There is no error in that headline – Nokia has really just unveiled the PureView 41-megapixel-sensor camera in one of its new smartphones – the Lumia 808. Additionally, the device has extremely good sound recording capabilities and will also allow the user to capture video content in full HD.

Nokia has today revealed its first device that features Nokia PureView imaging technologies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The phone surprisingly uses Nokia’s Symbian operating system – which is technology that is to be completely discontinued in favour of the Windows version in the near future.

It includes high-resolution sensors and optics from Carl Zeiss, and uses something called oversampling – essentially technology that allows shrinking of the image while still making use of the information in the large number of pixels by choosing the pixels with the most amount of relevant information.

Once you take your photo, you’ll be able to zoom in on it, re-frame it, crop it, or re-size the image and the photo will still retain a great amount of detail – virtually equal to that of a professional digital SLR camera.

The new technology is something Nokia has been working on for five years, and fortunately, the phone will include 16 gigabytes of internal memory for those rather large images.

The 808 PureView also has Dolby Digital Plus sound, so you can watch movies in surround sound.

Nokia got the hype going last week with this little video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR99WWdxmwc

Jo Harlow, Nokia smartphone unit head, wouldn’t say if the PureView technology would be available in Windows Phones this year, but Windows Phone head, Terry Myerson, was looking forward to the day his wife stopped dragging a high-end digital camera around and used a PureView Windows Phone instead.

The Lumia 808 will hit the shelves in May.

[Source: AllThingsD]