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Nokia has introduced its first Symbian 3 smartphone, the N8. The handset's headline feature: a 12Mp camera that the Finnish phone giant claimed can "rival dedicated point and shoot cameras". Nokia N8 Nokia's N8: compact camera-beating snapper? Key to that claim are Carl Zeiss optics, a xenon flash and a "substantially" …

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  1. Adrian Jones

    "didn't specify how large the sensor actually is"

    According to http://www.symbian.org/devices/nokia-n8 and Nokia Conversations website, it's 12-megapixels.

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    1. Doc Spock
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      Re: Sensor Size

      I believe the question refers to the physical size of the sensor, not the resolution. The importance being that a larger physical size is better, for a fixed resolution.

      For example, see http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp

      The answer to this question seems to be 1/1.9" which, according to the following page, is quite impressive:

      http://blog.gsmarena.com/how-large-is-the-nokia-n8-12-megapixel-large-image-sensor/

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Who is Sarah Goldberg?

    Who is Sarah Goldberg? And what will be amazing?

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  3. sleepy

    the death spasms continue

    It's not about the phone, it's about the platform. And this one is just a curiosity on the inside.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Maybe...

    Could this be a decent Nokia phone at last?

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