Here's Kodak's new phone

[TidaLWaveZ]

Information is now available for Kodak's new smartphone, the Ektra

"Introducing a photography-first smartphone that’s about more than just megapixels. Stories are made in a moment – always be ready to create yours."

 

 

Kodak Ektra

 

-Leading Helio X-20 Decacore Processor

-3000 mAh battery

-3GB RAM

-32GB Memory, expandable with MicroSD cards

-5” Full HD display (441 ppi). (1920 x 1080 resolution)

-21MP main camera with Aperture f2.0

-Optical Image Stabilisation and Auto Focus

-13MP front-facing camera

-Phase Detection Auto Focus & HDR Imaging

-4K Video Capture

 

Introducing a photography-first smartphone that’s about more than just megapixels.

Stories are made in a moment – always be ready to create yours.

 

As anticipated by many it's a camera-centric phone with some mediocre smart phone specs.  I'm personally not interested, the camera isn't a key factor in my preference for a smartphone.  Even if it were, I don't see this phone outshining other current flagships like the Google Pixel or iPhone 7.

 

http://www.kodakphones.com/ektra/

[The Benjamins]

Specs look ok, I have not clue though how good that CPU is. Lets just hope for the best.

[TidaLWaveZ]

6 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

Specs look ok, I have not clue though how good that CPU is. Lets just hope for the best.

 

"ok" may be the perfect description, they're just ok.  This thing better have a pretty low price tag if Kodak doesn't want this thing to completely flop.

 

I've also never heard of the Helio X-20.

[Aytex]

12 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

"ok" may be the perfect description, they're just ok.  This thing better have a pretty low price tag if Kodak doesn't want this thing to completely flop.

 

I've also never heard of the Helio X-20.

 

15 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

Specs look ok, I have not clue though how good that CPU is. Lets just hope for the best.

x20 is equivalent to a Snap 620, meaning this is a low/mid end chipset, this will no where near compare to a snap 820/821

 

rip I misread the type of chipset, actually its pretty up there with the 820/and the exy 8890 lmao, i looked up the x10 by accident

[MEC-777]

Meh.

[The Benjamins]

7 minutes ago, Aytex said:

 

x20 is equivalent to a Snap 620, meaning this is a low/mid end chipset, this will no where near compare to a snap 820/821

 

rip I misread the type of chipset, actually its pretty up there with the 820/and the exy 8890 lmao, i looked up the x10 by accident

 

That's good to hear, so they have to make sure the camera is the best to make this a hit. also pricing it very competitively would help a ton.

[rattacko123]

For a camera first smartphone they should have sd card instead of micro-sd

[TetraSky]

7 hours ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Introducing a photography-first smartphone

Oh great, another one of those. 

How well did other smartphones that touted the camera as being the main selling point do before?

[Djole123]

Looks good to me, but it's not the first camera oriented smartphone. It was the Nokia 808 PureView.

[Doobeedoo]

Looks rather decent actually.

 

This reminds me of Marshall smartphone. 
Would be awesome if these two combine

[raphidy]

Are we going to have decent selfies now? I thought Kodak was a dead brand. This reminds me of the Pepsi phone, just a random phone for a limited time.

[Coaxialgamer]

7 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

Specs look ok, I have not clue though how good that CPU is. Lets just hope for the best.

its actually meh . 

 

It has dual cortex a72's @ 2.5ghz  and 8 a53's clocks from 1.5 to 2.1ghz 

 

what bugs me the most is that it is 20nm

 

[Misanthrope]

The bottom bump might feel right in the hand but definitively looks stupid: almost as if this was the digital camera that never was and you're supposed to load AA batteries in there.

[dtaflorida]

For that much camera bump it better freakin zoom.

[SansVarnic]

1 hour ago, TetraSky said:

Oh great, another one of those. 

How well did other smartphones that touted the camera as being the main selling point do before?

Lumia 1020 did pretty well. It was photo centered and was very god.

[paddy-stone]

Specs wise it's OK, I'm not a flagship hunter anyway... that's too much money to spend on a phone IMO. Anyway, main problem with this phone for me is the massive sticking out lens and lip on the bottom of the phone, I'd prefer it to be that much thicker if needs be, and then the phone back can be level. I also seriously doubt the flash is in a good position, to me it looks like it might lead to the picture getting some kind of glare from the LEDs when using the flash, but could be wrong... I'm not that into photography.

[daniielrp]

1 hour ago, SansVarnic said:

Lumia 1020 did pretty well. It was photo centered and was very god.

Nah ah. The camera was incredible, but the OS and specs let it down. It was just soooo slow by the time you'd taken a picture all the samsungs and iPhones had already taken it and shared it to social media, where quality don't matter anyway.

[SansVarnic]

23 minutes ago, daniielrp said:

Nah ah. The camera was incredible, but the OS and specs let it down. It was just soooo slow by the time you'd taken a picture all the samsungs and iPhones had already taken it and shared it to social media, where quality don't matter anyway.

I didnt own personally, I thought the os was good. I had a Lumia 925.

[TetraSky]

40 minutes ago, daniielrp said:

Nah ah. The camera was incredible, but the OS and specs let it down. It was just soooo slow by the time you'd taken a picture all the samsungs and iPhones had already taken it and shared it to social media, where quality don't matter anyway.

Windows 10 mobile OS is pretty good though. While it lacks a few apps that you can find on Android, it's certainly damn good if you don't care about those. To make up for those missing apps, there's a few apps that are very good and better than what you'd find on Android. The Map app is certainly a hell of a lot better than Google Map or Apple Map. As for the speed, I don't know about that. I can personally take a picture with my Lumia 635 at about the same speed as a friend who has a LG G3 phone.

[Magnetorheological]

Looks good, but really depends on how much they're going to charge for it.

[Energycore]

Is this a case of a piece of toast put into the toaster for a second time?

 

[daniielrp]

9 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

I didnt own personally, I thought the os was good. I had a Lumia 925.

Agree that 925 was awesome. Unfortunately with the 1020 they changed nothing except the camera. While the processing power could handle the 9MP of the 920/925, it really struggled with the jump to 41MP. 

 

8 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Windows 10 mobile OS is pretty good though. While it lacks a few apps that you can find on Android, it's certainly damn good if you don't care about those. To make up for those missing apps, there's a few apps that are very good and better than what you'd find on Android. 

The 1020 is stuck on Windows 8.1 - Microsoft blatantly lied about "every windows 8 phone can be upgraded to 10".

 

Agreed there have been some real gem apps on Windows Phone, but a handful is not enough. 

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, daniielrp said:

 

The 1020 is stuck on Windows 8.1 - Microsoft blatantly lied about "every windows 8 phone can be upgraded to 10".

 

Agreed there have been some real gem apps on Windows Phone, but a handful is not enough. 

Can't it be forcefully upgraded to Windows 10 by using the Windows Insider app found in the Store? My Lumia 635 with 512MB of RAM officially cannot be upgraded to Windows 10, but it still works perfectly well. Though I had to get rid of Windows 8.1 Cyan and get 8.1 Denim instead first which was somewhat of a pain in the butt, but relatively easy to do. Mainly had to change a registry component and the phone downloaded and installed Denim by itself, after which I got the Insider app and upgraded to Windows 10.

[Sauron]

Or, if you care about camera quality you could buy a cheaper phone and an entry level mirrorless.

[Dackzy]

mmmhh I might go for this phone if it comes to EU for a fair price.