Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras

Nokia’s always coming up with some new harebrained scheme for cramming a gargantuan camera lens into one of its new phones — trust us, if the Finnish phone giant could accomplish this task by breaking into Fort Knox or compromising your precious bodily fluids, it would. The latest effort by Nokia comes in the form of a patent that might point the way to an upcoming video phone, possibly the N85, which could give current compact shooters a run for their money. Current thinking on that device is that it’ll be a video-oriented successor to the N96, with a WQVGA screen and a 5 (or maybe even megapixel camera. It’s mostly conjecture at this point, but we hope Nokia accomplishes it with a thinner device than we’re looking at in this patent.

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