MWC 2012 : Nokia 808 PureView avec APN 41 megapixels !

Even if Symbian smartphones sales decline more quickly that expected, Nokia has given up yet what was his fetish until last year mobile OS, before beginning a migration in March forced to Windows Phone.

And Symbian still has the resource, according to the announcement made at the MWC Barcelona 2012 show. Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 808 PureView, a smartphone under Symbian Belle who has the particularity to... an AFN 41 megapixels with Carl Zeiss Optics.

More than for the pleasure of taking huge pictures on mobile operators networks, such sensor is especially intended, when it is fully used to take pictures of quality which can recover a portion that will remain very detailed and that will be exchanged on social networks.

The goal offers an opening of f/2.4, proposes a macro mode to 15 cm and has a Xenon flash, with several possible modes and a 3 x optical zoom. It is also capable of recording video in Full HD 1080p. If the thickness of the smartphone is overall 13.9 mm, she spent almost 18 mm at the location of the AFN.

For "standard" photos, it will be possible to take pictures in a lower resolution. The Nokia 808 PureView proposes a 4 "AMOLED display resolution 640 x 360 pixels (16: 9 format), on-board WiFi (DLNA support), Bluetooth, GPS, FM Radio and module NFC.

There is a HDMI port, a TV output and Dolby sound improvement techniques to turn it into a real element of diffusion on the big screen. The Nokia 808 PureView also is a smartphone quad-band GSM / EDGE and tri-band HSPA +.

It will be proposed from the month of may 2012 for €480 HT. Why propose a technology on Symbian and not on Windows Phone, Nokia now preferred? It seems that Symbian development was already well advanced, to maintain its marketing (a bit like the Nokia N9 under MeeGo).

But, has already promised Jo Harlow, the smartphone Nokia, technology PureView a vocation to be responsible on other platforms and terminals. It should also eventually find it on a smartphone Windows Phone later.

MaJ : on its stand, Nokia confirms that photos taken with the Nokia 808 PureView will not compete with the AFN of the market but highlights the possibilities of "Lossless" zoom (up to three times) within the image incorporated, to obtain a relatively clear picture of detail.

The zoom is done very simply by pressing on the area you want in the photo and demonstrations on a scale model reproducing a district of a city are rather convincing (the little visible character below is little more than 1 or 2 cm on the model).