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hey everyone it's anton from pocket now and this is the full review of the Nokia 808 PureView and usually at this point we're showing the device we're now showing only the box because we are using the phone to actually record this intro footage so that you can see how well it records 1080p video the Nokia 808 PureView is a successor to the Nokia n8 it wants to be the king of camera phones but whether it manages to be or not it's up to us to decide and for you based on our full review which is coming up right now there is only one aspect in which the Nokia 808 PureView can compete with current Android phones iPhones and even some windows phones on the market and that is the 41 megapixel camera sensor the rest of the specs while modest compared to phones and other platforms are still a huge step up from the internals of the n8 Nokia's x-camera flagship there's a 1.3 gigahertz arm 11 processor powering the 808 PureView aided by 512 megabytes of RAM there are sixteen gigabytes of internal storage expandable via microSD card and one gigabyte of ROM which while still used for out-of-the-box applications holds enough space for your own applications in order to cope with extremely demanding tasks of course graphics wise of handling 41 megapixel images the 808 processor is aided by a dedicated Broadcom BCM 2763 GPU step up from the GPU on the n8 thanks to the addition of the GPU capturing images processing them pinching zooming scrolling you name it other graphic applications are extremely smooth the screen is a 4 inch AMOLED display with Nokia's clear black technology but the resolution while modest compared to nowadays HD screens is standard for the Symbian platform and other Nokia devices running it an HD 360 pixels across 640 pixels down as you'd expect from a ClearBlack AMOLED display made by Nokia it delivers excellent colors contrast ratios and deep blacks outdoor visibility is elevated and if you don't mind the small resolution it could be the perfect screen for you of course you will not be able to see all the details in a 38 megapixel picture for instance on this NHD resolution screen but the software zooming in the gallery helps a lot however the color reproduction of the screen goes hand-in-hand with the great camera system to deliver real rich colors which are not oversaturated connectivity wise the 808 PureView has Wi-Fi b/g/n with DLNA bluetooth 3.0 and frequency support for most gsm and HSDPA frequencies there's also an NFC chip included with the antenna being placed on the back cover and there's a micro USB and the micro HDMI port for syncing and respectively mirroring the front of the phone is taken up by the 4-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen and the entire front panel is Gorilla Glass the top part is dominated by a discreet chrome Nokia branding just between the screen and the speaker grille at the far top to its right there's the proximity sensor vga webcam and ambient light sensor the very bottom of the phone holds the green cool Start menu and red cool and power hardware buttons which are made up of a single piece of plastic when the phone is turned off or sleeping you can only see the power button but once the backlight kicks in red white and green colors light up there's nothing on the left side of the phone but the right side is where you find your four buttons three black and a silver one the top are volume rockers and the one on the bottom is your two-stage focus shutter release camera button which has a very nice click and travel to it you can't miss any of the two stages the middle button is basically slider which is used to lock or unlock the phone the top part as well as the sides back and bottom everything really accepted the glass on the front it's made out of the same polycarbonate which embraces the phone you'll find your 3.5 millimeter headphone jack here on the top far-right while the microUSB port that Center for syncing and charging a small microphone hole next to it for noise cancellation and a latch which where's the HDMI inscription it's where you can find a micro HDMI port for mirroring your display on a big screen not yet it'll make the bottom of the 808 PureView extremely crowded you will only find your main mic I'm responsible for your voice goals and a small lanyard hole to use with your bundle wrist wrap nokia renamed Symbian Belle to Nakia Belle and the unit which we are reviewing runs Nokia Belle feature pack 1 it is not Android but it has many similarities with the Google mobile platform starting from widgets continuing with home screens and last but not least the slide down notification tray a maximum number of six home screens can be set up at any time but depending on your usage you can find even three or four to be enough each home screen can have its own wallpaper and the lock screen as well as the app tray will pick up the wallpaper of the home screen active before the device gets locked and you can add both widgets and shortcuts to every one of them there are 46 widgets available out of the box from the simplest 3G or Wi-Fi toggle on/off to the more complex widgets like calendars social or email while they are not resizable and some of them are pretty large so that you can only have a maximum number of two on one screen you can easily find a winning combination according to your usage the Nokia 808 PureView with Nokia Belle comes with almost everything you need out of the box the email application comes with full Microsoft Exchange support as well as easy to set up common accounts like Windows Live Yahoo or Gmail there is a full suit of Microsoft Office Mobile on the Nokia 