Nokia confirms Lumia EOS will have a 41-megapixel camera

Nokia recently issued a teaser ahead of its July 11th press conference that confirms some important details about the upcoming “Lumia EOS” smartphone. In a post titled, “41 million reasons to zoom in to Nokia Conversations on July 11th,” Nokia posted the image above on its blog on Wednesday evening. The image and post title clearly refer to the upcoming phone’s 41-megapixel PureView camera, and Nokia also suggests that the device will support optical zoom. Nokia’s new camera phone is expected to launch in the coming months and it will go head to head with Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom, which features a 16-megapixel camera with 10x optical zoom and image stabilization.

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