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Nokia Lumia 1020 was officially unveiled just last week and understandably caused quite a lot of excitement. Its the long awaited 41MP PureView Windows Phone-powered smartphone that had been in the rumorlands since Nokia 808 PureView came around.


Nokia Lumia 1020 will hit the USA on July 26 exclusively via AT&T. It will cost $300 with a two-year contract and the carriers pre-order campaign is going live tomorrow. Lumia 1020 will hit the shelves worldwide before the end of September.

Meanwhile, the retailer Negri Electronics is taking pre-orders for the unlocked version of the cameraphone. You can book your unit for $735.50, but there is no specific shipping date. We guess youll receive it shortly after the official premiere on AT&T.

Yesterday, we also saw the Lumia 1020 go on pre-orders in Germany, but users there will have to wait longer to get their units. The European version of the device that is supposed to launch by the end of Q3.

Europeans will also need to pay quite a lot more to own the Lumia 1020, with pre-orders going for the hefty €800 (we suspect final price will be a bit lower, though).

Nokia has officially launched the Nokia Lumia 1020 at its dedicated “41 millions reasons” event in New York.


After the specs leaked earlier today, Nokia has officially unveiled its latest 41-megapixel camera smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1020.

“Pictures will mean more to you. You’ll see things with the device that you’ve never seen before. You’ll get closer than you’ve ever been before,” said Nokia at the event. “It’s the next chapter in smartphone photography.”

Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Features

Nokia claims that its new “sensor innovation and technology we call oversampling” means the Nokia Lumia 1020 will produce the best photos ever produced by a smartphone. The oversampling is also translated into video recording.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 features an all new backside illuminated 41-megapixel sensor that Nokia says will enable users to take better pictures in daylight but also in low-light and night time conditions.

As introduced in the Nokia Lumia 920, the Nokia Lumia 1020 will also have optical image stabilisation. It’ll have 2nd generation OIS that combats any blur or shake in photographs and videos.

Nokia also says it has “reinvented zoom”, in that oversampling allows users to zoom into details on their pictures even after they’ve been taken.

The Lumia 1020 also has 6 lenses within its Carl Zweiss technology to increase the sharpness and the zooming capabilities.

Users can also take a photo and then later go back and edit or frame their images to tell “a different story”. The Finnish smartphone manufacturer says it is its “shoot first, zoom later” focus for the Lumia 1020.

It also has manual exposure settings on it too.

Nokia Pro Camera, an all-new camera app for the Lumia 1020, means Nokia has made it easy for users to make the most of its new 41-megapixel camera technology. It offers photo editing software directly from the Windows Phone 8 smartphone.

It’ll come in yellow, black and white when it launches, all made from special material that means the colours won’t fade with time or use.

Specs-wise, the Nokia Lumia runs Windows Phone 8 on a 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with a 1280 x 768p resolution, protected by Gorilla Glass 3. It has a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory and 7GB SkyDrive cloud storage.

Powered by a 2000mAh battery, users can opt to purchase the snap-on Nokia Camera Grip that offers access to camera features and a screw mount for tripods. It also increases the battery by an additional 1,200mAh.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 is coming to the US first as an AT&T exclusive for $299.99 on a two-year contract on July 26. It will arrive in the UK sometime this quarter for an unknown price.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 alone isn’t enough to revive the Nokia brand, suggests one analyst.


Daniel Gleeson, a mobile analyst at IHS Electronics and Media, suggests that the newly launched Nokia Lumia 1020 won’t be able to change Nokia’s fortunes on its own. It will have to be backed by a strong new range of smartphones later in the year.

“The Lumia 1020 will act as a halo product to boost Nokia’s brand appeal”, said Gleeson. “IHS forecasts that this smartphone will not ship sufficient volumes to turn around the company’s fortune on its own.”

In fact, IHS predicts that Nokia’s market share for 2013 will fall unless Nokia has more smartphone products up its sleeves.

“Nokia’s share of the smartphone market will fall to 3 per cent in 2013, down from 5 per cent in 2012 unless Nokia follows this halo hardware launch with a strong new smartphone portfolio across all price points in the autumn. Additionally Nokia must continue to invest in content and services to bolster the range of Windows Phone app choice and quality.”

However, the analysts do believe that the Nokia Lumia 1020’s camera features will be easier to translate to consumers than the UltraPixel technology in the HTC One.

“The 1020’s vast megapixel count is a significant marketing asset because consumers have been well trained that more pixels are better in digital photography. This message is far clearer and simpler than HTC’s ‘UltraPixel’ proposition.

Part of a recent explosion of camera-centric smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 1020 will most likely be compared to the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.

