https://youtu.be/p8RHQC0eS_k
When we saw Nokia’s 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we were grudgingly — but decidedly — impressed. Nokia’s 41MP+ camera phone seemed like a joke at first blush, but using satellite imaging technology and pixel oversampling, Nokia has managed to get SLR-quality shots out of a cameraphone. It simply blows the iPhone 4S’s camera out of the water.
But is the 808 PureView just a great camera strapped to a mediocre phone? Not entirely. Sure, as an actual device, the iPhone 4S is leaps and bounds above the Symbian (!) based 808 PureView, but if you want a great multimedia recording device in your pocket that’s also a phone, the 808 PureView comes out ahead.
Case in point. In the video above, Nokia shows off their new Rich Recording Technology, which will be debuting with the PureView 808. The Rich Recording Tech allows a broader range of sound to be captured, as well as far louder audio, without distortion or leaving data behind. In fact, according to Nokia, Rich Recording can record audio up to four times as loud as the iPhone 4S without distortion.
It’s really too bad. The 808 PureView is great technology, but without any apps to take advantage of Nokia’s incredible new cameraphone, the PureView is guaranteed to pretty much be a curio. I’m holding out hope that Apple can license some of these ideas down the road and bring them to market right.
