Nokia 808 PureView – revolutionary camera technology; great smartphone

The next evidence, the crappy Windows Phones are unable to support new Hardware. WELL DONE, SYMBIAN TEAM!

The next evidence, the crappy Windows Phones are unable to support new Hardware. WELL DONE, SYMBIAN TEAM!

The next evidence, the crappy Windows Phones are unable to support new Hardware. WELL DONE, SYMBIAN TEAM!

thank you Nokia and Damian dinning & co.

thank you Nokia and Damian dinning & co.

thank you Nokia and Damian dinning & co.

Oh my…. It set a new level!!! How will do the concurrent to go over this? They will eat their hands to improve and overcome this device.

 And some Trojans call it the “Burning Platform”… Windows phone isnt even ready to take up such challenges….

so u managed to build an extremly ugly phone. look at the back, its protruding unnaturally 

WHY SYMBIAN XD

WHY SYMBIAN XD

WHY SYMBIAN XD

WHY SYMBIAN XD

which operating system is used? Windows 8 or Android.

which operating system is used? Windows 8 or Android.

I’m in love! Spread the word ppl Nokie 808

I’m in love! Spread the word ppl Nokie 808

I’m in love! Spread the word ppl Nokie 808

Awesome phone….but what about the price

Awesome phone….but what about the price

Awesome phone….but what about the price

 Symbian Belle

41 megapixel sensor?! With oversampling? Why not 207090 megapixels then? Better tell me pixel density vs matrix size, and I will tell what kind of cr@p it is….

41 megapixel sensor?! With oversampling? Why not 207090 megapixels then? Better tell me pixel density vs matrix size, and I will tell what kind of cr@p it is….

Hi Makers of Nokia 808, Just want to ask if the camera will support RAW output?

We’ve added some unretouched Nokia 808 PureView photos for you to download. Check them out by clicking the update  #2 at the end of this story.

We’ve added some unretouched Nokia 808 PureView photos for you to download. Check them out by clicking the update  #2 at the end of this story.

Nokia is the KING. Can any phone beat the quality of the Nokia 808 PureView. I just love the PUREVIEW!!!!

Best thing about the PureView apart from it’s 41MP sensor is that it has Nokia Belle (Symbian) and not Windows Phone 7.5.

so you take 38 megapixel photos and show them on a 4 inches 360×640 pixels screen, WOW, thats nice -_-

This on a Lumia phone.  Legen…wait for it…dary!

This on a Lumia phone.  Legen…wait for it…dary!

I sure hope the camera UI has improved. Still not saving settings when the camera app is closed? Still four taps to change sharpness? These are two of my frustrations with the N8. If I see something I want to shoot quickly, it takes 10-20 seconds to get all settings ready and often the moment is gone by the time I’m done getting ISO, sharpness, etc ready. Why not have the camera remember last used settings and make it easier to navigate options?

Shame that it doesn’t have an active camera lens cover, like on their classic models N95 and N82. But still an improvement compared to the N8 that the unprotected lens cover can be cleaned easier. On the N8 you need cotton buds or similar to clean properly as the lens cover is regressed but still easy enough to reach with oily fingertips.

I sure hope the camera UI has improved. Still not saving settings when the camera app is closed? Still four taps to change sharpness? These are two of my frustrations with the N8. If I see something I want to shoot quickly, it takes 10-20 seconds to get all settings ready and often the moment is gone by the time I’m done getting ISO, sharpness, etc ready. Why not have the camera remember last used settings and make it easier to navigate options?

Shame that it doesn’t have an active camera lens cover, like on their classic models N95 and N82. But still an improvement compared to the N8 that the unprotected lens cover can be cleaned easier. On the N8 you need cotton buds or similar to clean properly as the lens cover is regressed but still easy enough to reach with oily fingertips.

Will it come with the HDMI port? or the USB on the go?

Will it come with the HDMI port? or the USB on the go?

I was positively supprised when I got Nokia E7 with Belle. UI is no more stubling block for a Symbian device. If Symbian would only get faster and more precisely working web browser 808 Belle camera phone might be my following phone…

Belle OS is great. 20.000 views just in one day!. You are moving in the right direction, Nokia.