“41-megapixels outguns even Samsung’s camera-smartphone hybrids in pixel count by more than two to one, although Samsung will correctly point to its stronger but bulkier optics as an advantage.”

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom packs a 16-megapixel rear snapper with a 10x optical zoom.

Nokia has launched the Lumia Black update for Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices.

New images of the Nokia Android UI have leaked online, with some suggesting they contain a launch date clue.

Specs for the Nokia Lumia 1820 and Nokia Lumia 1525 have leaked online ahead of an official MWC unveiling.

Ahead of a widely expected MWC 2014 unveiling, the heavily rumoured Nokia X Android phone has been caught on camera yet again.


Tipped to mark Nokia’s first foray into the Android smartphone scene – shortly before the company is taken over by Microsoft – the Nokia X has been the subject of multiple leaks and rumours in recent weeks, with another promotional image of the handset now making a premature appearance.

Once again surfacing courtesy of the serial, Twitter-based tipster @evleaks, the latest Nokia X picture has showcased the green bodied entry-level handset from a number of angles.

With a slightly squat, boxy design, the Nokia X handset looks set to feature a form factor markedly similar to the existing Nokia Asha 503, a budget handset for emerging markets.

Although the latest Nokia X picture leak has failed to offer any new, concrete details on the phone, recent rumours have suggested the handset will be a true entry-level offering, with a compact 4-inch display paired with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 512MB of RAM.

With the handset’s display mooted to support a basic 800 x 480p resolution, further Nokia X specs tipped to feature include a 5-megapixel rear-mounted camera, 4GB of internal memory and the now massive outdated Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS.

The Nokia X is widely expected to be unveiled as the Finnish manufacturer’s first Android-powered handset during next Monday’s February 24 MWC 2014 press conference. The phone is believed to be heading for launch in a range of colours including red and green.

The Nokia Lumia 925 is the slimmer, prettier version of the Lumia 920. It has a great camera, Windows Phone 8 and is dead easy to use. There are some tweaks needed to get the best out of it, though. Here are our top Nokia Lumia 925 tips and tricks.

Hardware

What are the three pips for?

On the back of the Lumia 925 are three mysterious little metal circles, like a little crop circle incident just above the speaker grille. These are the contacts that make wireless charging possible.

Nokia removed integrated wireless charging from the phone to make it slimmer and lighter, so now you have to buy a separate £25 case to get it working. These cases interface with these little metal dots in order to charge the battery.

How to get wireless charging

As well as one of the wireless charging cases, to get the phone’s battery charging wires-free you need to buy a Qi charging plate. You don’t need an official Nokia charging pad, just one that uses the Qi standard. Search hard enough online and you’ll find Qi charging plates for £20-30.

Screen

Touchscreen sensitivity

One of the great features across a number of Lumia handsets, including the 925, is there enhanced touchscreen sensitivity. From within the Display+Touch section of the Settings menu you can choose to toggle the screen between normal and high sensitivity modes; the key difference being that setting the 925 into high sensitivity allows you the ability to operate the touchscreen through gloves.

What’s more, there’s the option to double tap the screen to wake, which is a nice alternative tapping the power/lock key.

How to change colour saturation and temperature 

The Nokia Lumia 925 uses a PenTile AMOLED screen. This uses a large red sub-pixel, which tends to give images a slightly warm hue. AMOLEDs also tend to oversaturate colours.


Both of these effects are visible in the Lumia 925, but you can fix them. Go to Settings>Display-plus-touch and tap the adjust button down at the bottom of the screen. This will take you to a menu that lets you fiddle with the colour saturation and colour temperature of the screen.

Software

Accessing the Siri-like voice assistant

Windows Phone 8 has a voice assistant, much like the Siri feature of iOS. To access it, just hold a finger down on the Windows soft key (the one in the middle). The voice command menu should pop up, and the phone will start listening out for commands automatically.

Identifying tunes without an app 

Windows Phone 8 also has a built-in Shazam-like feature, which identifies tunes simply by listening to them. To access this, hold a finger down on the Search soft key (that’s the right one) until the Bing search bar pops up. Then tap the quaver button at the bottom of the screen.

The Lumia 925 will immediately start listening for music. However, music identification will only work if you have an internet connection – it needs to send the snippet to a server for identification.

Scanning barcodes and QR codes, OCR

Right next to the quaver icon of the Lumia 925’s music identification feature is one of Windows Phone 8’s coolest little extras, accessed by pressing the ‘eye’ icon in the Bing search bar menu.

