QUOTE(teikwing @ Mar 25 2008, 03:14 PM)
K850i comes with few pieces of screen protector. there's one peice which sticks to the back of the phone. so this might be the culprit of the dark photos? it was really annoying to me too as for such high-end camera phone, where u expect it the outperform others, performs like this. dissapointing. gonna try again & update the outcome here. thanks for the help.

so when it's too bright or too dark, just play around with the exposure settings w/o using the flash?

Yeah,its usually by experience. I usually flash once to see how overexposed the flash is, then compensate by exposure settings. Macro shots usually don't need ( you wont flash anyway) the problem lies when taking pic of that very nice
leng lui with you then turns out her face is as bright as a
Good luck experimenting
QUOTE(mumeichan @ Mar 25 2008, 07:56 PM)
Updated to the latest firmware. Flash sync has improved greatly, but still not very good. Sometimes still get very dark pics, but no more pitch black pics. I think the dot beside the LED is somekind of sensor and if you are using some protection such as silicone casing, plastic casing it may affect that sensor. So I'm making a hole in my silicone case.
Beside that phone speed overall has increase greatly. Media browser speed is super fast now plus now got trasition animation when scrolling throught pics.
Camera option menu changed abit. Last time when you scroll to the multioptions tab have to select ok then only will access it. Now will automatically access it.
Overall it was worth updating.
Yes thats the light sensor I was talking about

now someone had found it. I only played around with the phone once so I cannot describe exactly where the light sensor is. Numei is right about covering the sensor, it might affect the flashing.