ve all taken with a mobile phone (so far).

Sorted by mobile phone, Yash’s picks were:

Nokia N73:

Nokia N86:

Nokia N8:

Sony Xperia X10:

Nokia 808 PureView:

Alvin chimed in with his photos as well. His picks are:

Nokia N8:

iPhone 4:

Nokia 808 PureView:

Aatif got some very cool and insane long exposure shots with the PureView as well.

Nokia N82:

Nokia 808 PureView:

Michael’s N9 also managed to get some pretty neat shots.

And ofcourse, you cant have a gallery of pictures taken with a mobile phone without me butting in with my collection.

Nokia N95:

 

 

 

 

 

Nokia N82:

 

Nokia N86:

Nokia N97 & N97 Mini:

Nokia N900:

Nokia N8:

Apple iPhone 4S:

Sony Xperia S:

HTC One X:

Nokia 808 PureView:

Nokia Lumia 920:

So what can you take away from looking at all these images?

Well, over the years, there’s no doubt that camera tech in mobile phones have improved drastically. When Nokia announced the 41 Megapixel 808 PureView at MWC last year, I literally stood there with my jaw dropped for a couple minutes (Nokia even has a video of me being dazed and confused after the announcement haha). Over the years, we’ve also been through a lot of phones. But if anything, this post was just to make you stop for a second and realise, that the camera in your average mobile phone today, is probably not too bad at all.

Someone once told me, that the worst picture you can take, is the one you dont (I think @MsJen said that, but she put the sentence together much better).

My first smartphone was the Nokia 7650, one of the first mobile phones to have a camera. I bought it back in Kuwait before I moved to India, and I’ve taken some very precious pictures with that VGA camera, but when Nokia’s N-Gage came along I sold it because I (a) really wanted the N-Gage and (b) couldnt afford it without selling the 7650. Selling the 7650 was probably the one thing I regret in life, because honestly, the 2 years where I used the N-Gage was probably the only “undocumented” part of my life since I moved to India, and while the memories remain, I still wish I had a camera around to ‘record’ some of them. Since then I vowed to never buy a phone without a camera, and thankfully today it’s not a hard decision, heh. My next phone was the Nokia 6630 which in those days, was the first 1.3 Megapixel camera phone around. Oh the wonders that the slight increase in resolution bought along. That lasted me until I bought an N80, which had a 3 Megapixel camera, but was fixed focus. I took some okay shots with that, but made another vow to never buy a fixed focus camera again, heh.

Then I bought the Nokia N95, which made me fall back in love with mobile photography again. So much so that it made me start ZOMGitsCJ, which at the time was more of a mobile photography showcase-and-news-blog but as you probably noticed, has evolved into what you see here on UnleashThePhones. When the N82 was announced, I thought the keypad was immensely ugly, and noone would use/need a xenon flash, but then after trial-ing one for a week, I very happily proven wrong, and couldnt go back to the N95 again, heh. I was so fascinated with the Nokia N82, that I bought one and backpacked around India using it as my only phone/camera/computer/diary.

Since then I’ve had a fascination with mobile photography and how it teaches you to look at the world around you. And having a camera around is always useful incase you don’t look enough. What’s the best picture you’ve taken on a mobile phone so far?