Engadget - As expected, the Nokia Lumia 1020 arrived with 41 megapixels in tow at today's event in New York City. Got questions? Yeah, us too. Thankfully, we had a bit of time to sit down with none other than Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who was fresh off the on-stage Q&A, wearing a slick pair of bright yellow Converse All-Stars, in honor of the eye-popping color scheme of the handset he showed off earlier today. Elop seemed genuinely excited by his new device (even jokingly correcting me when I called it his "new toy"), taking a picture of us immediately after entering the room -- or, rather, he took a picture of our own Richard Lai and zoomed out to reveal me. The concept of re-framing is a huge part of what Nokia's selling -- take a picture first and worry about framing it later. With 41 megapixels, it's easy enough to zoom in or out after the fact.
Maximum PC: For the second time in five years, Stephen Elop is leaving Microsoft. Elop last resigned from Microsoft in September of 2010 to take charge of Nokia, replacing Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo as the company's CEO. That position came with a $6 million signing bonus and $1.4 million annual salary.
Few weeks ago, several Nokia Lumia 925 and Nokia Lumia 1020 users started to report a bug in their handsets that would freeze their device while trying to wake it up from sleep mode. The issue started only after the said devices were updated to Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft has now acknowledged this issue, and promises to provide a fix soon.
One year ago, Nokia launched a smartphone that has pushed smartphone photography into a new realm. Armed with its 41 Megapixel state of the art camera, Xenon Flash, Nokia’s Pro camera manipulation software, and its second generation optical image stabilization, Lumia 1020 has changed the way consumers look at smartphone cameras. In fact, it is still the best all-around smartphone camera, despite being outclassed by newer generation devices in screen resolution and processing power.
