Currently offered for around $249 on contract, the Nokia Lumia 1020 has been advertised by that Finnish smartphone manufacturer as the first smartphone to put its camera first. And for many smartphone owners, camera use ranks very high on a short list of most popular mobile handset activities. Nokia has gone all out, and has finally produced a smartphone camera which can actually hold its own against decent and above average stand-alone point-and-shoot digital cameras.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is available for a reduced sale price now starting at .
Closet shutterbugs have definitely got to have the Nokia Lumia 1020 as a possible smartphone option, thanks to the camera package alone. Multiple reviewers and users are claiming this is the finest camera they have ever seen on a smartphone, and it is hard to argue that point. The phone runs on the Windows Phone 8 operating system, and is offered by AT&T in the United States. There are now roughly 165,000 apps for that Windows Phone operating system powering the 1020.
The main draw on this handset is definitely the second generation 41 megapixel sensor on its premiere camera, located on the back of the phone. Optical image stabilization is on board, and a special camera sensor format is employed which is actually a full five times larger than that found on the typical smartphone. A 6 lens Carl Zeiss optics package is present, as well as an LED flash and separate Xenon high-powered flash, and a high resolution 3X optical zoom.
These are features generally reserved for point-and-shoot digital cameras, and the impressive camera on board the Nokia Lumia 1020 records video in 1,080P HD resolution. An extensive special effects and customization package is on board as well, and the second camera in the handset’s camera combo is a front facing chat cam of 1.2 megapixels, also capable of wide angle video and snapshot capture. You can also capture images in either a 16×9 or 4×3 alignment format.
Also, the onboard Nokia Pro Camera app allows you to manually adjust the flash, focus, ISO, shutter speed, white balance and exposure on the handset. Nokia’s Lumia 1020 are also offers a large 4.50 inch HD+ touchscreen, with a resolution of 768 by 1,280 pixels. Pixel density is extremely high, at 334 pixels per inch, and talk time is an excellent 19.1 hours from a single charge. The phone runs on a dual core 1.5 GHz CPU, 2.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board, as is 32 GB of built-in storage and an accompanying 7 GB of free SkyDrive cloud storage space.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at .
