Nokia and Carl Zeiss have had an agreement to make new camera phones with exclusive Carl Zeiss lenses for several years. Nokia hopes that it will help them to compete more effectively against other smart phones, including Samsung and Apple phones which have been grabbing a huge market share.

Nokia said, the first model using its new Pure-View camera technology will go on sale later this month. Its uses a Carl Zeiss sensor with 41MP, more than those in advanced cameras used by professional photographers.

Head of Smart Devices at Nokia, Jo Harlow said in his statement, "We're going to carry on developing Pure-View for our future smart-phones:.