Belle OS is great. 20.000 views just in one day!. You are moving in the right direction, Nokia.

Instead of having a flagship Windows Phone with the Lumia 900, Nokia could have had a flagship phone overall by sticking this camera tech onto a Windows Phone device rather than what is likely to be the last ever Symbian smartphone. A missed opportunity… again.

Oh buzz off with trolling…

Oh buzz off with trolling…

Well played Nokia. I don’t think anyone expected something this big. Do go on and put this beast of a sensor into your upcoming products, can’t wait for first Apollo devices and what you might come up with. :)

Well played Nokia. I don’t think anyone expected something this big. Do go on and put this beast of a sensor into your upcoming products, can’t wait for first Apollo devices and what you might come up with. :)

this mobile is just awesome undeliverable and lot more this mobile surely deserve guiness record 

Impossibru!

Very impressive. Now add it to Windows Phone devices and license the tech out to HTC, Samsung and so on for a pretty penny!

Very impressive. Now add it to Windows Phone devices and license the tech out to HTC, Samsung and so on for a pretty penny!

Nokia, I’m all for the mother of god in cameras on phones, but why no wp7?

640 x 360 – display..???????? No improvement..,or…No technology…..?
other phones use..1280 x 720 pix now….and…..out of date design.I’m really disappointed.Nokia is far behind from….Apple , Samsung , Htc , LG…and  Motorola. And…single core……………even Huawei will release… quad core soon.I have N 8….but…I won’t buy……808.No technology………No success….

Just One Question. When Can I Have One?

No technology?
 
With this phone Nokia has made a gigant leap in phone camera technology, and the image quality exceeds other phones by a lot, nothing comes close.

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Microsoft don’t like this article. ;-)

Oh yeah, now you have only to release the same with a hi-resolution Display, a dualcore system, 1GB Ram, the same OS like the Nokia N9 and a lense cover to protect my new baby.

The only thing you would need is to put a price label on it. For 1000€ I would buy it without thinking a second about it. 1500€ and I would have to think a little bit about it.

And Nokia, if you ever consider to put the same camera module in a Lumia device with Windows Phone ensure to put something below 50€ on the price tag. I will never again spent more than 50€ for a useless toy!

Impressive! Thank you.

dayuuuummnn nokia! 

Nice phone, love it.

Nice phone, love it.

Android is missing!

Incredible technical achievement by Nokia here. Well done guys. Looking forward to getting my hands on one.

Amazing, I am still impressed by the performance of my N8. So if this one will be even better, especially in low light conditions – why having a “proper camera” anymore?

By the way: from my Experience Nokia Belle is not worse then the Android on my Galaxy Tab!

Can any official answer this: When is the 808 due to launch in Norway? :) I’m so looking forward to this phone!

I appluad Nokia for having the foresight and courage to truly design something revolutionary – a camera in a cell phone with a big sensor (1/1.2″). 

There is nothing on the market that can even compare.Finally a cell phone
that is worth carrying for its camera feature.I have a micro four-third
sensor-based Panasonic GF-1 since 2009and the photographic quality is
superb. That’s one reason I nevercared for any cell phone camera – they are
just bad. Though some times I wish for a cell phone that has a decent camera with a big sensor and quality lens.In general, the megapixel war is nothing but a marketing gimmick. (5~8MP is
all any point and shoot camera really need, most camera phones really only need 3MP because they cramp too many tiny photosites into a tiny sensor and result in bad photos). The
mostimportant elements are the sensor size and lens optical  characteristics. I was concerned reading about 41MP from this phone, but upon further reading I understood that Nokia does not actually make this phone output an absurdly noisy 41MP picture. It just captures a lot more pixels for substitute of optical zoom (which is very difficult to do on a cell phone without increasing its thickness). In this aspect, by keeping the image to 3 to 8MP, it achieved the equivalent of optical zoom without sacrificing quality like digital zoom usually does.

Nokia made something revolutionary by putting such a large
camera sensor into a cell phone (relatively speaking) and that will redefine
the camera phone design.

808 PureView is game changing technology, again Nokia deliver with what looks to be a superb camera. Very cleaver use of high megapixels to manage zoom features. Just Brilliant Nokia.

