Happy with your phone's 8MP camera? Surely 41 of them would be preferable? Nokia thinks so, and is trying to prove the point with the 808 Pureview.

The Nokia 808 PureView exists because smartphones have made compact cameras all but obsolete. A 41Mp camera strapped to a dated Symbian smartphone , the Nokia 808 PureView is a strange mix of awesome and awful, probably best viewed as a compact camera with low-end smartphone functions attached.

- 1 egg for the outdated hardware though the OS is optimized and works w/o lag

Great camera

- 1 egg for Symbian Belle - lack of applications - even MS Skydrive is with limited features (you can only use it pull contacts and photos for easy upgrade to Windows 8

At Mobile World Congress this year, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cast a wary eye over the catalog of shiny new phones introduced by his competitors and posed the challenge, "which ones will you remember?

Beats every other cameraphone by a wide margin; 38-megapixel photos are surprisingly good; Great call quality

Web browser is unusable; Symbian Belle feels like a terrible imitation of Android; Low-res display; Camera hump is a hindrance

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

Truly staggering camera technology - it's such a shame Nokia chose to debut it on such an underwhelming smartphone

If you're after a compact phone to fit in your slimline handbag or

Amazing camera; captures sharp Full HD video; strong battery life; decent performance

Clunky OS; irritating virtual keyboard; lack of apps; chunky build

As Nokia's Symbian hardware development comes to an end, its long awaited "Game Changer" device has finally hit the UK streets with its killer camera.

Amazing camera; Decent 720p output; High quality audio

No contract options; Symbian nearing end; Unprotected camera; Bulky device

The Nokia PureView 808 features a large 41 megapixel sensor. This is not only a much higher resolution than other mobile phones (with others maxing out at 16 megapixels), it's also vastly higher than compact cameras (max 18.2mp), compact system cameras (max 24.3mp), digital SLRs (max 36.3mp), and is...

41 megapixel sensor - excellent detail; f/2.4 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens; Good level of control; Lossless zoom available on a phone; Impressive flash performance; Large bright 4inch screen; Advanced video recording options; Responsive camera/phone interface; GPS/Wi-Fi/3G/Bluetooth connectivity built in

Shooting at full resolution creates large JPEG images; upto 16MB each; Benefits of "PureView" and lossless zoom at a much lower resolution (8/5mp; Running Symbian - an increasingly unsupported phone OS; Self-timer can't be selected with other shooting modes; Not available on contract in the UK

The 808 Pureview: In typical Nokia style of these days, it's excellent quality. Design is excellent and ergonomics is excellent. Call quality is impeccable and so is cellular reception. The major selling point, the 41MP camera, is quite unmatched compared to all other camera phones.