Engadget and multiple other sources tell us that there are no plans to release the Nokia 808 PureView in North America. Obviously this doesn’t mean that it will be impossible to get hold of, it just means you’ll probably have to import it. This means that only those with money to buy this smartphone outright will have the chance to get their hands on the 808 PureView as no US carriers will be offering it at a cheaper price as part of a two or three year agreement. Back in August last year we told you that Nokia planned to scrap Symbian smartphone launches in North America, however we must say that we thought that Nokia may have made an exception for this particular device.

There are mixed opinions about the Nokia 808 PureView at present, yes the camera is ground-breaking and could put serious pressure on the compact digital camera market, but many are put off by the software which it runs on (Symbian Belle). We want to see PureView-like technology come to Nokia’s future Windows Phone 7 smartphones instead – we don’t need 41 megapixel quality, but anything greater than the Lumia 800′s 8 megapixel camera would be a huge step in the right direction.

If you head over to Cnet you can get up close and personal with the Nokia 808 PureView, however this will probably rub salt into the wounds of any North American reading this who was hoping to get this smartphone from their preferred carrier.

Will you import the Nokia 808 PureView? Or does the potential price tag worry you? Also what’s your view on it running Symbian Belle?

Nokia has revealed its new flagship Symbian smartphone that comes with a 41-meagapixel camera, and no that is not a typo. The company has achieved this by combining Carl Zeiss optics with new technology that Nokia has developed that over samples pixels. According to an article on Mashable the PureView technology will be coming to other Nokia handsets in the future.

Of course the higher the pixel count doesn’t always mean the best quality images, so the device will have to be seen in action in the wild to establish the cameras quality. The new smartphone also has a new feature called Rich Recording, which will allow owners to record quality audio up to 140 decibels according to Nokia.

Other features of the device aren’t exactly going to set the world on fire, as it uses a 1.3 GHz single-core processor. The screen is a 4-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen that will have Corning Gorilla Glass, and the 808 PureView comes packing only 512 MB of RAM with 16 GB of onboard storage, which is expandable up to 48GB via microSD. It will also feature Dolby Headphone technology along with Dolby Digital Plus for 5.1 surround playback.

NFC connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, 1400mAh battery, and a 3.5mm headphone jack rounds up most of the features of the device, which measures 123.9 x 60.2 x 13.9mm that goes up to 17.95mm at the camera and weighs in at 169 grams.

The Nokia 808 PureView has been promised to be hitting the Euro Zone in May priced at around 450 Euros. Update: Below you can see an image of the camera sensor unit for the 808 PureView that Nokia has shared on Twitter, but it shows any device using this tech will not allow for a thin handset.