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We all know that the Finnish company, Nokia used to be the pioneer in mobile phones. Come on – honestly, who does not remember 3310 – the one strong contender that would give, even Chuck Norris, a hard time.
Over time the Nokia star somewhat lost its brightness; and although the ‘avoiding meteor’ days for the big star might be not be over just yet, it has joined hands with Microsoft and is now the leading Windows Phone selling company around – see, Isn’t that bit of shine just beautiful now?
So dropping the astronomical relations and coming back to Earth where beautiful events such as the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and MWC (Mobile World Congress) are held each year. Oh yes, the events that we all look forward to in wake of what latest gadget or technology we are going to get to lay our hands on in the (near) future.
The MWC this year was big as always. Many companies brought their soon to be released gadgets, and Nokia was one of such companies. Among the smartphones that Nokia had brought along to exhibit at the MWC, the Nokia Pureview 808 was a highlight of its showcase.
The Pureview 808 is one giant phone. The big giant utilizes the Symbian Operating System, and who knows, this could be the last Symbian phone by Nokia. Pureview 808 is equipped with the Nokia Belle OS and a 1.3 GHz ARM 11 processor. The giant 4 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen features Nokia ClearBlack display, promising bright and sharp colours.
The main attraction of this smartphone is its camera. The smartphone features a 41 Megapixel camera. Yes, you read it right, a never seen before 41 MP camera; one which features Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and Xenon flash.
The camera features a 1/1.2” sensor size, an ND filter and up to 3x lossless digital zoom. Other features include geo-tagging and face detection, etc.
The camera is by default set to 41 MP, but can be adjusted to lower MP. Nokia recommends using at 5 MP, and claims its lossless effectiveness to be up to 38 MP.
The image quality is no doubt great, but there is no real application of the use of a 41 MP camera in our everyday lives. The image clarity, however, is indeed outstanding at a lower resolution
Now this is no doubt a great feat integrating such an outstanding sense technology into a smartphone, but somewhere along the line competition took over the discipline in manufacturing smartphones; and now the services or purpose of the services they offer have fallen far out of proportion. Others may argue, but why not rather get a proper digital camera dedicated to the task of photography and video recording if you are just aiming to buy a smartphone for the sake of the camera it includes as one of its features.
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