Nokia has confirmed that the camera technology behind its incredible 41-Megapixel PureView 808 smartphone will soon be found in the company’s Windows Phone-based Lumia phones.
Speaking with Finnish newspaper Aamulehti, Nokia’s Vice President of Marketing, Jo Harlow, mentioned that the PureView camera technology will be coming to Lumia phones. It won’t take too long either, with Harlow being quoted as saying “it will not take very long”, as the tech is now established and in place.
Nokia has always been held in high regard when it comes to top quality camera phones – from the ground-breaking N90 through to the Symbian-based N8 with its brilliant 12-Megapixel sensor. However, the Finnish manufacturer blew everything else away last week and topped that with the new PureView 808: a smartphone with a whopping 41-Megapixel rear camera.
The new PureView camera technology works by oversampling images, resulting in a huge high resolution image that the user can crop and zoom in on almost any section, without losing picture quality. Although the phone is billed as having a 41-Megapixel camera, the PureView technology tells the sensor to combine pixels so that you’re capturing 5 or 8 million pixels (megapixels). Images taken in a 4:3 ratio are actually 38-Megapixel snaps, while widescreen 16:9 images use 34-Megapixels.
Nokia’s current run of Windows Phones features the Lumia 800 and 900, both of which have fantastic 8-Megapixel cameras with Carl Zeiss lenses, LED flash and Full HD video recording. It looks likely that Nokia plans to top this, bringing and even better camera experience to its Windows Phones with the PureView technology.
We don’t know when to expect to see new Windows Phones from Nokia, although with the company just revealing the new Lumia 610 and the Lumia 900 for European markets, we’re certain it won’t be until much later in the year at least.
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