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Lumia with PureView will arrive in the "coming weeks"

by Mark Tyson on 22 August 2012, 10:30

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A Nokia Lumia smartphone powered by Windows Phone 8 and packing a PureView 41-megapixel sensor could be on the cards for the Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone Event on 5th September. In July Nokia developer relations VP, Richard Kerris, said a PureView Lumia would be coming “very soon”. Yesterday the company, via the official Nokia Twitter account, indicated a Lumia PureView device would be revealed in the “coming weeks”.

In response to a fan on the official Nokia page requesting “I hope the PureView is in the next Lumia” Nokia answered “Just keep your eyes and ears open in the next coming weeks…”

The PureView camera component is currently only available in a smartphone called the Nokia 808 PureView which is powered by the declining Symbian OS yet still retails for over £400 in the UK. A combination of price and end of life platform has no doubt throttled sales of this mobile feature smartphone. The combination of a new up-and-coming smartphone OS in Windows Phone 8, the PureView camera and new desirable cutting-edge powerful smartphone hardware will hopefully help remove Nokia from the financial hole it is currently in.

In quality tests against various other smartphones and dedicated compact cameras the PureView camera component has been shown to be a winner and for the foreseeable future could offer Nokia a great unique selling point (USP) with which to outflank the competition. Shortly prior to the smartphone boom feature phones roamed the earth battling each other with megapixel counts, lens and flash specifications. Cameras on phones are very popular and again could help Nokia stand out from the crowd if it offers the best quality convergence devices.

The current Nokia 808 PureView smartphone

The big question for me is how much more expensive will a PureView Lumia device be? Also has Nokia managed to slim the imaging component down a bit so it’s not so bulbous?

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Posted by krazy_olie - Wed 22 Aug 2012 12:19
ooh but will it be win 7.5 or 8?

edit: Probably not actually worth asking.

I will probably end up buying this
Posted by cptwhite_uk - Wed 22 Aug 2012 12:47
Get everything else right Nokia, just in step with the herd, and this will win you my business. Even better, get a Jelly Bean phone on the market with the asthetics of the Lumia range and a Pureview camera and people will flock to it. Camera is a very important aspect for many phone users I would have thought and a major leap forward in this area will drive good sales if the rest of the package is acceptable.
Posted by ksdp37 - Wed 22 Aug 2012 13:05
I'm all for having awesome cameras on phones as it's more convenient, but at the expense of size and weight?

Compared to the latest smartphones, it looks a bit chunky to me….
Posted by Tpyo - Wed 22 Aug 2012 14:04
cptwhite_uk
Get everything else right Nokia, just in step with the herd, and this will win you my business. Even better, get a Jelly Bean phone on the market with the asthetics of the Lumia range and a Pureview camera and people will flock to it. Camera is a very important aspect for many phone users I would have thought and a major leap forward in this area will drive good sales if the rest of the package is acceptable.

I too would buy a smartphone like this. I see a lot of value in a good camera (not only is it saving you from forking out for a separate camera (for general use at least) - it saves you carrying 2 devices around all the time and means you'll always have a camera with you). Within reason, a little extra size/weight wouldn't bother me. As ever, my biggest worry with smartphones is battery life - I'd gladly take them just a little ‘dumber’ for the battery life on my old nokia bricks. My first foray into smartphones couldn't even manage a day of non-use (on standby) without needing to be recharged.
:-s
Posted by wasabi - Thu 23 Aug 2012 09:34
Agree Tpyo. I've gone to using an old cheapy qwertty featurephone which lasts easily 5 days and often more than a week between charges. Teh Android sits unused in the cupboard now.

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