The Nokia 808

Nokia PureView 808

The Nokia 808 PureView is the best cameraphone ever made. End of story. Now, how do you proceed from there? And why is this particular phone so hard to write about? How about because a picture is worth a thousand words and we just had a truckload of them in the mother of all shootouts? Or is it because 41 megapixels is more than five, eight, twelve, or the sum thereof, and there's no two ways about it?

Close, but no cigar. What could've easily been an ode to Finnish awesomeness may be no more than a flash in the dark for struggling Nokia and the still-standing-against-all-odds Symbian. That's what makes it hard and we've been there with the Nokia N9.

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the Nokia 808 PureView camera is that good. They wanted something to maybe, just maybe, match the most basic of compact digicams. And they did so well that it scared the living daylights (and the low light) out of a Micro Four Thirds camera.

·         38 megapixel autofocus camera with xenon flash and 1080p@30fps video recording

·         Two capture modes: 38MP/34MP full-res and 3MP/5MP/8MP PureView

·         Camera features: giant 1/1.2" camera sensor, mechanical shutter, ND filter, geotagging, face detection, up to 4x lossless digital zoom

·         Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support

·         Penta-band 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support

·         4" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution

·         Nokia Belle OS with Feature Pack 1

·         Single-core 1.3 GHz ARM 11 CPU and 512 MB RAM

·         Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA and UPnP

·         microHDMI port for HD TV-out functionality

·         GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free voice-guided navigation

·         Digital compass

·         16GB on-board storage, expandable up to 32GB through the microSD card slot

·         Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic

·         DivX and XviD video support

·         Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor

·         Standard 3.5 mm audio jack

·         Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter

·         microUSB port with USB On-the-go support

·         Stereo Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP

·         NFC support

·         Smart and voice dialing

·         Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display