Nokia Launches 41MP Pureview 808 in India for Rs 34,999

The Finnish handset maker, Nokia launched Pureview 808, a smartphone with a 41 megapixels camera, in India on June 13, 2012 at an event in Delhi. The phone is already listed at the company's official online store. It has an MRP of Rs 34,999, though market price is expected to be a few thousands rupees less.

Pureview 808, which runs on Symbian Belle operating software, is positioned as a smartphone with the world's best camera. The phone uses a proprietary technology to capture 41 mega pixels images and then compresses them into 5 mega pixels images that have vastly superior level of detail and sharpness compared to the pictures taken with other smartphones.

While a user can shoot images in up to 38 mega pixels, Nokia says the best results are obtained when the size is kept at 5 mega pixels. The phone can also shoot 1080P videos.

Apart from the camera, there is little remarkable about Pureview 808. In a market full of phones with dual-core and quad-core processors, the phone is powered by a single-core 1.3Ghz chip. It has a 4-inches screen with a rather disappointing resolution of 360 X 640 pixels. There is 16GB internal storage which is expendable up to 32GB with a microSD card. The phone has 512MB RAM.

Pureview 808 supports Dolby surround sound. Nokia says that Dolby enhances the phone's multimedia capabilities and makes it an ideal device to listen to music or watch movies on the go.