Nokia 808 Pureview has a 41-megapixel camera

 

Nokia 808 Pureview

 

Mary McDowell, the Nokia's executive vice president for mobile phones, has announced a new smartphone, the 808 PureView, which has an unprecedented 41-megapixel camera.The phone is expected to launch in Europe around May.McDowell said the firm's engineers had been working on the product for the last couple of years.McDowell said it was "natural" to assume that its technology would be used in other Nokia products in the future, although she declined to be drawn specifically on whether it was "when or if" the company would produce a Windows Phone with such imaging capabilities.The 808 uses the Symbian platform, which Chief Executive Steven Elop described as "burning" before he changed the company's strategy to use Microsoft's rival software. Symbian remains popular in developing markets of Asia,Latin America and Africa.The device is built on Nokia's existing global reputation for "excellent imaging technology".

The Nokia 808 camera showing different image

The device was larger than its rivals although it was still sized to fit in pockets, rather than replace a full-size camera.It uses a 1.3GHz processor, comes with 16GB of storage and runs a 4" screen at 360 x 640, which is below HD resolution.Nokia also announced that it was expanding its range of Windows Phone devices for Europe. At 41mp, the 808 phone is able to shoot images that Nokia claims can be printed at "poster size". Files, however, condense four or five pixels into one, and Nokia claims they are smaller than equivalent products from rivals. A Carl Zeiss lens shoots in continuous focus HD video, at 1080p.In my own opinion,I can see the market for this phone especially because the camera is extra ordinary.

 

Another image of the Nokia 808

 

I am also very much looking forward to Symbian Carla and for the Dual-Core only handsets.I think those who says Symbian is dead are joking and have no idea what is ahead by the veterans of the industry.Symbian phones are everywhere in developing countries which are doing much better than the west.I have always told my friends that it could be the reason as to why the developing countries are doing better especially with powerful humble smartphones.Nokia 808 is by far the best phone to come from the Espoo conveyor belt.

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