41 MP camera phone

I am a fan of Nokia (I mention Nokia in an earlier post that added a template to do a 3D print of their phone case).  They use to be the number cell phone company in the world until Samsung and Apple shook up the market.  I love gadgets and I always research a phone, camera, computer and so on before I buy it.  I'm glad to hear that Nokia is still alive and kicking and coming up with their own version of smartphones that can compete with Samsung and Apple.

This post is about Nokia's press release that they will now have a 41 megapixel phone.  They release a preview of this technology last summer with their Nokia 808, the last phone that will have their Symbian operating system.  Some say Symbian is outdated but that's not the point here.  The 808 has the 41mp phone.  This is a little misleading though.  The phone camera does not necessarily take a photo that is 41mp that would cover up an entire wall if printed out.  Instead, it is a technology called PureView that diminishes visual noise.  The PureView produces great images in low light.  What results is the PureView system taking incredibly high-res images by combining up to seven pixels into one eliminating the visual noise found on other mobile phone cameras.  In other words, according to The Gaurdian, each pixel can be determined from the information provided by the redundant pixels, thus eliminating much of the flawed data.

Here is a great review of the 808:



It is really impressive to be able to zoom and still see a very clear picture that is not pixelated.  Editing and cropping won't cause the photo to lose any pixel data and still look beautiful.  The 808 is last years phone and was basically a test run for the PureView technology.  Nokia has now confirmed that the technology will be added to their newer lines of phones, one being called EOS.  This is great news to people who love to take photos and edit them as well, hence the relations to Art and Technology.  If you can't lug around a DSLR everywhere you go, PureView can save you time and space.