Nokia 808 PureView
The Nokia 808 PureView is a Symbian-powered smartphone first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress. It is the first smartphone to feature Nokia's PureView Pro technology, a pixel oversampling technique that reduces an image taken at full resolution into a lower resolution picture, thus achieving higher definition and light sensitivity, and enables lossless digital zoom. It was one of the most advanced camera phones at the time of its release in May 2012.
| Manufacturer | Nokia |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Nokia N8 |
| Successor | Nokia Lumia 1020 |
| Dimensions | 123.9 mm (4.88 in) H 60.2 mm (2.37 in) W 13.9 mm (0.55 in) D 17.95 mm (0.707 in) Bulge |
| Mass | 169 g (6.0 oz) |
| Operating system | Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1, upgradeable to Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 |
| CPU | 1.3 GHz Texas Instruments 4377622 ARM11 processor |
| GPU | Broadcom BCM2763 with OpenVG 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support |
| Memory | 512 MB RAM |
| Storage | 16 GB on-board memory |
| Removable storage | microSD up to 1 TB supported |
| Battery | Li-Ion; BV-4D 1400 mAh 3.8 V |
| Display | 4 in (10 cm) AMOLED 2.5D curved nHD display (640x360 pixels) Gorilla glass with easy-clean coating |
| Rear camera | 41 MP 1/1.2 in sensor Carl Zeiss optics F-number: f/2.4 ND filter Xenon flash LED light 1080p 30 fps video with continuous autofocus |
| Front camera | 0.3 MP; 480p 30 fps |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 3.0 Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n DLNA Micro HDMI Micro USB USB On-The-Go Secure NFC 3.5 mm audio connector with TV-out FM transmitter GPS with A-GPS Band I (W-CDMA 2100) Band II (W-CDMA 1900) Band IV (W-CDMA 1700) Band V (W-CDMA 850) Band VIII (W-CDMA 900) GSM 850/900/1800/1900 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
The Nokia 808 features a 41 MP 1/1.2 in (10.67 × 8 mm) sensor and a high-resolution f/2.4 Zeiss all-aspherical 1-group lens. The 808's sensor was the largest (over 4 times larger than typical compact cameras) sensor ever to be used in a cameraphone at the time of its launch, a record previously held by Nokia's N8 and, as of September 2014, by the Panasonic Lumix CM1. The resolution of the sensor remained the highest to be used in a cameraphone until January 2019, when the Honor View 20 was released with a 48 MP sensor.
As of 2023, despite larger 1" sensors and AI processing modern cameraphones can’t provide resolution better than Nokia PureView 808 at least in broad daylight.
The 808 won the award for "Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet" at Mobile World Congress 2012, and the award for Best Imaging Innovation for 2012 from the Technical Image Press Association. It was also given a Gold Award by Digital Photography Review.
On 24 January 2013, Nokia officially confirmed the 808 Pureview to be the last Symbian smartphone. In July 2013, Nokia released the Lumia 1020, a successor running the Windows Phone operating system common to Nokia's newer products.