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I'm Krystina giving you your first look at the Nokia 808 PureView phone this is an unlocked phone but it is available from Amazon in the US it will cost you about $700 now why would anybody want to spend $700 on this phone well the big draw is the camera it can technically take photos up to 41 megapixels but most of the time you're really going to resolve your pictures in 5 megapixels or 8 megapixels and then use the fancy zooming and that's how you get your 41 megapixels of information so suffice it to say that the pictures on here are pretty amazing and this is a very unique phone with a very unique camera there are also some more creative modes on here for the more serious photographer so you can do a lot with this phone in terms of the camera now what about beyond the camera well there is the body of the phone of course the design the camera does take up a lot of space mostly because the lens on here is actually physically much larger than you would find on your regular 5 megapixel or 8 megapixel camera and that's what gives the camera its edge however it does also add a really big bump so the phone feels pretty balanced in the hand it is a little bit heavier but this is definitely not slipping into pocket it's very easily the phone comes in this white color which I pretty much like it's got a four inch screen on it not too small by most standards however I did find the typing on the virtual keyboard very cramped and that could just be styled the keyboard it runs Symbian Belle as its operating system and if you are familiar with Symbian then you'll find that this will be a little bit of a bump up from the previous version if you're not familiar with Symbian OS it's going to offer you a little bit of a learning curve I didn't think it's very hard but if you're coming from another smartphone operating system and you're using this it will definitely take some time to relearn what goes where and how everything operates there are two external features I'm going to call out the first is this dedicated HDMI out port which makes it really easy to plug into your TV the second is that the camera does turn into a very bright flashlight when you pull and hold down on the screen unlock button on this nokia has always been ahead of the curve with NFC there is NFC on the 808 PureView so you can do anything from yes mobile payments but you can also tap to pair two Bluetooth devices and various other things there are sixteen gigabytes of storage here on this phone so that's pretty good there's also an expandable memory slot so that you can add more most people I think will be interested in a peer view because of the camera and it is quite unique but unless you're a Symbian diehard and unless you have $700 laying around for an unlocked phone on an operating system that you're not familiar with then I would skip this one it is pricey but very fascinating experiment I'm Jessica's all courtesy net this is the Nokia 808 PureView