Nokia 808

 Specifications

General

2G Network     GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network     HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
Announced     2012, February
Status     Coming soon. Exp. release 2012, June

Body

Dimensions     123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm, 95.5 cc
Weight     169 g

Display

Type     AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size     360 x 640 pixels, 4.0 inches (~184 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch     Yes
Protection     Corning Gorilla Glass
     - Nokia ClearBlack display

Sound


Alert types     Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker     Yes
3.5mm jack     Yes
     - Dolby Digital Plus
- Dolby headphone enhancement

Memory

Card slot     microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal     16 GB storage, 1 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM

Data  


  GPRS     Class 33
EDGE     Class 33
Speed     HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, UPnP technology
Bluetooth     Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
NFC     Yes
USB     Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support

Camera

Primary     41 MP (38 MP effective, 7152 x 5368 pixels), Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash

Features

1/1.2'' sensor size, ND filter, up to 4x lossless digital zoom, geo-tagging, face detection

Video     Yes, 1080p@30fps, lossless digital zoom, LED light

Secondary     Yes, VGA; VGA@30fps video recording

Features     OS     Nokia Belle OS

CPU     1.3 GHz ARM 11

Sensors     Accelerometer, proximity, compass

Messaging     SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser     HTML5, Adobe Flash Lite

Radio     Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter

GPS     Yes, with A-GPS support

Java     Yes, MIDP 2.1

Colors     Black, White, Red

     - SNS integration

- Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic

- HDMI port

- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player

- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player

- Voice command/dial

- Document viewer

- Video/photo editor

- Predictive text input

Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh (BV-4D)
Stand-by     Up to 465 h (2G) / Up to 540 h (3G)
Talk time     Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 50 min (3G)

Camera phones have improved dramatically over the last few years, but the camera has always been just ‘another’ phone feature. You can browse the internet, make calls and play games - but this is a camera first and phone second.

The Nokia 808 PureView is one of the most exciting and technologically advanced phones of 2012. Inside, there is a 41-megapixel camera, which is five times the amount of megapixels on the Samsung Galaxy S3 or HTC One X and even more than a digital SLR.

A phone with a 41-megapixel camera, quantity of pixels seems unnecessary. You don’t have to use this resolution - you can if you want, but your memory card will fill up very quickly. Instead select a smaller images size (three, five or eight megapixels ) and the PureView shoots at 41 megapixels, but then combines the pixels into super pixels. This not only makes the  image size smaller, but means there’s less noise.

Photographs taken using the 808 PureView are stunning. They are exceptionally sharp, with fantastic contrast. Colours are natural but vibrant. But it’s the level of detail that blows you away - even in shadowy areas.

Nokia has dramatically improved other camera features too. There isn’t an optical zoom, but – thanks to the mammoth resolution offered by the sensor – the digital zoom is lossless. That means you can zoom in without reducing the quality. It’s also got a proper Xenon flash - which is far brighter than an LED flash, used by most smartphones.

The 808 PureView is not a perfect phone. It runs the Symbian operating system and although it has improved following the Belle update, At around £500 the 808 PureView is expensive, but we’ll hopefully see cheaper phones using the technology in the future. But for now, it’s the best camera phone in the market.