Nokia's PureView camera bound for Windows phones

March 10, 2012, 7:22 AM — The 41-megapixel camera in Nokia's 808 PureView smartphone stunned the tech world last week, nevertheless not the phone itself, which is saddled with an aging Symbian operating system. Fortunately, Nokia says it's bringing the same camera research to Windows Phones.

Jo Harlow, Nokia's executive vice president of smart devices, told the Finnish newspaper Aamulehti that a Windows Phone with PureView camera innovation won't take very long to make, nevertheless she wouldn't say precisely when Nokia would release such a device.

As WPCentral speculates, a PureView-powered Windows Phone could arrive once Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8, code-named Apollo.

Of course, more megapixels doesn't always mean a better camera, nevertheless PCWorld's Ginny Mies got a demo of the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress and thought the photos looked clean, even in low lighting. For all that, with Symbian on board, she said the phone feels "stale, dated, and difficult to use."

The research has been in the making for five years

Because the research has been in the making for five years, Nokia decided to stick with Symbian for the first PureView phone. However with Nokia slowly phasing out Symbian in favor of Windows Phone, the migration of PureView research to Microsoft's operating system isn't a big surprise.