Behold the new camera revolution!
Enter the Nokia 808 PureView
Did we just got high?
Lets first find out if this baby is worth your money!
The new Carl Zeiss 41MPix sensor was revealed by Nokia in MWC2012 recently and its creating vibes. Many people have even complained of a typo, they think Nokia mistakenly wrote 41MPix instead of 14MPix. First thing, its actually 41MPix auto focus sensor under the hood.
Sensor specifications:
Its a pretty impressive sensor. If you take a 5MPix image with it, you get a lossless zoom up to 12X!
Its a new research by Nokia. No loss of details like in case of Digital zoom and no waste of space in case of optical zoom.
The effective resolution is maxed at 38MPix. Video recording is up to 1920x1080p at 30FPS. Impressive!
Now comes our concern.
1. It has a 1.3Ghz ARM11 SINGLE core processor
-Our Concern: With such huge image processing demands, we have to see how much justice this single core processor does. Nokia claims to have topped its device with an image processing unit right into the camera module and a powerful GPU so that the gigantic image processing can be done with an ease. We will see that!
2. Nokia finally goes for 4 inches screen!
- Our concern: Its a welcome improvement, but, the screen resolution remains at 640x360 pixels that gives it a pixel density of ~184ppi! HTC Wildfire S has a pixel density of ~180ppi and we are not much impressed with that, but no complains as its an entry level phone. This phone is a high end phone with an expected price of 450 Euros!
-Our Concern: We all agree that Symbian is not such a great OS. It has many problems like it hangs at times, it has a comparatively lesser apps in the market, Nokia is not much good at keeping devices updated. You may see one or two more OS upgrades unlike Android. We would have appreciated Windows Phone 7.5 as its OS. WP7.5 is leaner and sweet!
4. No LTE/4G
-Our Concern: Well, question is our concern! Its a 3.5G device at 14.4Mbps max data transfer speed. As its a newer device and Nokia is good at Radios, we were expecting it to have a true LTE. Disappointing!
5. An underpowered battery
-Our Concern: With 1400mAh battery, we don't think it will have enough juice to power the Xenon flash for long! Workaround: Do not use Xenon much! Ok, then why did I buy this 'Camera phone' in the first place?.
6. RAM!
-Our Concern: RAM is 512MB. Thats ok for normal devices, but a device with 41MPix camera which will have huge amount of data being processed per second ? As far as we know, this may not be enough. At least 1GB or more was needed.
7. No Adobe Flash in browser
-Our Concern: Still FlashLite! It will not give you desktop like browsing experience. It does have HTML5 though.
Final Words
The Nokia PureView 808 is a piece of extensive research done by Nokia. Its 41MPix camera is a real revolution and a definite looker, but we will have to wait and see the real device before giving our final verdict.
For now we suggest you to wait till its released and becomes bit used in the market, you will get an idea of its success or failure.
As of now, What The Fun words:
As of now, What The Fun words:
"Nokia 808, mammoth riding on an old cow"
P.S.: No animals were hurt in the creation of this comment.
