Nokia 808 PureView 41 mpx. Smartphone or Camera?
Unveiled at the MWC 2012 the Nokia 808 is detached from the landscape of camera phones with its 41 megapixel sensor! Does this feature alone club, and how it is implemented with technology PureView make this smartphone a real camera? We spent a few days with the Nokia 808 to try to answer this question in this test.
Nokia 808 PureView
Key features:
- Symbian OS Belle
- ARM 11 processor single-core @ 1.3 GHz
- Memory / Storage 512 MB SDRAM /
- Internal 16 GB (32 GB micro SD expansion max)
- Screen technology
- and definition ClearBlack AMOLED 4.0 “
- 640 x 360 pixels
- Mobile networks GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / HSUPA
- Other Wi-Fi b / g / n, Bluetooth 3.0, NFC
- GPS Yes, GPS and A-GPS
- Multimedia FM Radio RDS, certif. DLNA, Dolby Digital Plus
- Battery 1400 mAh
- Autonomy announced 11 hours on 2G),
- 6.5 hours on 3G
- 465 hours standby.
- Dimensions 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm
- Weight 172 g (with battery)
Question camera, the Nokia 808 is generously endowed PureView:
- Sensor 1/1, 2” 41-megapixel (7728 x 5368 pixels);
- effective focal 8.02 mm, 28 mm equivalent (ratio 4:3) in 24 x 36 mm;
- Carl Zeiss optics, aperture f: 2.4;
- mechanical shutter with ND filter;
- Xenon flash;
- 1080p video in 30 frames / s in H.264 up to 25 Mbps.
The Nokia 808 PureView embeds a 41 megapixel sensor type 1/1, 2”. Nokia does not provide information on its size, but we can infer from the size of the photosites (1.4 micron) and the total resolution of 7728 x 5368 that the component measures approximately 10.8 x 7.5 mm. It is therefore smaller than the size of the hybrid Nikon CX 1 (Type 1” or 13.2 x 8.8 mm), but significantly larger than all the compact market, including most “experts “sensors based on 1/1, 7” (about 7.4 x 5.5 mm) or 1/1, 63” (about 8 x 5.5 mm).
Nokia sent us a handy little accessory, pliers with no screws to secure the 808 PureView (and most smartphones in theory) to a tripod. Too bad we did not have before, that we would have facilitated our catch of the test scene …
A small clip, with the grip on each foot, and a tripod mounting one of the ends: what is seen!