Nokia’s ‘True’ PureView Windows Phone set for launch later this year

Nokia’s Pureview 808 is quite the niche product, and ever since it was announced last year at the Mobile World Congress 2012, it went by the wayside because of the Nokia Symbian OS losing its ability to compete with the changing mobile world. But according to The Verge, Nokia is planning a true PureView Windows Phone, and will include a similar image sensor that was introduced with the Nokia 808 PureView last year.

Codenamed “EOS” (an indication of Canon involvement maybe?), it could be the new flagship of the embattled company as it continues to charge ahead to the heights of former years. 41-megapixels in a smartphone is nothing to smile at, rather to gawk at. That is a serious amount of pixels to put on an image sensor, not to mention getting that sensor in a smartphone as was seen in the 808. Or would the device then not be a high-end point-and-shoot-camera disguised as a smartphone?

The handset will be stocked by AT&T later this year, and be cased in aluminium as the Swedish phone maker focuses on a new look and design, and will be classed in the high-end of the Lumia range, together with the new (and as yet unconfirmed) Steve-Jobs-copying lighter and thinner Lumia 920. It would seem that Nokia is pulling out all the stops on this one again. Luckily without Symbian.