Xiaomi 15 Ultra [2026] vs Nokia PureView 808 [2012] ▀ Which One Captures The Most Detailed Daylight Shots?

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Full-fledged cameraphone benchmarks are aimed on screens > 1280px width.
So almost any desktop or laptop should be fine. Smartphones are not supported, in favor of pixel-peeping convenience.

It’s been a while since i’ve posted entertaining comparisons of modern “cameraphones”,
which try to compete Nokia 808 in resolution field without any luck.
Here is one more at your disposal.

CURRENTLY TEST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW!
IMAGE WIDTH >1600px IS RECOMMENDED!

▒ DIRECT COMPARISON

In the very beginning of the test I underline the fact that
we are comparing only resolution and not the dynamic range.
In this category older FSI sensor is an outsider, for sure.
Today’s rival is [Xiaomi 15 Ultra] with true 1" sensor.
This cameraphone represents the current peak in mobile photography.
As you may already know Nokia PureView 808 comes with 1/1.2" FSI sensor [almost 1"], but based upon non-Quad Bayer sensor.
Now let’s see how Nokia will hold up against Xiaomi.

THE METHODOLOGY:
* no post-processing
* images were resized to 3000px in width
* and then cropped at 100% zoom

Glitchy modern browsers can easily alter image quality during page rendering or badly construe scaling factors,
so i suggest to download original images from my cloud storage and pixel peep them at 100% manually.

ON THE LEFT SIDE IS NOKIA PUREVIEW 808
ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS XIAOMI 15 ULTRA
PULL ► GREEN HANDLE ◄ TO SLIDE THE COMPARISON

ANGLE OF PICTURES AND FOCUS POINTS DIFFER A BIT DUE TO DIFFERENT FOCAL DISTANCES OF
THE DEVICES AND LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO A TEST.
IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING AND IT WILL GIVE US SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

DETAIL TEST