MWC 2012 – 41MP Nokia 808 PureView hands on review
Nokia 808 PureView – camera
We haven’t had a chance to examine a shot snapped by the Nokia 808 PureView in detail yet, but suffice to say they’re big. There’s an incredible level of detail when you zoom in, as you’d expect from a 41MP image. Of course, that comes at the cost of space – the image we snapped was 7MB and we’ve heard of others up to 12MB.
Sadly, we’re told there’s no way to resize in camera, so you’re forced to make a choice between shooting something for Facebook, or shooting it for print. You might even miss that double rainbow while you’re thinking about it. A neat feature lets you crop to zoom. It’s a nice touch, but with this many pixels about, you can probably just crop it later.
Despite our reservations, there’s no denying that the 808 PureView’s optics are truly mind blowing. And the €450 price tag will tempt camera geeks towards choosing this as their next phone.
Comments
Big Supes
1 year ago
Just waiting for Nokia to bring this to Windows Phone.
how1ard
51 weeks ago
You'll be waiting at least two years, Windows is so far behind in terms of processing power.
how1ard
51 weeks ago
"We’ll be back with a more considered opinion when we’ve done our full review."
No you won't you'll bang on about Symbian being dead. You're so off the mark it's untrue there is a plethora (that means a lot) of apps in the Ovi store and things like free Europe wide sat nav with traffic reports all coming as standard.
Yes it's the last Nokia phone on Symbian I get that, because MS have come on board to push there woefully underpowered OS somehow.
The fact that you can't grasp that this had to be on Symbian as the Windows OS at the present time cannot handle the processing says everything about your so called "experts".
It's a phone for adults.