When the first official announcement hit the press couple of months ago, regarding a Nokia phone with an incredible 41-megapixels camera, everyone was shocked and excited. However, the excitement did not last long, as Nokia unveiled the 808 PureView smartphone, using its almost defunct Symbian operating system.

In terms of camera, the phone lived up to its hype by packing Carl Zeiss optics paired with a sensor that went up to four times the size of that found in cameras of Apple’s iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy S2. The 808 has few other good features however and cannot compare to the latest offerings from Apple, Samsung or HTC in terms of processor, OS, RAM, etc. But when it comes to camera system, almost no smartphone can bring to the table what 808 PureView has to offer - the amazing number of pixels found in its camera.

And now, it appears that 808’s camera sensor will soon be coming to Nokia’s Windows phones. Jo Harlow, Nokia’s executive vice president, told a Finnish newspaper that the PureView smartphone will soon be released with a Windows 7 operating platform. Thus, it will be joining the Lumia family of phones. “I can’t say precisely when, but it will not take very long,” she assured both the media and future customers, as Nokia is building a more and more powerful partnership with Microsoft’s Windows OS. Nokia already has plans of releasing a Windows Phone product in the U.S. market in the form of the sleek and chic Lumia 900 LTE, but the more the merrier, especially when it comes to a device with a whooping 41-megapixels camera.