Nokia brings the 808 Pure View on the market: a smartphone combined with a 41-megapixel camera. Or was it a compact camera that you can call them and surfing?
Nokia, the Finnish company that we especially remember are decent mobile phones from the nineties where you could trust blindly. The kind of phones that a battery life of a week or longer had and that you could call if you stood beside your partner.
But a mobile phone was in the 2000s a smartphone, and there was more to it than just calling. Nokia was overtaken by brands like Apple, Samsung and HTC. Until Nokia realized that it actually still makes good phones, but there are some bells and whistles are missing.
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The 808 Pure View is the result of what the Finns had in mind when they invented the smartphone. She worked for five years at the unit, which makes him slightly outdated look. The large sensor camera with flash, Carl Zeiss also creates a bulge at the top of the unit that is certainly not doing thinner and more elegant look. Though he immediately Eve from Wall-E when I compared him to friends suggested.
With a weight of 169 grams, he can indeed not be counted among the lightest. This weight is also mainly caused by the large sensor and if you hold the phone, you can feel the weight also left tilt, where the sensor.
Camera buttons on the side
Nokia is limited to a traditional home button front. The rest of the phone you control via the touchscreen. On the side there are three physical buttons or specifically the camera to operate. A button is used to switch to camera mode; one is the shutter release and a must to get in and out. Just like a real compact camera is easy to stabilize the phone to take pictures.
Furthermore you plan a mini-USB and an HDMI port and you can also plug your ears. Charging and download photos, the easiest this way, though you can also find the microSD card out when you remove the battery. Who loves the way much longer than expected? In the pocket keeps it comfortable for a few days. A night shooting at a party does not mean that you should include.
The screen is a 4-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 640 by 360 pixels. This is smaller than the screen in the typical smartphone on the market today, and it is also a strange choice for a device that has a camera with the highest resolution to obtain. So the next time that Nokia has taken to develop the device and has not looked at the innovations over the years on the market come.
Excellent brightness
The brightness and color of the screen is plus. Even in bright sunlight you keep the screen clear and see if you like a light to a dark room or vice versa are, adjust the screen quickly and correctly. The colors are true, something which is essential to a device that is located next compacts wants profiling.
Also in terms of operating system, Nokia indeed is lagging behind. What should be their flagship, running Nokia Belle - a pubic name for the homemade Symbian. A bit strange when you know that the Nokia Symbian platform will slowly disappear completely and bet on Windows Phone.
Slow
The reason for the future transition to Windows Phone allows quickly be apparent when you view the 808 Pure want to use as a real smartphone. Nokia Belle looks a bit like a real smartphone, but is not responding as it should. Everything is slow. Apps loading takes time, surf websites takes time, even just scrolling on pages takes time. So much time that you will specify soon. The smartphone is good to call text messages and take pictures, but ask him more and feel it crack under the workload. We are sorry!
Handsome photos
But the main reason why you would choose an 808 Pure View is of course the camera. We tested it on a Saturday night at a party because the moments where you have a camera at hand will.
The colors in the photos are beautiful, that we have already said, the camera operation goes smoothly and you get the chance to create different things like shooting mode, ISO speed, focus and flash to choose. Shutter speed and aperture can not choose, but you get a lot more options than the average smartphone, and the service is very intuitive.
Digital zoom is done by the button on the side or up or down on the screen to iron. Also HD filming succeeds fine. Even if we go up to ISO 1600, the camera is strong and you get minimal noise in the image. Impressive.
The oversampling technique
But how Nokia manages it? The strength lies in the 41-megapixel sensor. These are many more pixels than even the most SLR devices; the camera is only used in an alternative way.
Nokia argues that you should not take pictures with the full resolution of the sensor, and choose maximum 38 or 34 mega pixel images. This is the conventional way of photographing. But if you choose a smaller but still acceptable format, 8 mega pixel examples, use the Nokia oversampling technique. The sensor then uses his full strength to the frame, and you get 8 pixels to one point with all the information. Result: a photograph showing a highly accurate color and unaffected by noise in the higher ISO values.
But even if you opt for all pixels, the quality of the photos up and proves that Nokia has worked closely with Carl Zeiss to a working camera. You can give quick camera mode, the shutter button on the side again briefly. Handy!
The only weakness that the camera shares with his colleagues smart phone’s slowness in auto focus. You notice all in daylight, but at a party where you mostly have to do with atmospheric lighting and moving people, it sometimes takes a long time for the camera will focus. And then the moment is sometimes beyond.
Conclusion
The Nokia 808 Pure View is a smartphone with great potential and a stunning camera, which unfortunately slowed down by an outdated operating system and design. We hope that his successor equips Nokia with Windows Phone and Android.
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