Nokia bet strong by the photograph in the latest generation of its smart phone, the Lumia 1020, which, according to unveiled today in New York the Finnish company, includes a 41 Megapixel camera that allows you to ‘see things that you’ve never seen before’.
‘With the Lumia 1020 images are going to mean more, you will see things that you haven’t seen before and will transform your way of doing things, modify and share photos forever’, said the CEO of the signature, Stephen Elop, holding the device, which will be available in yellow, black and white.
The new Lumia 1020 incorporates the operating system Windows Phone 8 and has a screen of 4.5 -inch high definition, but the true protagonist of this phone is its camera of 41 megapixels in the rear. This is not the first time that Nokia launches a phone with a camera of this type, since the PureView 808 i already did, but it incorporates your old system, Symbian.
The sensor in the camera of the Lumia 1020 is the largest not only of all smartphones on the market, but any device, Elop stressed during the presentation, which started with a video in which there is a review of the two centuries of the history of photography, with emphasis on the crucial role that it has currently reached.
“Photography is a part of our daily lives, we take photos at all hours and these have become a global language, the whole world has become photographer’, ensured that video before claiming that this new phone case photography in smart phones.
To demonstrate the capacity of the camera, Elop showed the sharp picture of a couple jumping taken with the Lumia 1020. Seconds before had shown two other photographs taken at the same couple jumping, but totally blurry, taken with the Samsung S4 Galaxy and the Apple iPhone 5.
The Finnish company emphasized in the capacity of this new device to take pictures even in dim light and, above all, in the grand scope of its zoom, which demonstrated finding a needle loss among the weeds or showing in detail a taxi in a snapshot taken from a helicopter.
As the pictures of 38 megapixel high resolution and are very heavy, the camera instantly saves a version of 5 megapixels to make it easier to share on social networks.
Glorying in addition to the image stabilization and the possibilities of manually adjusting the exposure or the approach of the photo, Nokia bet as well for the quality of the camera to try to eat part of the market share of the ‘smartphone’, that dominate Samsung and Apple.
The device incorporates a dual-core processor 1.5 GHz, RAM 2 GB, a 32GB storage capacity and will be available in the United States next July 27 for $299.99 with a two-year contract with the carrier AT
