"Nokia has clarified to say that you are able to take true 38- and 35-megapixel photos with the 808 PureView. It's just that their pixel-level quality will pretty much suck, with Nokia admitting that it added those options as a sort of creative mode more than anything else. To get the real quality, you'll want to benefit from the oversampling technique and downsize to 3-, 5- or 8-megapixel shots."
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2827158/nokia-808-pureview-launch-pictures-video-preview
extensive explanation here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400773,00.asp
A camera with that many megapixels is totally obsolete in a phone, it just doesn't make sense or is there any case of use that I can't think off right now? You only need that many megapixels for giant posters etc.
The iPhone-bashing is quite funny since the iPhone 4 had one of the best quality cameras among its competitors even though there were phones with higher mega pixel counts out there at the time. See this Macworld ranking for comparison: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article/2010/06/25/151916-macworld_camera_rankings.jpg
This seems to be just another step in the ridiculous direction of an unnecessarily high megapixel count in spite of a decrease in quality and the waste of digital storage.
You are tottaly wrong. That sensor is for reall. If you are i phone user i understand your comment. Please give me evidense, hardware specs. What you do not have.
Its oversampled. So they have a 6mp sensor and extrapolate 41mp from it.
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