Now then boys, girls and nerds, we went through the whole do-megapixels-matter thing a few weeks ago when you were last here to sell iPads and see if we buy laptops. Short answer – only with the right tech to back them up and when needed for an appropriate final use, e.g. a 12MP camera for a 5 x 8 of your dog is a waste, but for a billboard then yes, yes it can be a good thing. But let’s leave our suspicions aside for a moment.

Nokia has announced the new 808 Pureview smartphone. They’re aiming for a June 2012 release to let us all make the most of taking photos of festivals, holidays etc. (as least that’s what we’d do if we were their PR!)

Phone Spacs (taken from the Nokia website)

• Size: 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9 mm (17.95 mm at camera)
• Weight (with battery): 169 g
• 16 GB internal user memory
• Support for up to 48 GB with an external microSD memory card
• Use as USB mass memory device for storing photos, documents and more
• Talk time (maximum): 2G Talk time: up to 9 hours. 3G Talk time: up to 6.5 hours
• Standby time (maximum): 2G Standby [No screensaver]: up to 500 hours. 3G Standby [No screensaver]: up to 550 hours
• Wired Music playback [128 kbps 44.1 kHz mp3]: Up to 80 hours
• IHF Music playback [128 kbps 44.1 kHz mp3]: Up to 45 hours
• Screen size: 4″
• Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED
• 16.7 million colours
• 2.5 D curved glass
• Capacitive touch screen
• Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)
• Compass (magnetometer)
• Proximity sensor
• Up to six customisable home screens:
• Bluetooth 3.0
• High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
• Micro USB connector and charging

Good, great excellent, lovely. Now the camera (specs from Nokia)

• 41 megapixel camera sensor with Nokia Pureview Pro imaging technology and Carl Zeiss optics
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy on-screen touch controls
• Xenon flash with operating range up to 3.5 m depending on conditions. Automatic fill-flash
• LED for video recording
• Focal length: 8.02 mm (35 mm equivalent focal length -26 mm, 16:9 / 28 mm, 4:3)
• Auto focus and touch to focus
• Focus modes: Hyperfocal, Macro, Infinity and Auto
• Focus range: 15 cm ~ infinity
• Macro focus 15-50 cm
• F number/aperture: F2.4
• Supported aspect ratios and resolutions True 16:9 (2 MP, 5 MP [Default], 8 MP, 34 MP) 4:3 (3 MP, 5 MP, 8 MP, 38 MP)
• Three shooting modes: Auto, Scenes, Creative
• Face detection software
• Launch camera from lock with full press of capture key

We checked a bunch of reviews and most of them essentially did this face at the 41MP camera….

… but we hope Nokia can see why we’re sceptical. It’s NOT ALL ABOUT MP! But they’ve done more than just fling megapixels around. Their aim is to make the camera the most high performing on a smartphone in terms of great images in low lighting, superb zoom, easy sharing etc.

You can read a great review here http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/hands-on-nokia-808-pureview-review-1066719

We love Nokia. You can do the whole sell my mobile thing for every Nokia out there (even the weird ones!) We’re still on the fence about whether their focus on camera-plus-smartphone rather than smartphone-with-camera will pay off. Nokia have fallen to just 7.1% of the UK smartphone market., so they need a win.

We buy laptops, smartphones and everything else on the market that’s salvageable. Our sell my mobile service means super folks like you can sell for cash and feed your smartphone habit. We’ve got the top rates for heaps of Nokias, so head over to the quote screen and see if you could sell for cash, too!