Overview

Nokia 808 Pureview: A Revolutionary Smartphone

Overview of Nokia 808 Pureview

The new Nokia 808 Pureview was launched in February 2012. This ground breaking smartphone is every tech lover’s dream. It has a 41 MP camera, fitted with a Carl Zeiss lens that gives images an amazing quality. You can view and record video in full HD with smooth zooming. The zoom technology allows a faster and closer zoom with minimum changes in detail. Taking photos in the dark is always a challenge, but not anymore. This phone has an LED and Xeon camera flash so you can take spontaneous photos even when the lights are low. The Nokia 808 Pureview is the first device in the world that includes Rich Recording. With this technology and a distinctive digital microphone combined with Nokia’s algorithms, audio can be recorded to levels as high as 140 db, without any distortions.

One of the smartest smartphones, the Pureview has an AMOLED display type gives a rich viewing experience. This phone is equipped with an internal memory of 16GB. Buyers can choose from a variety of 3 different colors; red, black and white. Another feature that allows the 808 Pureview to stand out among other smartphones is its instant sharing capability. An intelligent gallery allows users to send their videos and photos instantly to social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter or the can be tapped to others’ phones using NFC. Or if you want a big screen experience, you can connect the phone with an HD TV and view images and videos through wireless streaming or HDMI.

Nokia 808 Pureview Design and Build Quality

Nokia 808 Pureview users have touted it as ‘‘almost perfect’’ and the ‘‘last word’’ with good reason. The phone has a commanding presence and almost perfect styling with smooth lines and all external feature cleanly cut to perfection. The phone is available in red, white, and black colors. Its display screen is the AMOLED capacitive touchscreen type and measures 4 inches with a resolution of 360 x 640 Pixels (184 ppi).The phone’s dimensions are 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm and it weighs 169g. Nokia 808 Pureview uses a 1400 mAh battery, capable of supporting 11 hours of talk time while operating on 2G and 6 hours 50 minutes while on 3G.Standby time is 465 hours for 2G and 540 hours for 3G. Battery rating of just 1000 mAh is on the lower end for smartphone. The phone operates on a Quad-Band GSM network of 850/ 900/1800/1900 MHz frequency bandwidth and a 5-Band 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 HSDPA network.

User Interface and Comfort to Use Nokia 808 Pureview

Nokia 808 Pureview uses the high-end Nokia Belle OS. Its CPU is rated at 1.3GHz. Its user interface is exciting and comfortable to work with. It has a 512 MB RAM and a storage memory of 16GB that one can expand up to 32GB using a microSD card.

Telephone and Phonebook

Nokia 808 Pureview can support 1000 phonebook entries and store up to 2000 SMSs.

Messaging and Email

This phone supports a wide range of messaging platforms including SMS and MMS and IM. The phone supports email and Push Email.

Gallery and Photo Viewer and Video Player

This phone has an excellent-quality 1920 x 1080 pixels (1080p resolution) video camera that records video at 30fps and a 12x digital zoom. Video features include video streaming as well as video sharing.

Nokia 808 Pureview Music Player and FM Radio

This phone has both an MP3 and MP4 music players that deliver high quality sound. It also comes with a good-quality stereo FM Radio player with RDS.

Nokia 808 Pureview Camera and Image Quality

Nokia 808 Pureview has an excellent-quality 41 Megapixels-sensor primary camera that gives very high quality pictures. It also comes with a 0.3Megapixels secondary camera.

Connectivity Options

The connectivity options for this phone include:

• Class 33 GPRS
• Class 33 EDGE
• Bluetooth v 3.0
• USB v2.0
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
• Support for Java is available (MIDP 2.1)

Organizer and Other Utility Tools

Nokia 808 Pureview comes with all the standard organizer tools such as Calendar, Currency Converter, Calculator, and World Clock and so on.

Web Browser and Applications

Nokia 808 Pureview comes with 2 web browsers namely:

• Adobe Flash Lite
• HTML5

Google Maps and GPS

This phone has both Google Maps and GPS (A-GPS). Nokia 808 Pureview also comes with Nokia Maps as well as a host of Nokia Apps.

Distinctive Features of Nokia 808 Pureview

Nokia 808 Pureview has a many outstanding features such as a HDMI port, supports Wi-Fi as well as Java, and operates on 3G internet speeds. Its primary camera has an ultra-high resolution sensor (41 Megapixels).

Value for Money

Nokia 808 Pureview retails at an average price of Rs. 25,000, which is quite pricey.

Verdict

Nokia 808 Pureview is by all standards an excellent smartphone. It operates on 3G internet speeds and has a large internal memory. Its primary camera has one of the best resolutions in the business. It has a HTML5 web browser. It is hard to pick out any weaknesses in this phone, the only exception being its display screen resolution of 184 ppi, which is just average for smartphones. The Rs. 25,000 price tag is steep but it really does offer value for money. All in all, the Nokia 808 Pureview offers excellent value for money at its average retail price of Rs 25,000.