Nokia`s Lumia 1020 is a smartphone running Microsofts Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. Nothing fantastic, right? But what about it`s 41-megapixel camera jam-packed with everything you might ever need from the best DSLR point-and-shoot devices?
The Lumia 1020 has a 4.5-inch display with a 1280x768 resolution (334 pixels per inch, similar to the iPhone 5 but well behind the HTC One and Galaxy S4). Its battery is 2000 mAh and has 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage and comes with 7 GB of free cloud storage through Microsoft SkyDrive. But the digital camera, you can use with a "loss less" zoom, motion enhanced pictures, the ability to change apertures and exposure times and an array advanced photo techniques.
It sports a Xenon flash, optical image stabilization, Carl Zeiss optics and six-lens optics (Nokia has actually built six lenses into the camera that float with the optical image stabilizer).
The camera on the Lumia 1020 protrudes significantly from back of the device. The bump does not quite make the phone awkward, but it`s distinctly noticeable.The Lumia 1020s digital zoom works much better than most other smartphones digital varieties. Low light conditions are impressive and photos are rarely blurry.
The bottom line is that the Nokia Lumia 1020 is a superlative camera and a middling smartphone, punctuated by a big question mark hovering over the future of Windows Phone and its app ecosystem. Everyone that has tested it, seems to be very excited about it, so we can only expect the competition to kick in and start to see an array of new, super high-definition camera-smartphones hitting the market very soon indeed!
