Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:24AM from the that-internal-memory-is-going-to-go-fast dept.

judgecorp writes "We aren't sure what's the strangest thing about Nokia's new offering, the fact that it's got a 41 Megapixel camera or the fact that it runs Symbian. It has a very high resolution sensor and uses oversampling, apparently producing good results in low light. Users can either save a maximum of 38Mpixels, or else zoom and crop for normal resolution images. Observers expected a maximum of one more Symbian phone before Nokia shifts over to Windows Phone. This suggests either a longer life for Symbian — or maybe [that] Symbian was just an easier platform to make a show-stopping device that may turn out to be more of a concept phone."

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Not for taking 38 Megapixel - for 5 megapixel by mrops · 2012-02-28 03:30 · Score: 5, Insightful

The point is not to take 38 megapixel images. I don't know why everyone is focusing on the megapixel, that is not the story here.
The story here is the approach they take, 41 megapixel oversampled images processed algorithmically to produce superior 5 mega pixel images. The story may even be Symbian, definitely not the 41 mega pixel sensor.