It’s a camera-based feature that reads barcodes, scans QR codes and identifies text using OCR – optical character recognition. Most usefully it’ll event translate identified words between languages.

Data Sense

Since the arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android users have been able to keep tabs of their mobile data usage and even had the option to limit mobile data to prevent accidental costly downloads. Now, thanks to Nokia and the 925’s new Data Sense app, Windows Phone users have that same level of control.

Out-the-box Data Sense offers you a graph view of data usage over both mobile and WiFi networks independently. You can swipe to the side to see a breakdown of apps and services using data in a more detail capacity and if you want you can even set a data limit.

The ‘Set Data Limit’ menu lets you choose from different plan structures like pre-paid or pay monthly and from there define when your limit resets and how much your data limit is. From here you can choose to simply receive a warning, or have your 925 limit data use when it’s approaching the limit.

How to turn off Glance  

Glance mode is a new Nokia feature that displays a clock on the screen when the Lumia 925 is put into standby – rather than showing nothing at all. It uses a little bit of battery life, though, and some of you simply won’t like it.

You can turn Glance off by heading to Settings, scrolling down to and selecting Display Touch, then flicking right-to-left until you get to the Glance menu. The top option here lets you either turn it off, keep it on permanently, or have it switch off after 15 minutes. There’s also a night mode that makes the clock red instead of white, which isnt so bright and so is less distracting at night.

How to download maps in HERE Maps

One of the best software features of the Lumia 925 is HERE Maps. This is the phone’s equivalent to Google Maps.

And it’s arguably even better because you can download maps of entire countries for use when offline – all for free. Tap the menu button within HERE Maps (it’s the three-pip icon at the bottom-right of the screen) and tap ‘download maps’. Follow the instructions and you’ll be able to download areas and countries across the globe.

How to change the colour of Live Tiles

As it uses a colour-rich AMOLED screen, it’s a good idea to be careful about which colour of Live Tile you use for the phone’s home screen. To pick your shade, go to Settings and tap the ‘theme’ entry near the top.

Windows Phone 8 offers 20 different shades. We find that the more muted shades of the bottom two rows of colours work best with the Lumia 925.

How to increase battery life

There are a few simple ways to get better battery life out of the Lumia 925. The simplest is to use a black background rather than a white one for the phone’s home screen. You’ll find this option in Settings > Theme. Super AMOLED screens use less battery when much of the screen is dark/black.

Next comes Battery Saver. This mode is found in the Settings menu. It stops apps from having access to mobile internet, and stops them from running in the background – dramatically reducing how much 3G drains the phone’s battery. In the Advanced menu at the bottom of the Battery Saver menu, you can choose whether it’s on all the time or just when the battery level is low.

Photo tips

For the best photos, don’t use Nokia Smart Cam

Software-wise, the big whoop about the Lumia 925’s camera is Nokia Smart Cam. This is a Windows Phone 8 Lens that adds a bunch of semi-advanced features to the camera roster. However, in pure quality terms its shots are worse than the standard camera apps photos.

Nokia Smart Cam shoots a bunch of shots in rapid succession over a couple of seconds. This stops the phone from using the longer exposure times that are a big part of the PureView plan in the Lumia 925, and it also captures photos in less-than-max resolution. The Lumia 925 has an 8.7-megapixel camera, but Nokia Smart Cam’s snaps are only five megapixels a piece.

Do not use the flash

One of the best things about the Lumia 925’s PureView camera is that it stops you from having to use the flash much. We recommend not using the flash in conditions with anything but very poor lighting. LED flashes like the Lumia 925’s unbalance photos, and don’t offer particularly even coverage. The flash control button is the little lightning symbol in the camera app.

Using Nokia Smart Cam

Nokia Smart Cam can be a little confusing at first. It’s a burst shot mode that lets you apply smart effects to your photos – you can create a multi-exposure action shot, remote moving objects from a scene or use multi-exposure to get the best expressions of people from all the shots on offer.

To access these modes, you need to go to the Photos app, then tap the ‘Nokia Smart Cam’ link that’ll pop up with any shots taken using the app. The modes arent actually accessed from within the camera app itself.

PhotoBeamer

PhotoBeamer is a new app that comes preinstalled on the phone that lets you share photos with any phone irrespective of OS.

On opening the app you need to choose a photo you want to share and once you’ve chosen said photo the app will then launch the camera. From the receipt’s phone, heading to photobeamer.com will bring up a QR-code on-screen.

Scanning the QR-code from the 925 will then cause the chosen image to appear on both devices and you’ll even be able to resize the image in real-time, from one device to the other.

The Nokia Android “Normandy” phone is rumoured to be called the Nokia X at launch.