With a name like N9, however, it was obvious which phone we needed to compare Nokia's lone wolf MeeGo handset to, so out came our trusty N8 with its world-beating 12 megapixel sensor.

ENGADGET: Nokia N9 camera: sample images and video Hands-on

We needed a picture of the planet taken by the machine that now bears the great man's name.

BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine