This is not my main phone, I don’t make phone calls or play games with it, I just use it as a camera. I can’t really give you numbers because everyone uses their phone differently. I’ve had the phone for over a year now and I find myself charging it more frequently. The phone has a dual-core 1.5ghz processor, 32gb of mass memory and 4G LTE according to the official specs.īattery life is not great and it seems to get worse over time. I was going to say the Nokia “sucks” as a phone, but that might be unfair! Just so you know that I’m not an Apple fanboy and I don’t hate Nokia, fifteen years ago, in the early days of mass consumer cell phones, Nokia was my choice □ I use my iPhone which is definitely more intuitive to me. There is a definite lag between shots, reminds me a lot of the lag time in old digital point and shoot cameras.ĭon’t ask. This will give you many more sharp shots than just hitting the shutter “button” and because the camera is slow anyway, you’re not really going to lose any more time doing it this way. The best way I have found to get consistently sharp shots with the 1020 is to first tap the screen at your target to achieve focus, then hit the shutter. If you hit the “shutter” icon, it will sometimes miss its target while focusing. You will not be taking any action shots with this camera, even at low resolution. The shot to shot time, the AF, the shutter lag. You can get the full resolution of the camera when using Nokia’s photo transfer app.Īs a camera, it is very slow. Wiki has an excellent page on it and there are other reviews out there that can explain it much better than I can.įor easy file sharing, the 1020 uses an over-sampling technology where the 41 megapixel images are reduced to a 5 megapixel files without loss of quality. Hey listen, I won’t claim to understand all the thingamajigger behind this technology. However, 38mp is close enough to 41mp that you’d not likely notice the missing 3 megapixels □ There may be more to this technically, but that’s how I understand it. Due to slight cropping from the aspect ratios available, some pixels are lost. While the camera does have a 41mp sensor inside for the main camera, the actual highest resolution that the camera churns out is about 38mp. The camera does have a front facing camera as well, but that one only does 1.2 megapixels of resolution. Just on those specs alone, it sounds killer! The Nokia 1020 has a 41 megapixel sensor, a 4.5″ display, and a 26mm f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens and optical stabilization. However, as a photographer and lover of traditional cameras, I was more than a little skeptical. When I first heard about this phone, I was interested in it, as any gadget freak would be. The 1020 aimed to go after the market that the 808 missed. However, it ran on the Symbian operating system which a lot of people don’t know about, and this probably kept a lot of people away. To keep the record straight, the Nokia 808 Pureview was the first Nokia with a 41 megapixel sensor. Yes, 41 megapixels in a cell phone! In 2013, that was more megapixels than almost any consumer camera on the market, point and shoot or DSLR. Its main distinction from the competition was that the phone held a 41 megapixel sensor inside. It has a touch screen and is capable of doing almost anything else a phone from 2013 could do. The Lumia 1020 was introduced in 2013 as a modern day smartphone that runs on Windows 8. It may seem out of place on this site where classic film and digital cameras are profiled but as the first cell phone camera with a headline grabbing 41 megapixels, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is actually a perfect fit here. “Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” Mae West might have said of the yellow Nokia 1020 with all of its 41 megapixel glory □ The Nokia Lumia 1020 cell phone from 2013.
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