Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
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Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
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#2As someone who takes a lot of photos with my phone, this interests me a lot. Though as someone who has previously used Windows Phone, I'm very skeptical about going back to it.
This is the first device that makes me wonder about Nokia's WP-exclusive decision. They didn't go with Android to avoid becoming "yet another" Android manufacturer, and I agree with that sentiment (look at how few are turning a profit). However, there are no Android devices that really excel at stuff like photography- I think that Nokia could have carved out an interesting niche in solidly built, feature-focused devices.
But oh well.
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#3So, two years later Windows Phone has finally caught up with Symbian!
Is it because WP couldn't handle the camera - or were Microsoft actively crippling Nokia's technical advantages over the other OEMs?
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#4Even with this kind of device, it is still very doubtful if Nokia is going to get any kind of success with Windows Phone. Their market share drop has been nothing short of catastrophic everywhere but in the US, where they never had significant market share. Even their feature phones have stopped selling as well as they used to. It will be interesting to see if they can get back on track with current strategy or with any strategy at all.
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#5Maybe this would've had a chance with Android, but with WP8? It's a niche offering within a niche OS market. It's like offering Battlefield 4 for Linux only.
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#6The whitepaper on an older version of the technology is here.
http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf
The Xenon flash eliminates the blur in standard flash. Comparison pictures against the S4 and iPhone 5.
http://i.imgur.com/fUe8rLC.png
The optical image stabilization is cool, with ball bearings replacing the coils on the Lumia 920. Sample video comparison against the S4(Edit: S3, my bad).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuLlAa4zDbU&t=0m55s
More details here.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/11/nokia-lumia-1020-t...
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#7My first impression is, does more mpegapixel instantly make the Nokia Lumia 1020 a better phone? If you truly want to take good photos, use a real camera, like a DSLR. Admittedly, 41-megapixel is quite a wow factor, but based on the hardware specs it seems it's more of a camera than a phone. The other questions is, do people want to every photo to be 20MB+?
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#8Maybe this would've had a chance with Android, but with WP8? It's a niche offering within a niche OS market. It's like offering Battlefield 4 for Linux only .
If everyone had an attitude like that, no one would ever take a risk to fight the incumbents in any of the markets.
Offering Battlefield 4 for only Linux would do wonders for Linux adoption. Linux on the desktop needs something like that to push it.
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#9My first impression is, does more mpegapixel instantly make the Nokia Lumia 1020 a better phone? If you truly want to take good photos, use a real camera, like a DSLR. Admittedly, 41-megapixel is quite a wow factor, but based on the hardware specs it seems it's more of a camera than a phone. The other questions is, do people want to every photo to be 20MB+?
The article does a really bad job of explaining what's going on here- the resulting photos won't be 41megapixels. It uses that huge amount as a means to "smooth out" the noise/oddities in the photo, and save it as a more reasonable 5MP or 8MP image.
Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
#10So, two years later Windows Phone has finally caught up with Symbian! Is it because WP couldn't handle the camera - or were Microsoft actively crippling Nokia's technical advantages over the other OEMs?
No. If you engaged two neurons you will realise it took as long to turn the assembly from the giant jut out hump to the slight rise it is on the lumia.