While average smartphones today deal with loads of specifications, including cameras of around 6-8 megapixels, Nokia has decided to hit the market hard with an outrageous smartphone – one that boasts of a 41-megapixels sensor. Yes, you read correctly! At this year’s Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Nokia unveiled a super camera phone named Pureview 808.

Nokia managed to create this ultra-competitive camera phone by combining the Carl Zeiss optics lens with the pixel over-sampling technology developed by Nokia, entitled the PureView. Of course, once the technology is released in the market, get ready to see more and more phones with remarkable number of megapixels in their cameras in the following months or years.

However, apart from this shocking Carl Zeiss lens and the camera with a lot of megapixels on board, the latest 808 device from Nokia is far from being impressive. In fact, it lacks other rocking features, which makes it a mediocre smartphone, albeit with a good camera system.

Why? Because the device uses the Symbian operating system, which is thought to be the last one before Nokia finally started its partnership with Microsoft, developing Windows phones.

Moreover, the new 808 PureView smartphone consists of a single core 1.3 GHz CPU, a 4 inch screen with 360 x 640 pixels and a memory of only 512 MB, with the possibility of expanding it up 16 GB of storage.

The device also is quite expensive for a phone that, apart from the camera doesn’t do too much – the retail value will be 450 euro, when it hits the shelves in May 2012.