Nokia's Windows phone devices to soon get PureView camera

The 41 MP camera sensor of the just-launched Nokia PureView 808 will soon come to Nokia phones running Windows Phone, a media report said.

In an interview to Finnish newspaper Aamulehti, Nokia's executive vice president Jo Harlow said that the camera sensor will be soon be brought to Nokia's Windows Phone devices, but did not say when.

The Symbian-running Nokia 808 PureView sports a mammoth 41 MP camera, and was unveiled at the World Mobile Congress (WMC) currently underway in Barcelona, Spain.

"This is the first smartphone to feature Nokia PureView imaging technologies, bringing together high resolution sensors, exclusive Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia developed algorithms, which will support new high-end imaging experiences for future Nokia products.," an official press release by Nokia said.

"The Nokia 808 PureView features a large, high-resolution 41 megapixel sensor with high-performance Carl Zeiss optics and new pixel oversampling technology," it added.

"At standard resolutions (2/3, 5 and 8 megapixels) this means the ability to zoom without loss of clarity and capture seven pixels of information, condensing into one pixel for the sharpest images imaginable."

"At high-resolution (38 megapixel maximum) it means the ability to capture an image, then zoom, reframe, crop and resize afterwards to expose previously unseen levels of details," the release said.