The Nokia 808 PureView—Making Megapixels Zoom   posted
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 6:49 PM EST
700-nokia-808-pureview-white-pairThat buzz you've been hearing
isn't a swarm of early spring bees. It's the discussion about
Nokia's 808 PureView smart phone, the one with a 41-Mp sensor
tucked inside.  That's bigger than the 36.3-Mp snesor in the
Nikon D800.  A week ago Damian Dinning, the head of imaging
experience for Nokia smart devices, explained the concept in an
article on the Nokia 808. He was there at the birth.  It isn't
about the megapixels, he argued, explaining "the innovation and
news is not the number of pixels but rather how those pixels are
used."   The team, Dinning said, was working on "imaging rich"
phones that would include optical zoom. Mobile phone screen
sizes were getting bigger and customers were demanding better
image quality from their phones, factors which pushed the limits
of optical zoom design.  The team nearly brought to market a
device that used folded optics to zoom (like many ul