Now lets hope that this gets released world wide! Well at least in the UK :-)

What I’d like to know is does the camera interface remember your settings from one use to the next? It doesn’t on the N8 remember my flash settings, which is annoying as I grab the N8 to take a few quick snap shots indoors and need red-eye reduction on. Sometimes missing the moment.

808 PureView is game changing technology, again Nokia deliver with what looks to be a superb camera. Very cleaver use of high megapixels to manage zoom features. Just Brilliant Nokia.

Now lets hope that this gets released world wide! Well at least in the UK :-)

What I’d like to know is does the camera interface remember your settings from one use to the next? It doesn’t on the N8 remember my flash settings, which is annoying as I grab the N8 to take a few quick snap shots indoors and need red-eye reduction on. Sometimes missing the moment.

808 PureView is game changing technology, again Nokia deliver with what looks to be a superb camera. Very cleaver use of high megapixels to manage zoom features. Just Brilliant Nokia.

Now lets hope that this gets released world wide! Well at least in the UK :-)

What I’d like to know is does the camera interface remember your settings from one use to the next? It doesn’t on the N8 remember my flash settings, which is annoying as I grab the N8 to take a few quick snap shots indoors and need red-eye reduction on. Sometimes missing the moment.

Fair enough nokia. You have realised that you can’t go down the same smartphone route that has been dominated by iphone, and you have realised that you can make up for the iphones weak camera with a promosing product. Good luck.

Great article, thanks for sharing!!

How much and where can i buy?

Go Symbian, Go!!

808 pureview’s price is a bit hefty, i am afraid n9 16G cyan/magenta will be my next phone, australian dollar 389 for n9 16

Also, will it really inflate costs to include a capacitive touch display for ALL Asha phones? It about time to red rid of resistive touch displays, even for touch-and-type feature phones. 

I love what you’re doing with the S40 platform, but I’m not pleased to see resistive touch display still around.

mijn volgende telefoon wordt een Nokia 808

Belle feature pack 1 for sets you like n8, e7, … It comes as an update? I am from Iran and in Iran we do not respond to questions. I think you answered my question. Thanks to the Nokia team in Europe and America.

the best words to describe this pureview 808 is

“a slap on the Symbian haters’s faces “

the best words to describe this pureview 808 is

“a slap on the Symbian haters’s faces “

n9 magenta or 808 pureview red?

they are just great!!!

Nokia 808 pureview 41 megapixal camera Phone is awesome to have such phone

Nokia 808 pureview 41 megapixal camera Phone is awesome to have such phone

Nokia 808 pureview 41 megapixal camera Phone is awesome to have such phone

what is the price????????????

Hello,

what does “recording without distortion at audio levels beyond the capability of human hearing” refer to? “Level” typically refers to amplitude, and “capability of human hearing” measures between around 20 and 20 KHZ in terms of frequency, both of which have nothing to do with (digital or analogue) distortion.

Hello,

what does “recording without distortion at audio levels beyond the capability of human hearing” refer to? “Level” typically refers to amplitude, and “capability of human hearing” measures between around 20 and 20 KHZ in terms of frequency, both of which have nothing to do with (digital or analogue) distortion.

awesome nokia rock… 41 mp… wow

Guys when is Pureview technology going to come into a Lumia handset…!! 

I think Nokia should give this camera king a bomb to public. Preferably to have at least a dual-core 1Ghz to 1.5Ghz (to follow the trend), and use 768MB – 1GB Ram and a higher screen resolution. May be this will be the last Symbian phone :p

Can someone from Nokia confirm that this will be launched throughout Europe (including UK), not just in selected markets like the N9? 

when it is going to be launched in INDIA and what is the MRP in indian market

Ok, now how about a version with a proper smartphone OS? Meego or better yet WP7? Belle may be good now, but just being good isn’t enough anymore. WebOS was good. Meego was good. Bada was… ok, I won’t go that far. What people want nowadays is an ecosystem, and WP7 really is on the bottom end of what is acceptable, only the great UI makes it bearable.

