Nokia launches 808 PureView with 41MP camera

To people not in the know, the actual physical sensor size (in mm^2) is many many times larger than say the iPhone 4S and at least twice as large as many standalone compact cameras . The biggest sensor before this in any cameraphone has been in the N8 (to my knowledge) and this one has an even bigger sensor.<p>So its not just the megapixels, it is backed up an actually physically large sensor. Add in the great Xenon flash (which gives out much larger amount of light than say the tiny LED flash on the 4S) and you get a great cameraphone.

7728 x 5368 pixels on a 1/1.2" sensor<p><a href="http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8.." rel="nofollow">http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8...</a>.<p>I hope they will release it also with a non-dead phone OS

Three full-res (about 34MP 16:9 and 38MP 4:3) JPEG compressed sample photos: <a href="http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Archive2.zip" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-conte...</a>

Pureview whitepaper: <a href="http://press.nokia.com/wp-content/uploads/mediaplugin/doc/nokia-808-pureview-whitepaper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://press.nokia.com/wp-content/uploads/mediaplugin/doc/no...</a><p>Confirms 1/1.2'' sensor size. Approximately 2.5 times larger sensor than the one in the Nokia N8.

There are some sample images here, though sadly not at full size:<p><a href="http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-808-pureview/gallery#galleryTab=photos" rel="nofollow">http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-808-pure...</a>

Nokia should make a compact camera with this technology - with a better flash, lens and so on. It's a dying market but with this size and a DSLR-like quality - could be a huge hit anyway. And no one would complain about OS or lack of apps.

with symbian?!?!<p>With windows phone i might have been interested, but with a dead OS where I cant get my favorite apps, forget it.

Actually it allows user to take either 5MP, 8MP or 38MP images so the forcing to 5MP is only optional though gives much less noise to the image. I am hoping to see this live and play around with it!

I predict the MP race will end up the same as the GHz race, and allow people to finally understand that large a Megapixel value does not equate to better picture quality. Unless of course you're going to make a huge billboard print using an image from current gen cell phone lens.

And the stock went down 5% in the first hour in OMXH. After extraordinarily bad business decisions you need even more extraordinarily good solutions to even get even.