Nokia 8 announced: its dual camera boasts Zeiss lens and OZO audio
“With the Nokia 8 –
we wanted to create the ultimate tool to tell our story”. That’s what HMD told
us and we think is a perfect description for this dual-eyed Finn. Any story
that stars Carl Zeiss is one we’ll listen to, but let’s start at the beginning.
The Nokia 8 has a
5.3” IPS LCD display on the front with QHD resolution and a blinding 700nits of
max brightness. 2.5D Gorilla Glass 5 curves into the phone’s metal shell, which
is milled out of 6000 series aluminum. The phone measures 7.9mm at the thickest
point and has basic resistance to the elements with an IP54 rating.
The optical engineers at Zeiss helped make
the lens for both the rear and the front cameras. The main camera features two
13MP sensors (color + monochrome) with 1.12µm pixels and an f/2.0 aperture. The
color camera has optical image stabilization (OIS) and there is Laser autofocus
and a dual LED flash to help in the dark.
The selfie camera is one-eyed, but otherwise
similar – 13MP sensor (1.12µm pixels) with an f/2.0 aperture and phase
detection autofocus. The phone can livestream split-screen footage from the
front and back cameras to YouTube and Facebook, something HMD calls Dual-Sight.
OZO – Nokia’s camera division – co-developed
the 360° spatial surround audio recording, which will capture sound with a
quality to match the sharp 4K video imagery. A rare feature, binaural audio,
will give your viewers and even more immersive experience. The powerful
Snapdragon 835 chipset handles all the necessary processing.
HMD partnered with Google to make Google
Photos the default gallery app on the phone. You’ll get unlimited photo and
video storage in the cloud, to bolster the 64GB built-in memory (there’s a
microSD slot if you prefer to keep things offline).
The Nokia 8 will start selling globally in
September at a price of €600, which is steep but par for the course on a
flagship smartphone. Pure Android (7.1 at launch) will allow HMD to breeze
through major software updates, though the time frame for Android O is still
under wraps.
Source: gsmarena
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