Please, WP7, higher resolution screen and perhaps a faster CPU and this may very well be my next phone (currently using an old Android and a not working LG Optimus 7 (memory problems…), loved the Optimus 7, the Android not so much because it never works properly). So far it is either one of the many WP7 phones (the Lumia 800 is nice, but doesn’t really stand out from the crowd) or one of the 2 Chinese high end Android phones, Meizu MX or Xiaomi M1. But the 808 as a WP7 phone at a reasonable price…

I think this is a great offering and am really disappointed in all of the negative comments here.  Symbian is a great smartphone OS with enough processor speed.  Now we’re at a point where it can truly shine, and with the right hardware – which the clearview has (and could be slightly better, looking forward, say with a product life of 5-7 years), we have a GREAT device.  Ergonomics are of the utmost importance with devices.  Cables should not get in the way of holding the device comfortably in landscape mode but should also be  good in portrait – a problem with my N8 – but seemingly solved with the 808 (headphone jack was moved from left to right)

In an ideal world, there would be a second SD slot and microsoft’s ReadyBoost technology for flash memory could bump up the phone’s RAM for video/audio/photo editing and capture – and the USB port would be a 3.0.  If the HDMI out can send a video and audio feed real time, this product would make a great webcam, and of course…

If Nokia has been able to tweak its FM transmitter to improve audio fidelity and battery life and is working on developing new battery technology in general, then I would certainly side with Symbian in any smartphone battle royale.  The hardware is the weak point with most products and until recently, Nokia’s weak link was an OS that lagged with slow hardware.

Aside from these concerns, the 808 ClearView looks like a fantastic product.  Any OS glitches should be dealt with by now from a software AND hardware standpoint. 
the 808 ClearView needs to have RAW image output if Nokia expects to have its product used by professionals and enthusiasts in the most exciting new ways.  37MP HDR imaging?  Come on, Nokia.  Spend a few more months on this product before you release it.  Improve battery life, work on integrating your other services with push functionality via web (maps/drive/transport, list widgets, calendar service compatible with office/google), and build wifi hotspot functionality into the device without needing to buy a 3rd party app and you’ll have a product far better than anything else on the market. People say they want android/windowsphone with this product, but if I wanted a tablet I’d use a tablet.  Interface this product with Windows 8, OSX, Ubuntu, Android, and Chromebook, and you’ll have a product that will be able to work for everyone.  

That’s really the lynchpin with great products – they don’t always work for everyone.  Change the game with this one, folks – I emplor you.

I think this is a great offering and am really disappointed in all of the negative comments here.  Symbian is a great smartphone OS with enough processor speed.  Now we’re at a point where it can truly shine, and with the right hardware – which the clearview has (and could be slightly better, looking forward, say with a product life of 5-7 years), we have a GREAT device.  Ergonomics are of the utmost importance with devices.  Cables should not get in the way of holding the device comfortably in landscape mode but should also be  good in portrait – a problem with my N8 – but seemingly solved with the 808 (headphone jack was moved from left to right)

In an ideal world, there would be a second SD slot and microsoft’s ReadyBoost technology for flash memory could bump up the phone’s RAM for video/audio/photo editing and capture – and the USB port would be a 3.0.  If the HDMI out can send a video and audio feed real time, this product would make a great webcam, and of course…

If Nokia has been able to tweak its FM transmitter to improve audio fidelity and battery life and is working on developing new battery technology in general, then I would certainly side with Symbian in any smartphone battle royale.  The hardware is the weak point with most products and until recently, Nokia’s weak link was an OS that lagged with slow hardware.

Aside from these concerns, the 808 ClearView looks like a fantastic product.  Any OS glitches should be dealt with by now from a software AND hardware standpoint. 
the 808 ClearView needs to have RAW image output if Nokia expects to have its product used by professionals and enthusiasts in the most exciting new ways.  37MP HDR imaging?  Come on, Nokia.  Spend a few more months on this product before you release it.  Improve battery life, work on integrating your other services with push functionality via web (maps/drive/transport, list widgets, calendar service compatible with office/google), and build wifi hotspot functionality into the device without needing to buy a 3rd party app and you’ll have a product far better than anything else on the market. People say they want android/windowsphone with this product, but if I wanted a tablet I’d use a tablet.  Interface this product with Windows 8, OSX, Ubuntu, Android, and Chromebook, and you’ll have a product that will be able to work for everyone.  

