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My phone can do infinite resolution, I just stick the image in the Gimp and resize it to however large I want.

What the hell, sensationalist title?

The sensor is 41MP. Read the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638189

Full-res samples: http://cdn.conversations.nokia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-conte...

No, this phone will actually have a 41MP sensor. It will typically produce 5 or 8MP images, though, downsampling the original image, resulting in a lot lower noise than with a normal 5 or 8MP camera-on-a-phone.

It really sounds pretty neat.

Oh, sorry, I thought they were doing the opposite (upsampling to 41 MP from 5MP effective).

To be fair, that's what every webcam on the market does. (Logitech advertises 5 MP photos from a 1280x720 sensor on the C310. They're more than doubling the resolution in software.)

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