The Verge - At 11PM last Friday night, Yankee Stadium exploded.
I had been in section 209 for about two hours when Justin Timberlake started the first verse of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.” The crowd roared, and then when Jay Z walked down the stairs rapping “Empire State of Mind,” the crowd went bonkers. It felt like every person in the stadium screamed, then thrust their hands into their pockets to grab their phone. I have to send this to somebody!
I was way ahead of the game. I’m already slightly obsessive about taking pictures at concerts, but that night I had a real advantage: I was holding the Lumia 1020, Nokia’s new 41-megapixel cameraphone. It’s an LTE-enabled, high-definition Windows Phone 8 device available on AT&T for $299 on contract, but it’s mostly a camera. An insanely high-res camera created to vanquish all smartphones and point-and-shoots in its path.
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.
Gamerhubtv - We take the new Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows smartphone for a test run in this exclusive video review.
