Already behind LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson in the Mega Pixel race, Nokia is going to unveil a new 8 Mega Pixel device in two days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Earlier today, Nokia teased us with a photo on the official Nseries site, claiming that it had been taken with a Nokia device at Barcelona.

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The picture seems to be taken from a very high speed device which managed to focus the skater brilliantly even in mid air. The image is a solid 2.7 MB with a 2448 x 3264 resolution. A closer inspection of the image revealed some pretty impressive EXIF data from the meta tags.

Its interesting to note that the equipment maker is indeed Nokia while the device has a 300 DPI Carl Zeiss lens. The shutter speed is quite high, at 1/1000 secs. Whats even more surprising is the fact that the creation software is titled Adobe Photoshop CS3, and the picture is taken on February 17th, 2009 at 9 am.

Now either this device also has the ability to beam back photos in time, or that is the official time for the announcement of the phone. If all this is authentic (Nokia has posted the image of course), then this new device would clearly be aimed for a Q2-Q3 launch, though I doubt it would be a flagship Nseries as the Nokia N97 would take that throne this year.