Reviews on Nokia 808 PureView

The good: The Htc 808 PureView's excellent, envelope-pushing 41-megapixel picture photographic camera will meet picture fans. It also has strong power supply, an HDMI slot, and constant call quality.

The bad: A more gradually product doesn't go with the 808 PureView's picture photographic camera skills, and it's trapped with a heavy body, a pain in unique key pad, and software that's behind the curvature.

The bottom line: Even if you're only interested in its unique, amazing picture photographic camera, the Htc 808 PureView's poor Symbian Belle OS and more gradually product make it a uncertain investment considering the price, especially since Symbian's days are specific.

The Htc 808 PureView was an immediate hit at Cellular World The legislature in Feb, for one purpose and one purpose alone: its jaw-dropping 41-megapixel photographic camera told attention. Never intended for U.S. markets, the PureView operates on the Symbian OS, which, for many North People in america in whose lives Symbian has never been a popular feature, was useless. It has a heavy body (owing to the massive photographic camera module), but a more frustrating, middle-of-the road brand. Never mind that. The handset's unique photographic camera with lossless zoom capability has generated so much interest that U.S. citizens can now order it from Amazon.com for a cool $700.

The secret behind the photographic camera is an extra-large indicator that dwarves those of regular 5-megapixel and 8-megapixel digital cameras lovers. The larger zoom contacts allows in more light, which in turn allows the PureView catch significantly more information about an image. The second mobile advancement is photographic camera software that allows more ambitious digital cameras lovers play around with creative configurations, and take images in 5- or 8-megapixel solutions so that zoomed-in supports rush with details. CNET photographic camera manager Josh Goldman explains the technique here.

Remove the photographic camera from the formula and you're left with a very good smart phone with an OS that for most in the U.S. is a long-forgotten memory. The PureView technological advancement may be Symbian's swan music here, but it's also a inventive review of smart phone photographic camera technological advancement that drives the limitations of mobile digital cameras in a jump of succeed.