Nokia 808 PureView Goes Official in the United States

Just as expected, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced on Monday the upcoming availability of its Nokia 808 PureView smartphone on the United States market.

The handset, made official at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was long rumored to be on its way stateside, and things were finally made official. It will be launched in the country via Amazon, featuring a price tag of $699 (€555) and offering support for AT&T’s 3G network. The handset will also offer support for T-Mobile’s 2G bands. The Symbian-based mobile phone will become available for pre-order on Amazon later this week, but users can already sign up on Nokia’s website to receive info on when it will become available for purchase.

The Nokia 808 PureView comes to the market with a 1.3GHz application processor inside, and with a 4.0-inch touchscreen display. It also features 512MB of RAM, 1GB ROM and 16GB of internal memory, complemented by a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space.

The main selling point of this smartphone, however, is its 41-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with highest performance Carl Zeiss optics and featuring Nokia’s PureView technology that enables high-quality imaging and video recording capabilities. “PureView technology means that taking typically sized shots, the camera can use oversampling to combine up to seven pixels into one ‘pure’ pixel, eliminating the visual noise found on other mobile phone cameras,” a post on Nokia Conversations explains.

The smartphone offers full HD 1080p video recording and playback with 4X lossless zoom, while also featuring Nokia Rich Recording, so that users can enjoy CD-like levels of quality when recording audio. “This revolutionary technology has been the culmination of years of hard work by our imaging team, and the Nokia 808 PureView has been met with overwhelming interest from consumers all over the world,” the aforementioned blog post reads. Moreover, Nokia confirmed that the PureView technology – or at least some elements of it – would also make its way to upcoming Windows Phones from the company.

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