Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail
PureView to a thrill
Nokia focused attention on its PureView range this morning and announced that the first of its 41Mp cameraphones will shoot onto shelves this month.
Announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 in February 2012, the Nokia 808 PureView features a large 41Mp sensor with Carl Zeiss optics and a new pixel oversampling technology.
The saucy snapper sports zoom abilities with no loss of clarity, Nokia claimed, "superior" low-light performance and 1080p video recording and playback.
As for regular blower specs, the 808 PureView packs a 4in Gorilla Glass capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 360.
The handset is powered by a 1.3GHz processor running Nokia's Symbian Belle OS, and boasts 16GB of internal storage extendable by up to 32GB with a Micro SD cards.
There's also Bluetooth 3.0, an HDMI port, DLNA and NFC support.
The Nokia 808 PureView hits select markets this month including India and Russia. No word on pricing, or an exact UK rollout yet, but we'll let you know how things develop. ®
COMMENTS
Re: FAIL
> The demand is there for Windows Phone we just need great hardware like this to go with it!!!
Which is why the Lumia 800 is doing so much better than the N9. Oh wait......
I would be standing in the Nokia shop screaming 'Shut up and take my money!' if this ran meego / harmattan.
Re: Decent OS, screen, and GPU needed first!
It's a 41 megapixel sensor, with a site-size as large as those on any competing camera (only the N8 has bigger photosites). Not all pixels are used, but 16:9 and 4:3 images are of similar resolution (everyone else just letterboxes the 16:9 image out of the 4:3 sensor)
The images are 3, 5, 10 or 39 Megapixels ( you get to choose). Oversampling occurs only on the lower resolutions.
Video is full resolution, 1080p, and the same oversampling occurs here to reduce noise and improve zoomed images and low-light shooting. Also, unlike many other devices, video is shot with the full sensor area, not just a central crop.
You are confusing "oversampling" (recording the input signal more than once per output sample, and using the extra data to improve accuracy) with "interpolation" (generating extra, synthetic, output samples from only one measurement of the input). Oversampling is a good thing.
The 808 has not one, but two GPUs, one dedicated to the camera processing (a custom part, but the performance is quoted as over a billion pixels per second throughput on video), and one to drive the display and video playback (a Broadcom 2763 with 128 Mbyte VRAM).
It would have been nice to see a 720p screen, sure, but those extra pixels exact a heavy price on your battery.
This really is a leap forwards in portable cameras, of all kinds, but that really won't matter to the people who think Instagram is photography.
Re: Decent OS, screen, and GPU needed first!
Wrong...
Its a 41mp sensor that scales images back with clever software to around 5mp. It will also shoot at 38mp if you want it to. It also has better glass than any phone before it..
In a phone yeah its maybe a bit much but whatever. They've built it, this is good tech.
Re: FAIL
You owe me a keyboard.......
Windows OS ? thats right knobble it with something even worst than Symbian. Next you'll be saying Bada would be good enougth........
And why their at it why bother at all ? just fit a phone (non smart or feature) into a normal camera and have done with it......