808 PureView with Excel PowerPoint word and one notes this is testifying for the strong relationship between the two companies there's also collaboration tools like SharePoint and Microsoft Lync so you should be well covered from this perspective as with the case of any Nokia product recently you will have full maps and offline voice guided navigation on your phone to find your way GPS works surprisingly good on the 808 PureView with fast locks and accurate position reporting and if you live in a region supported you will also benefit from the public transport application which guides you throughout major cities where available the camera on the 808 PureView is without a doubt its main feature and selling point the 41 megapixel sensor would be a gimmick for most out there if it weren't for the PureView technology to cleverly use up all those huge amounts of pixels there are two main features of the peer-review technology image quality and lossless zoom in terms of image quality you can take either eight five or three megapixel images employing the PureView technology nokia is using something called pixel over sampling which could be misleading because over sampling in this case doesn't refer to inflating pixels but creating a so-called super pixel in case of eight megapixel images there's a ratio of five to one and creating images from full-size to eight this picture of our sampling combines multiple pixels into a single pixel the amount of pixels combined depends on the resolution of your final image eight megapixel images contain super pixels combined of less pixels than three megapixel pictures as far as lossless zoom is concerned the 808 PureView is not employing any optical zoom and no digital zooming either which means no pixelation but how does it soom then whenever you zoom into a portion of the screen the amount of pixels required to create a super pixel is reduced to zero when reaching maximum zoom to put this in a simple context when you reach the maximum zoom available according to the final image size you will basically get a one-to-one crop of the image sensor the exact procedure is applied when recording videos 1080p videos will benefit from 4x lossless zoom by cropping towards one-to-one and 720p videos can zoom to 6 X hole in a lossless way as far as camera modes are concerned there are three automatic scenes and creative in creative mode you can select the sensor mode PureView four eight five and three megapixel over sampled images for a full resolution to use all the pixels available without over sampling which is useful if you want to edit your pictures on a computer you can think of it as a raw mode even though the 808 doesn't support RAW files the Nokia 808 PureView comes with an MZ neutral density filter think of it as sunglasses for your lenses it reduces the amount of light that reaches the sensor and you have the option of turning it on off or setting it to automatic you can really play with the ND filter and ISO modes in order to tweak the exposure times as in shutter speeds in case of long exposures for blurred images or night shots shutter speed which you can manually set can go as high as almost three seconds with the ND filter you can also capture those effects which make your photographs really stand out like blurring the movement of water flow battery life is a tricky one if the 14 hundred million power battery on the 808 PureView only lasted half a day in our first two days of usage after the novelty of the camera faded away it settled in at around a full day worth of juice be careful the camera will kill your battery quickly and if you allow this to happen and also you see non flash it will drain in no time coal polity is exceptionally good on the phone the earpiece produces a pleasant sound which isn't at all dull and since we're talking about audio we definitely like the speaker at the back of the phone which produces loud and clear sounds our biggest annoyance with the 808 PureView was the internet browser it is slow and unresponsive at the beginning once pages are loaded it is still far from the buttery smoothness you experience while in the gallery or manipulating photos the 808 PureView was destined to be a worthy follow-up for the Nokia n9 and that it is it is undoubtedly the best camera phone on the market at the moment hands down while you can regard it as a camera phone with phone functionality or a smart camera both descriptions will be ingest Symbian is still a smartphone platform even if abandoned however the experience as well as the selection of applications available in the store are far from what Android or iOS will offer we should buy this phone if you are not a power user and your daily usage implies using the phone sending emails texts listening to music snapping pictures and recording videos plus the occasional navigation then this phone is for you however if smartphone functionality is more important for you than the camera you should probably either pass on this one if you are completely uninterested or if you're interested wait for the PureView technology to come to Windows Phone at the end of the day the 808 PureView might only be proof of concept a pioneer of a soon to become collector's item but not yet surely managed to step up the game in a serious way we raid the Nokia 808 PureView six point seven out of 10 mainly because the platform used hardware is excellent even if we're not looking at the latest quad-core chips in comparison the camera is like nothing else out there this wasn't on the united front pocket now and the Nokia 808 PureView if you have enjoyed this video please give us a thumbs up and thank you very much for watching