The trend towards multiple cameras continues: with the Nokia 9 PureView, HMD Global has now unveiled the world’s first smartphone with a five-camera array at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The five lenses simultaneously trigger and combine the twelve-megapixel resolution photos into an HDR recording with “exceptional dynamic range and depth of field,” as the manufacturer promises.
The five-camera array has two color and three monochrome sensors for improved sharpness and detail. The five lenses work in unison to capture up to ten times as much light as a single color sensor of the same type. Each captured image is in HDR, with a dynamic range of up to 12.4 f-stops and a full twelve-megapixel depth map , It allows a bokeh effect and even the retrospective adjustment of focus in Google Photos. The Nokia 9 PureView also supports storage in uncompressed DNG format and, thanks to a collaboration with Adobe Lightroom, editing directly in the device.
On the front, the Nokia is waiting with a 20-megapixel camera, the results of which can be viewed on the 5.99-inch P-OLED display with a resolution of 1440 x 2880 pixels. Among them provide Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 processor and six gigabytes of RAM for the necessary drive. The internal memory is 128 gigabytes.
The eight-millimeter-thin and 172-gram device has a USB-C also wirelessly loadable 3320 mAh battery, the maximum runtime in voice over the manufacturer’s 4G network with up to 28 hours indicates. Dual-band WLAN, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and a fingerprint sensor under the display complete the offer. The Nokia 9 PureView will be available from the end of March at a price of around 650 euros.