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Just when you thought the megapixel wars might finally be winding down, Nokia has announced the 808 PureView, a phone that incorporates a 41-megapixel camera (yes, you read that right!), as well as Carl Zeiss optics, and something the company calls "pixel oversampling technology."
Pixel oversampling technology is "the ability to zoom without loss of clarity and capture seven pixels of information, condensing into one pixel for the sharpest images imaginable," according to the company's release.
Nokia claims the phone can be ready to shoot in less than a second, too, so you won't miss those fleeting photo ops. The 808 PureView also has "superior low-light performance," says the company, and you can save images in low-res versions too, for sharing online. More features include HD 1080p video recording and playback and CD-quality audio recording.
Like many of the phones debuting at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, the 808 PureView has no release date or pricing information as yet, and it's still unclear whether it'll arrive in the U.S. market. One thing that might hold this phone back is that it's running on Symbian Belle, an older OS, instead of Windows Phone, the platform most of Nokia's new smart phones feature.
Nokia 808 PureView: Monster Camera, Dead Software [Information Week]
—Carol Mangis
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