Nokia’s 41-Megapixel 808 PureView is a monstrous feat of smartphone engineering. The camera employs over-sampling to capture information from several pixels for each one pixel of image. The result is 5-Megapixel images with immense detail. All good on paper, but what does it mean in terms of pictures?
We’ve got the first raw 808 PureView shots to show you, so you can judge for yourself. Read more
It appears our intuition served us well in yesterday’s headline when we called the N9 “the MeeGo phone with Windows Phone looks.” In a “super confidential” presentation this morning, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop asked a crowd of attendees to put their cameras away before unveiling a Windows Phone-powered device with overwhelming resemblance to the N9, codenamed ‘Sea Ray’.
Other than a slightly different LED placement on the back of ‘Sea Ray’, the device is almost a mirror image of the N9 — it even uses the same 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens. There is however, a hardware button, presumably for shutter release, along the side.
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Great minds agree — Nokia smartphones offer the best optics available. One device in particular, the Nokia N8, has shown it’s 12-megapixel sensor is something quite special. Leaving point-and-shoot cameras in its wake, the N8 is an excellent example of what Carl Zeiss optics can do for mobile photography. Here are the secrets behind the magic.
The combination of a glass lens, large sensor, and 4-element Tessar optics set the foundation. The continued partnership between Nokia and Carl Zeiss focuses on creating optics which withstand normal influences of use, drops of one meter, and deliver distortion free images with fine detail for poster-size magnifications.
