Also known as the Nokia EOS, the brilliant Matte Yellow Nokia Lumia 1020 hit the AT&T wireless network in the United States in July this year. Offering a large high-resolution touchscreen, extremely high pixel density and ample RAM memory, the Lumia 1020 smartphone costs about $249 on contract currently. The phone is also offered in white and black, and is definitely known for delivering what many analysts and industry experts are calling the most capable camera ever found on a smartphone.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is available for a reduced sale price now starting at .
The Lumia 1020 delivers the PureView Phase 1 and Phase 2 mobile camera technologies of Nokia for the first time. The large 41 megapixel sensor on the premier camera is graced with optical image stabilization and a 3X lossless zoom. A six element Carl Zeiss optics systems is on board, and Nokia has added its pixel binning technology which substantially upgrades picture and video quality. The camera experience rivals mid-level point-and-shoot digital cameras, and the phone’s sound recording abilities are as high-end as the camera experience.
On board the Lumia 1020 Windows phone, Nokia has included special High Amplitude Audio Capture (HAAC) microphones which record audio free of distortion and noise. This allows for high fidelity stereo recording, and the whole 1020 package is ensconced in a protective polycarbonate body. The large 4.5 inch AMOLED display delivers a resolution of 768 by 1,280 pixels, offered at 334 pixels per inch. A full 16 million colors can be found on that display, which is protected by a third-generation a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass.
The Lumia 1020 phone delivers a more than generous 19.1 hours of talk time after a full charge, and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 system chip. While no microSD slot is on board, a generous 32 GB storage are built-in, and AT&T includes 7 GB of free SkyDrive cloud storage. A dual core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU is present in the hardware package, as is 2.0 GB of RAM memory and an Adreno 225 graphics processor. The secondary camera is a 1.2 megapixel chat cam located on the front of the phone, capable of 720P video capture.
Returning to the outstanding camera on the back of the handset, we find both Xenon & LED flashes, auto and manual focus, dual camera capture and a wide angle panorama mode for both the front and back cameras. A video light has been added for nighttime video capture, and an extensive special effects and customization package is on board. That rear facing camera can record video in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels (1,080p HD resolution) and at the rate of 30 frames per second, and Nokia has included Dolby Digital Plus sound, an FM Stereo radio and Dolby headphone enhancement in the Lumia 1020 as well.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at .
