Nokia has finally announced the new Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, the company’s first 41 megapixel PureView smartphone running on Windows Phone 8.
The Lumia 1020 ‘s stunningly enormous image resolution is this smartphone’s single killer feature and sole reason for being. Yep, the 1020 puts the mega back in megapixels.Here, Nokia pairs an ultra large camera sensor with the company’s PureView image-processing software, finally bringing us the smartphone we hoped the Lumia 920 and its many variants would be.
Nokia Lumia 1020 Full specification:
| GENERAL | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – all versions |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-875, RM-877 | |
| HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-876 | ||
| 4G Network | LTE 800 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 – RM-875 | |
| LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-877 | ||
| SIM | Micro-SIM | |
| Announced | 2013, July | |
| Status | Coming soon. Exp. release 2013, July 26th |
| BODY | Dimensions | 130.4 x 71.4 x 10.4 mm, 96.9 cc (5.13 x 2.81 x 0.41 in) |
| Weight | 158 g (5.57 oz) |
| DISPLAY | Type | AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 768 x 1280 pixels, 4.5 inches (~332 ppi pixel density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes | |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 | |
| – PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display |
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
| Loudspeaker | Yes | |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| – Dolby Digital Plus – Dolby headphone enhancement |
| MEMORY | Card slot | No |
| Internal | 32 GB, 2 GB RAM |
| DATA | GPRS | Yes |
| EDGE | Up to 236.8 kbps | |
| Speed | HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v3.0 with A2DP | |
| NFC | Yes | |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go |
| CAMERA | Primary | 41 MP (38 MP effective, 7152 x 5368 pixels), Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, autofocus, Xenon & LED flash |
| Features | 1/1.5” sensor size, 1.12 µm pixel size, PureView technology, geo-tagging, face detection, dual capture, panorama | |
| Video | Yes, 1080p@30fps, 4x lossless digital zoom, video light | |
| Secondary | Yes, 1.2 MP, 720p@30fps |
| FEATURES | OS | Microsoft Windows Phone 8 |
| Chipset | Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon | |
| CPU | Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait | |
| GPU | Adreno 225 | |
| Sensors | Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer | |
| Messaging | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS | |
| Java | No | |
| Colors | Yellow, white, black | |
| – SNS integration – Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic – MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player – MP4/DivX/XviD/H.264/H.263/WMV player – 7GB free SkyDrive storage – Organizer – Document viewer – Video/photo editor – Voice memo/command/dial – Predictive text input |
| BATTERY | Non-removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery (BV-5XW) | |
| Stand-by | (2G) / Up to 384 h (3G) | |
| Talk time | Up to 19 h (2G) / Up to 13 h 20 min (3G) | |
| Music play | Up to 63 h |
It has high-resolution 3x zoom, autofocus (you can manually focus, too), and a dual-flash system. A smaller LED flash complements the larger Xenon flash — a design seen in Verizon’s Lumia 928 — and the entire shooter captures 1080p HD video at a rate of 30 frames per second.
