Nokia 808 PureView review: Photo Finnish

22 June 2012
The Nokia 808 PureView is the best cameraphone ever made. End of story. Now, how do you proceed from there? And why is this particular phone so hard to write about? How about because a picture is worth a thousand words and we just had a...

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  • 25 Jun 2012

SnJuan, 25 Jun 2012Nokia can put out a 100 megapixel camera but nobody will ca... moreLooks like quite many cares cause it's the second popular phone here in GSMA and review got 300 comments in two days(often they don't get ever as much) :P

And for Ahmed, you don't seem to know anything about cameras. Happiest and warmest colors aren't best. Those that look real are. And 808 looks real.

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    • Anonymous
    • smi
    • 25 Jun 2012

    ahmed, 25 Jun 2012the photos of galaxy 3 better than nokia 808 in colors and ... moreNokia 808 pureview vs Samsung Galaxy S3 with crops

    Look how ugly Samsung s3 picture.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/77173783@N00/7352044206/

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      • Anonymous
      • KIC
      • 25 Jun 2012

      Very nice review. Love U Nokia..

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        • kKW
        • 25 Jun 2012

        AnonD-21645, 25 Jun 2012I've said it before and I'll say it again... Without car... moreyour comment redundant since nokia doesn't want to sell any in the first place. Why do you think there is no marketing for it and its being released in countries without anyone knowing when it will be. Nokia only released this to satisfy the share holders. They don't wan't to market it or subsidize it because they don't want it outshining the lumias. The same thing happened with the n9. When the same offering comes out for wp then it will be marketed and subsidized.

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          • Fiq
          • tug
          • 25 Jun 2012

          Symbian is still my number one OS choice. Android is more advanced OS than Symbian for me but it's a lil bit complicated.

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            • AnonD-13349
            • kKW
            • 25 Jun 2012

            ahmed, 25 Jun 2012the photos of galaxy 3 better than nokia 808 in colors and ... moreUmm no it doesn't. You are falling victim to over saturation and excessive exposure. If the sgs3 had better colors and brightness than the 808 then it would have to also have better colors and brightness than the dslr and 4/3srds since both the 808 , 4/rds and dslr have the same color reproduction and brightness one would think it would be obvious that the s3's colors and brightness are way off.

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              • Gjj
              • 25 Jun 2012

              I've said it before and I'll say it again...

              Without carrier subsidy, this phone will sink without a trace...

              It's not subsidised in U.S., not available on any UK carrier.. simply no market presence...

              You know, I'd have taken a punt with it for 12 months had it been subsidised... but come on, £450? without contract? Simply not an option for 99% of the population in the middle of a recession... especially when you can get the HTC One X, Xperia S and GS3 all FREE with a decent contract...

              It's a shame, but it'll go down in history as a prototype device, nothing more...

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                • ahmed
                • 9xm
                • 25 Jun 2012

                the photos of galaxy 3 better than nokia 808 in colors and brightness
                everybody look at the photos in the review to see with himself

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                  • SnJuan
                  • vcA
                  • 25 Jun 2012

                  Nokia can put out a 100 megapixel camera but nobody will care as long as it runs an outdated OS.

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                    • peter
                    • TXA
                    • 25 Jun 2012

                    To all haters: this phone has slowest CPU on the market of new phones, and fastest camera with processing image over quad-core android monsters, that are still slow. Miracle? No, just proper use of cpu power.

                    Where this android race for multi-core phones is going, when Android OS itself, does NOT use more than single core? (according to intel investigation).

                    So, you all are just victims of samsung, htc and lg marketing.

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                      • smi
                      • 25 Jun 2012

                      Is now the best phone in the world

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                        • Anonymous
                        • uvt
                        • 25 Jun 2012

                        lol eric fail galaxy s3 - 808 review page got to more than 300 comments within just 2 days !

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                          • teu
                          • 25 Jun 2012

                          well, sybian^3 and anna were epic failures but i gotta say belle is just awesome, fluid,fast and haters please dont talk about stuff without experiencing them.. even the gsmarena team who always were symbian haters says its pretty good and stuff.. the only problem is the lack of app support :) cheers

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                            • 9G$
                            • 25 Jun 2012

                            Nokia 808 is east model nothing is there's in handset expect camera my

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                              • Anonymous
                              • ms4
                              • 25 Jun 2012

                              GSM Arena, thanks for this wonderful review

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                                • thf
                                • 25 Jun 2012

                                AnonD-58791, 25 Jun 2012everything is boring on this phone except camera...@salmonella: i got bored with your comments too... (zzz....)

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                                  • Dom
                                  • 9E9
                                  • 25 Jun 2012

                                  I have the Nokia 808 yesterday. My dad brought it for me. The camera are impressive than my Nikon 3100D.

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                                    • thexboy82
                                    • PS6
                                    • 25 Jun 2012

                                    Anonymous, 25 Jun 2012nokia 808Pv has 289 review comments and Sgs3 has 281 review... morego to dream my dear...

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                                      • u1D
                                      • 25 Jun 2012

                                      everything is boring on this phone except camera...

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                                        • Samarth N8 user..
                                        • Mfx
                                        • 25 Jun 2012

                                        @ GSM Arena Staff:

                                        Guys, you covered the camera is such detail, but you hardly gave an insight into Dolby's music quality??

                                        O God, what is it?
                                        And how are we supposed to know what effects it gives to the music?


                                        Is it similar to Stereo widening on the N8, or different?