Nokia 808 PureView (with 41mp camera!)

Ay Ay Ron · Feb 27, 2012

That's right! A 41 mp camera on a phone! Also Dolby 5.1.

Spotted this was trending on Twitter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/idUS72106+27-Feb-2012+HUG20120227

Internals look pretty poor in relation to the newer smart phones (I think) - 1.3Ghz processor running 512 Ram on Symbian Belle.

Thoughts?

James28 · Feb 27, 2012

Its running symbian not Windows :S

Interesting camera though.

Blighty · Feb 27, 2012

"But what does the 41-megapixel sensor actually mean when you use it? Well you have the option of snapping at different resolutions. You can take standard 5- or 8-megapixel snaps and blow them up to a ridiculous size, if you want to frame them for your wall. The maximum resolution you can shoot at is 38 megapixels -- do so, and you can zoom in for amazing detail that you would've missed on a standard resolution shot."

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

looks pretty cool despite being symbian

Revels · Feb 28, 2012

Looks awful. Inside and out.

Be interesting to see how good the pictures actually are though.

Tom · Feb 28, 2012

It could be a billion pixels for all i care. It wont make you take pictures like a pro.

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

the camera doesnt look awful, but you would only buy it for its camera nothing else

@Spoonie · Feb 28, 2012

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

so much negativity on this forum

why dont people just say yes symbian is dead but looks interesting and look forward to seeing the actual quality of the photos.

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

Will it take photos when you press the button, or 3 minutes later?

Revels · Feb 28, 2012

I didn't realise I needed to sugar coat things as not to upset the phones feelings.

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

Revels said:
I didn't realise I needed to sugar coat things as not to upset the phones feelings.

Probably best to get one of those jelly bean factory cases for it, then it need never hear a bad word again...

..oh .....wait.

Ah yes, they dont make one that'll fit it

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

Revels said:
I didn't realise I needed to sugar coat things as not to upset the phones feelings.

LOL

richy22 · Feb 28, 2012

Hmmm.

AK · Feb 28, 2012

Saw this in the paper today.

It'll flop. Massively.

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

AK said:
Saw this in the paper today.

It'll flop. Massively.

If they slapped a partially-eaten fruit on the back of it, things would be very different.

They wouldn't need to put a charger in the box with it, or a manual, or even a battery.

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

Goodj said:
If they slapped a partially-eaten fruit on the back of it, things would be very different.

They wouldn't need to put a charger in the box with it, or a manual, or even a battery.

PMSL

Tom · Feb 28, 2012

AK said:
Saw this in the paper today.

It'll flop. Massively.

Its a headline grabber. Nokia do it all the time.

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Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

They've released some true world firsts....

All massive sales failures, except the '3' one, which was only big because it was the first handset on Three that wasn't a complete brick

richy22 · Feb 28, 2012

I had that egg one...and a 7710

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

richy22 said:
I had that egg one...and a 7710

did your parents have a Betamax player by any chance

Tom · Feb 28, 2012

Oi dont knock betamax

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

Laserdisc?

Revels · Feb 28, 2012

I think phone cameras are past the point of logic now.

I take pictures with my phone as I have done for years since I had the little camera add-on to my SE T68i

but I never do anything with that means they need to be massively high-res.

They go on facebook/twitter. Get emailed or sent via iMessage.

If I want to take 'proper' pictures for a canvas or at an event like FoS or something, then I have a proper camera.

Hixle · Feb 28, 2012

Goodj said:

I loved that phone! Was that good that I was mugged in London for it. Oh.

Remember it having a brilliant video camera.

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

It did.... for the time.

but it doesn't stack up very well against even a cheap, contemporary pre-pay.

They were also a f****** ball-ache when they played up. Nokia didn't want to know, 3 didn't really support them, so someone in the middle had to catch the grief

Tom · Feb 28, 2012

That was CPW's fault.

Goodj · Feb 28, 2012

Well, no-one else was going to touch it

ukaskew · Feb 28, 2012

Holy...

http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2012/02/41-megapixel-phone-camera/

Proper game changing technology, if those samples are genuine (I have no reason to believe they aren't). If it turns out as well as it could they could probably make more money licensing the technology to Panasonic for their Micro 4/3s cameras than they do from making phones these days.

The sad thing is this will once again mean people think more megapixels = better photos, when in fact this is an entirely different concept being shot through what appears to be one hell of a lens for a phone camera.

Andy. · Feb 28, 2012

I was ready to be dismissive because 41mp on a sensor the size of a pea should result in terrible quality, but it doesn't look that way. Odd that no camera manufacturers are using this tech TBH. I'll wait for some real world samples.

ukaskew · Feb 28, 2012

Andy. said:
Odd that no camera manufacturers are using this tech TBH. I'll wait for some real world samples.

Presumably Nokia have some fairly watertight patenting going on. Sigma have a "46mp" sensor that's actually a 15mp sensor with 3 depths to it each capturing different light (red, green and blue), which therefore doesn't need an AA filter so can capture more detail.

Andy_con · Feb 28, 2012

ukaskew said:
Holy...

http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2012/02/41-megapixel-phone-camera/

Proper game changing technology, if those samples are genuine (I have no reason to believe they aren't). If it turns out as well as it could they could probably make more money licensing the technology to Panasonic for their Micro 4/3s cameras than they do from making phones these days.

The sad thing is this will once again mean people think more megapixels = better photos, when in fact this is an entirely different concept being shot through what appears to be one hell of a lens for a phone camera.

looks mega

Scrooge · Feb 28, 2012

I had all those phones good posted, I loved my n-gage, it was f**king awesome.

Dan519 · Feb 28, 2012

for symbian, the ui doesn't look too bad. However it's nokia missing the point of what they should be doing to recapture some market share yet again

Revels · Feb 29, 2012

Depends which way you look at it.

They aren't going to win on OS. They aren't going to win on exterior styling. The high end is covered. The low end is more than covered.

They needed something different. If those pictures are real, this might just be it.

Andy_con · Mar 16, 2012

stilling looking pretty good for this camera

http://thehandheldblog.com/2012/03/01/nokia-808-pureview-camera-samples/

jonzz · Mar 20, 2012

Goodj said:

I owned all of these.

Martin_172 · Apr 4, 2012

got one on pre order should have it for the end of the month aparently. Symbian does everything i need ive been using it for the last 1.5yrs on my N8

reason its running symbian is because they have been developing the camera technology for the last 5yrs so been developed to run on Symbian, apparently the tech is coming to windows phone in the future though.

takes less than 1second from pressing the camera button to the phone being ready to take a picture.

Nokia 808 PureView (with 41mp camera!)

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