Nokia Bringing 41MP Sensor to Lumia Smartphones?
Nokia may be working on a Windows Phone 8 smartphone called EOS which features the 41MP PureView sensor.
The Guardian reports that Nokia's 41-megapixel PureView sensor may be heading to its Lumia range of Windows Phone 8 smartphones. The first new model will supposedly be known as the EOS and slated for a summer release here in the States. Previously the sensor was packed into the Symbian-based Nokia 808 PureView back in July 2012.
Nokia revealed the 41MP sensor in February 2012 during the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. The aim of the sensor was not to produce incredibly large images, but to take great pictures in incredibly low light. On the Nokia 808, images were around 5MP, thus the extra pixels were used for oversampling to reduce the amount of noise caused by the increased sensitivity of the CCD sensor.
"Pixel oversampling combines many pixels to create a single (super) pixel," Nokia explains (pdf). "When this happens, you keep virtually all the detail, but filter away visual noise from the image. The speckled, grainy look you tend to get in low-lighting conditions is greatly reduced. And in good light, visual noise is virtually non-existent. Which means the images you can take are more natural and beautiful than ever."
The level of pixel oversampling is highest when the photographer isn't using the zoom, the company added. It gradually decreases until the maximum zoom is reached, where there is no oversampling. The sensor has an active area of 7728 x 5368 pixels (over 41MP), thus depending on the aspect ratio the user chooses, the sensor will use 7728 x 4354 pixels for 16:9 images/videos, or 7152 x 5368 pixels (38MP) for 4:3 images/videos.
Nokia said that pixels have shrunk over the past 6 years from 2.2 microns, to 1.75 microns, to the current 1.4 microns – devices with 1.1 micron pixels are on the way. The problem is that the smaller you make a pixel, the fewer photons each pixel will collect thus lowering the photons means lowering the image quality. This is where Nokia's super pixel concept comes into play, producing detailed, flawless images.
The company launched the flagship Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 device at the end of 2012, but was criticized for not adding the 41MP PureView sensor. Instead, Nokia tossed in what it calls "floating lens technology", calling on the gyroscope to detect any type of shaking (like unsteady hands) while taking a picture in low light, and compensating by moving the entire phone.
The Guardian notes that Nokia could create some distance between itself and Windows Phone rivals like HTC and Samsung by adding the 41MP PureView sensor to its Lumia line. But that will ultimately be up to Microsoft who defines the hardware specification. Cost could also be an issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IJIrl1G9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX-Jw9mF0J4
and here is combo of its amazing sound recording and light sensetivity/response time and low noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x717XQHfq_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9aFpDkjkMI
I hope they bring the full package of sound recording and the sensor to the next Lumia (EOS) model
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IJIrl1G9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX-Jw9mF0J4
and here is combo of its amazing sound recording and light sensetivity/response time and low noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x717XQHfq_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9aFpDkjkMI
I hope they bring the full package of sound recording and the sensor to the next Lumia (EOS) model
What a shame.
Why does Company on the edge of collapsing chooses The Hard and Difficult way?
But kudos to them if the codename is meant to say that its owned by Captain EO. EO's.
umm... They use CMOS, not CCD... but their idea is kind brilliant, marrying PureView with Lumia. hope these will bring Windows Phone to better sale... ^w^
Holy sh...
Then Nokia put Symbian on their 808... A LOT of people who want to buy the 41mp phone won't purely on the OS choice alone. I can not stay with an abandoned platform for an upgrade. I can be content with Windows. It likely won't be long until Windows will run all the Android market apps too, so there isn't a major downside.
Nice phone and all and I want one but unfortunately the Lumia 800 to 920 does not support 1700 MHz (AWS) frequency band. If the new phone does not support it then I'm done waiting for Nokia to get 1700 MHz (AWS) on their higher end phones. I'll be another ten years before I'll check on their products after that. 3 members of my family are waiting for higher end Nokia phones with that frequency band but 2 couldn't wait and went with Note 2 and S3, One got HTC. I might just check on BB10. That's 3 devices lost of sales for them... I know 5 other relatives were on the same carrier that uses that frequency band and they're getting Nexus and galaxy phones instead. How much more would they loose before they think about that? They should check why Google nexus could barely keep any in their inventory.