Is a picture worth a thousand words? How about $700? That's the going price of the unlocked version of the Nokia 808 PureView, a phone with a 41-megapixel camera, the highest yet on such a device. The technology behind this camera enables some the best photos we've seen from a phone.

Takes amazing photos and videos; Attractive design; Good Maps and Navigation apps

Outdated Symbian operating system; Low-resolution display; No HDR mode; Much fewer apps than Android and iOS

What's the difference between innovation and an upgrade? Real innovation is when you do something nobody has done before you, that was deemed impossible or not worth pursuing. In the Nokia 808 PureView , which has been conceived and tweaked in Nokia's R&D labs for the last five years we have these...

Groundbreaking PureView camera technology; Good sunlight visibility; Excellent Nokia Rich Recording audio; Free offline voice-guided navigation in most countries

Symbian lacks in apps; browsing and user-friendliness; Low screen pixel density; Chunky and hefty design

The Nokia 808 PureView ($699 list) is an engineering exercise and a collector's item. It's also a near-total failure as a modern smartphone. It packs an amazing 41-megapixel camera sensor, but thanks to an exceedingly long development time, the 808 PureView runs the archaic Symbian OS instead of...

No 4G; Call connection issues; Archaic Symbian OS is a relic; Hit-or-miss touch response; Few apps; Some preloaded apps are broken; Expensive even for an unlocked phone.

The Nokia 808 PureView is a Symbian smartphone with one saving grace: an incredible camera. Dan takes it for a spin in the full MobileBurn review.

incredible, groundbreaking camera; solid build quality

dated and clunky software; low resolution display; no 4G

by Anton D. Nagy The Nokia 808 PureView - winner of the GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2012 and 2012 TIPA Award for Best Imaging Innovation - shocked everyone at this year's Mobile World Congress with its 41-megapixel camera sensor.

+ Stellar camera performance; + Excellent build quality; + Buttery smooth graphics thanks to dedicated GPU; + Display provides great color saturation; contrast and outdoor visibility; + FM transmitting option; + Excellent call quality; + Great speaker; + Free Nokia essential software (Maps; Drive,

- Nokia (ex Symbian) Belle OS; - Some might find it too bulky; - Low amount of applications in the Nokia Store; - Poor browser performance; - Poor social experience

The PureView 808 is easily the best cameraphone yet. But if you're obsessed with imaging quality, be prepared to compromise on performance and usability.

Best cameraphone ever; Superb video and audio recording; Screen easily viewable outdoors

Low-res display; App store lacks the range and breadth of rivals; Symbian Belle OS is temperamental and unintuitive

In part 1 , I looked at the Nokia 808's hardware, in part 2a, I showed how PureView works , in part 2b, I tested the 808 head to head with its predecessors , in part 2c, I looked at the new Camera interface and in p art 2d, I looked at the 808's video capture capabilities , including the Rich

Back in the good old days when Nokia was still at the top of the chain, one of the strongest features of their flagship devices is its camera. Earlier this year, the Finnish company has once again shocked the mobile world with the release of the Nokia PureView 808 with its 41MP image sensor.

The Nokia 808 PureView is getting a lot of attention - if nothing else, the Finns have sparked people's curiosity to unprecedented levels. This review is just the latest in a series of articles we've posted to try and cover every aspect of the most impressive cameraphone we've ever seen.

It's fair to say that having once being top dog in the mobile phone world, Nokia have struggled to really make an impact in the western smartphone market. However, the Finnish company are going the right way about challenging the dominance of Samsung, Apple and HTC by manufacturing a range of...