Nokia to take on Samsung S4 zoom with 41 MP Lumia camera phone?

The battle of the megapixels is back - but this time the battle ground has moved from the simple digital camera, to the camera-enabled smartphone.

Mere days after Samsung launches its Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom device, Nokia sent out a press invitation for a 11 July event which simply read, “Zoom reinvented”. The company has refused to give out more information than that, but speculation is rife that the expected device is a camera phone with a ridiculously powerful camera.

[caption id=“attachment_872295” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screenshot of the invitation[/caption]

Technology blogs and websites have recently published pictures online of a Windows device called the Nokia EOS - a new phone featuring a 41-megapixel photographic sensor.

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According to Engadget, “It turns out that a lot of invites have been sent out to international media, not to mention high-level Nokia employees are teasing the EOS on Twitter, lending credence to the rumors that next month’s event will likely feature a Lumia device with much greater imaging capabilities than anything else in Nokia’s Windows Phone lineup.”

You can watch a video of what is rumoured to be the device, which was pushed out on YouTube by Vizileaks:

Nokia has launched a succession of new phones in various price segments over the past month after first-quarter results showed a surprisingly steep drop in lower-end handset sales.

The competition to Nokia’s rumoured device is the Samsung S4 Zoom, which has a 16 Megapixel rear camera with CMOS Sensor, 10x Optical Zoom, OIS and Xenon Flash. It pretty much looks like a regular digital camera from the back and the phone is big, heavy and almost double the thickness of the original Galaxy S4.