It is *very* easy to take really good photos. My N9 takes acceptable photos - so long as you don't look too closely, zoom in very much. Even simple photos of whiteboards at work are clearer and sharper and you can zoom in closely to see all you need to with the 808 (in PureView mode - I don't bother taking a 38MP photo of a whiteboard ) Low light shots are very good. Shots with the xenon flash (bright!!!) are terrific. The zoom is excellent - and lossless. Even with 8MP PureView (which is the default I've set) I get good after-shot zoom-in without messing up the image. There's a burst mode - in fact it's always on. If you hold down the camera button it takes shot after shot after shot after... The timing is about one per second - the H/W is still processing the full sensor for every shot. I've taken very little video (with any of my camera phones) so I don't have a useful opinion.