That’s really the lynchpin with great products – they don’t always work for everyone.  Change the game with this one, folks – I emplor you.

Hi! I was wondering what is the maximum file size when recording videos with this device?  If it can record 25Mbps and the maximum filesize is fat32′s ~4,2GB, then it could record 168 seconds , less than 3 minutes that kind of video quality.  So It has 16GB internal memory + 32GB extension, right?

I think the processor might be lacking the way it does with Nokia N8, I would like to see a better processor with the specs and also more base memory. 

reply to Nobunaga Remnant..why not move to the mountain…if the latter can’t move…nokia in danger lol…i think the contrary…time is with nokia now..i just hope that nokia will be able to supply the demand pointing for pureview…clap again to nokia

As an amateur photographer, this is incredibly interesting for me, perhaps as a sidekick for an APS-c cam or my SLR.  It’s a fascinating concept and I’d love to see if it could be a viable sidekick. or even primary, for low-light concert shooting.

I’m also glad that Nokia has put an end to the megapixel wars and started educating people on how more MP isn’t always better, but higher quality ones and pixel density is the most important thing.  I wish they could push this point further and make it a focal point because then it will drive the point how that Nokia is currently more advanced than most of the photo industry that is still chasing increasing megapixels of low-quality on ever-shrinking sensors and slower lenses.  Nokia essentially did the exact opposite of the industry trend, reducing MP (via downscaling) to a reasonable size, faster lenses, and larger sensors.

I’m curious about these supposedly unretouched photographs linked in “Update 2″… The EXIF data in the third picture, the one with the carabiner, shows it was created, generated and digitized at 3:04 AM, yet it’s clearly daylight.  And no, it wouldn’t be 3PM, aka 1500. Even at the poles, it’s much darker at 0300.  Unless these were taken close to the center of the south pole???  Then, I could see why it’s daylight at 0300.  

Makes me wonder just how “unretouched” these pictures really are. 

The nokia 808 PureView is made of 
 polycarbonate or is paited? 

Amazing nokia 808 but I don’t like the OS 
nokia better make more mobile with windows phone 

This is so stupid, why would you need a 41 mega pixel camera on your phone? Is everyone a scientist or something? What matters is the quality of the photograph. Anything more than 13 mega pixels is useless because you can barely tell the difference in pixels after that… Why don’t they just hype the quality instead of pixel size? It’s all about talk and I guess 41 mega pixels sounds amazing to the average consumer and will buy it just for that… They don’t think about the actual quality that is on a little bitty phone. It’s all about who has the most pixels on cameras these days and if you have more you’re bound to sell more phones! Get an DSLR camera or something, that will really hold the best pictures…

lol…to connor campbell….are you talking for yourself or at urself….

This is not a gimmick, The Nokia Pureview 808 oversamples to get really nice quality images, 41MP resized to say 12MP or eve 5MP would virtually eliminate most lower ISO noise, additionally it will allow for a nice digital zoom akin to something optical and has a Zeiss ND8 3-Stop filter built into it that can be enabled or disabled (it is physical not some lame exposure compensation rubbish),So you can get nice long exposures for motion blur or creamy water or help out the bracketing recover bright areas for an HDR mode!
The Sensor is a little smaller than a Micro 4/3 @ 1/1.2″ and the lens aperture is f/2.4 I believe, which gives you the equiv DOF you get at f/5 on an APS-C DSLR and that is a huge advantage over other camera phones or even most Point and Shoot cameras which can only achieve decent DOF buy using some sort of multishot mode like sony or a digital bokeh filter like the Pentax Q has

Can anyone please link me with some Pureview Pics… not full resolutions, (I have them). Rather, I want to see some 8MP and some 5MP “oversampled” pics, and some zoomed pics if possible… I somehow can’t find them..
Anyone?

What is the shutter lag time?

What is the shutter lag time?

Guys, can anyone tell me how can the 808 best process the content recorded in stereo (like ripped mp3′s, mp4 videos, etc.) in accordance with Dolby?

6.1 content is delivered in Stereo headsets, fine. But what about Stereo content?
What kind of processing does the Stereo-recorded content (2 channels) face due to Dolby’s involvement?

What is DOF?

When it will be available in Canada?