NOKIA 808 PUREVIEW WITH 41-MEGAPIXELS CAMERA…SAY WHAT?

For last few hours, we have talked about three Nokia Ashas and two Nokia Lumias which were all officially announced at the Nokia’s MWC 2012 press conference earlier today. Hence, now it is time to check out the final device that was also revealed at the event - the new Nokia 808 PureView – which somehow became the star of the show.

Now, you might be wondering how come a device that runs on Nokia Belle (formerly known as Symbian) operating system managed to capture the most attention – in our humble opinion, of course - out of all six devices that Nokia announced at its MWC press conference. The answer obviously lies on its massive 41-MEGAPIXELS camera sensor. Yes, you are reading it right – FORTY ONE MEGAPIXELS.

Together with the combination of a high performance Carl Zeiss optics, Nokia claimed that the new 808 PureView is able to help anyone capture professional looking photos in any conditions. This is done through Nokia’s new PureView Pro technology which mainly revolves around a technique called pixels oversampling that packs up to seven pixels into one single pixel. The company claims that this technique is able to eliminate noise as well as improved low light performance as compared to their previous camera phones.

In terms of video, the new Nokia 808 PureView’s huge camera sensor enables it to shoot in full HD 1080p resolution at 30fps with 4x lossless zoom capabilities. In addition to the high quality imageries in both stills and video, the device also features the new Nokia Rich Recording technology - the first such Nokia device to feature it - which allows 808 PureView to record audio with CD-like output quality.

At the same time, let’s not forget about Nokia 808 PureView’s other hardware as well. Within its shell, the device contains a single-core 1.3GHz processor with 512 of RAM and 16GB worth of internal storage as well as a 4-inch display with a maximum resolution of 360 x 640.

While the huge amount of megapixels that are contained within Nokia 808 PureView’s camera have managed to generate significant amount of buzz and arguments (especially among photography enthusiasts), we prefer that the camera’s quality to be proven in real life which means that we have to wait until the device’s release in May 2012 before we get the chance to see it with our own eyes. Nevertheless, if you are already curious on how Nokia 808 PureView’s output looks like, you can download some sample images in this 31.8MB zip file provided by Nokia.