Tuesday 1 October 2013

While the company has not announced the price of the smartphone, but it has revealed the prices of the accessories designed for the Lumia 1020. The Nokia Camera Grip will cost Rs 7,500 and the wireless charging shell will be available for Rs 3,200. The Nokia Lumia 1020 is equipped with a 41-megapixel camera which is said to record more details than other camera phones and even tops point-and-shoot cameras. More pixels mean more sensors for capturing the light that forms an image. It has a 4.5-inch AMOLED WXGA (1280x768) display and includes a 2.5 D sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass 3

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While the company has not announced the price of the smartphone, but it has revealed the prices of the accessories designed for the Lumia 1020. The Nokia Camera Grip will cost Rs 7,500 and the wireless charging shell will be available for Rs 3,200. The Nokia Lumia 1020 is equipped with a 41-megapixel camera which is said to record more details than other camera phones and even tops point-and-shoot cameras. More pixels mean more sensors for capturing the light that forms an image. It has a 4.5-inch AMOLED WXGA (1280x768) display and includes a 2.5 D sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass 3

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/the-41-mp-nokia-lumia-1020-to-be-available-in-india-from-october-11/424688-11.html?utm_source=ref_article
This has to be the biggest feature of the Lumia 1020, let's face it, you can't launch a smartphone with a 41MP Pureview camera with (now Nokia standard) Carl Zeiss lens and Xenon flash, and expect those massive optics to unnoticed.
So how does it work? Each shot generates a 38MP picture for saving and editing, but will also create a 5MP shot for social sharing. The camera combines seven pixels into one, something Nokia calls oversampling.
The 5MP snap is "over sampled," with seven pixels dropping into a single "super pixel." If super pixel makes you think UltraPixel, we're right there with you. The 1020 can also supposedly take an image at 38MP with a ratio of 16:9.
Oversampling also makes its way over to the video recorder, helping to bring the same clarity to the HD recording.
It seems that mobile technology is coming in a circle, with camera's once being a major reason behind the purchase of a feature phone. Smartphones are now ruling the roost, with OEMs looking to hardware to distinguish themselves, especially in the WP8 world.
The HTC One is only our third 5 star phone so it'll be interesting to see exactly how well the 'oversampling' compares in our full Nokia Lumia 1020 review.
To improve your shots in low light, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is also said to carry a Xenon flash on its rear, which produces much better light than the LED flashes which adorn most smartphones today.
Nokia Pro Camera is also on board, giving a much wider range of settings than you'll see on other Windows Phone 8 devices, allowing you to control exposure, manual focus and white balance to really give more oomph to your shots.
Long exposure is there too, giving the opportunity to shoot up to 4 seconds of long exposure shots, giving it the power of much better cameras out there. There's also an improved video microphone, giving a higher dynamic range of sound, helping to reduce distortion as seen in the HTC One and iPhone devices - called Nokia Rich Recording here
The 1020 also houses an F2.2 aperture and the Pro Camera app we've heard about before should feature settings for ISO, white balance, manual focus, shutter speed and flash.
Having mentioned both the Camera and the Battery life so far, we have to add a nod to an interesting accessory that has been announced with the 41MP snapper clearly in mind.
Modern smartphones have yet to prove as grippy, and as such, as easy to use for dedicated photgraphers, so as a look to them, Nokia has launched an accessory that not only gives the Lumia 1020 a camera feel (with shutter button), it also provides a further 1020mAh battery.
There's also a wireless charging cover too, which allows you to... well, you can guess what it does. It's thin and lightweight, but it's irritating that Nokia keeps eschewing it from the main design in order to keep weight down.

The Nokia Lumia 1020, a phone originally touted as the Nokia EOS, followed firmly in the footsteps of just about every major tech release in recent memory. The Lumia 1020 (pronounced 10-20 officially, but you can say what you want when you're alone or with friends) Windows Phone 8 smartphone launched in New York to take over the Pureview mantle from the 808 Pureview of 2012.
Thankfully, we were there, so what does the Finnish firm's newest flagship handset have to offer, and how many of the rumours and leaks were true?
We've also got full details on the Nokia Lumia 1020 release date and price but broadly speaking it will be available over the coming months in the US, China and Europe with more markets coming later in the year. It's a premium flagship product, so expect it to be priced as such.
The new phone ships with a 41MP Pureview camera with Carl Zeiss lens, plus a xenon flash and LED light in a much thinner chassis compared to the original Nokia 808 Pureview.

Flagship handsets are now quad core behemoths aren't they? That has never been the case with Windows handsets, with Microsoft having said on a few occasions that their OS doesn't need anything larger than a dual-core.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 (somewhat disappointingly given some of the rumours) fits right in with this, with Qualcomm's dual-core Snapdragon S4 sitting inside the thin chassis. This may initially put users off, but we have seen that dual-cores can provide a healthy balance between power and battery drain.
Thankfully the lower clocked processor is backed up with a rather healthy 2GB of RAM that will help keep things running along smoothly, and ease the burden on the battery.
We keep mentioning the battery, so what is on offer. Nokia has placed a 2000 mAh battery within the Lumia 1020, again something that seems a little lacking given that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is 30% larger. We will always be a little sceptical, as every user will use their phone differently, and every device uses the battery differently, so don't read too much into the size.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 seems to fall a little behind the other leading flagship devices, as the aforementioned HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4, with only a 4.5-inch WXGA AMOLED screen.
Screen size will always be a hot topic, but the real talking point here is the 768 x 1280 AMOLED technology, which has been boosted with Nokia's PureMotion HD+ technology, to give on screen images that extra boost.

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