Mobility
The Nokia 808 PureView has the largest sensor in a smartphone available on the market today, but without operator support Nokia is unlikely to sell many. So why the uber-cameraphone even exist?
Nokia last week released a new smartphone equipped with an eye-watering 41-megapixel camera . But with the company struggling to sell any of its Windows smartphones and no UK retailers stocking the massively megapixelled 808 PureView, why does the device even exist?
With its 1.3GHz single-core processor, the latest version of the Nokia Symbian (Belle) operating system and, of course, camera credentials, the 808 PureView can shame any other smartphone on the market.
However, I suspect that Nokia isn't banking on selling too many of these devices - the four biggest operators in the UK have decided not to carry the device, while Three is still making up its mind.
A spokesman for Three said "there is interest around this phone, but at the moment Three has nothing to announce" - hardly reassuring words for Nokia.
Think about that for a second. Consumers are interested, meaning the network should be interested. On top of that, none of Three's competitors are selling the PureView, potentially giving it a point of differentiation in a crowded market - but even that isn't enough to get a commitment from Three to sell the PureView.
Of course Nokia knows a slightly chunky handset, running an operating system it has all but abandoned, isn't likely to sell in droves (unless you pick one up as a future museum piece), especially when it's saddled with a £500 price tag and no network support for subsidising sales.
So why make the PureView at all?
Caption by: Ben Woods
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