Nokia Lumia 1020 will come in 41MP and Brings to Three Colors

The launch of the Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, so far known as Nokia EOS will be in two days. Until all the details about the PureView 808 camera phone follow up are officially unveiled, new information about the Windows Phone 8 smartphone are surfacing, confirming what we already knew and bringing a series of interesting novelties.

Alongside the leaked press image, some fresh details about the handset's specs emerged, including its much talked about camera unit. The latter promises to be a smartphone photographer's dream when the handset goes official.

Reportedly, the 41MP camera unit of the Nokia Lumia 1020 will be capable of simultaneously capturing 32MP and 5MP images with 16:9 ratio, as well as a 38MP ones with 4:3 aspect. The 5MP image will be oversampled by combining seven pixels into one "super pixel." The camera will unsurprisingly feature optical image stabilization (OIS) and F2.2 aperture.

The Pro Camera app which left us wondering last time will bring proper enthusiast settings to the user. They include the option to manually tweak ISO, white balance, focus, shutter speed, and the flash settings.

Further leaked specs for the Nokia Lumia 1020 included never before seen on WP handset 2GB of RAM, 32GB of non-expandable storage, NFC, FM radio, flip to silence gesture, and optional wireless charging.

Nokia Lumia 1020 is allegedly expected to hit AT&T's shelves by the end of this month. No details have been spilled on international availability.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 will break cover this coming Thursday in New York City. We will be covering the event live from the spot, so be sure to tune in for the full scoop on the smartphone

Unless the Nokia Lumia 1020 will have a chip for the camera, the Snapdragon 800 chipset is currently the only one to support that high of pixel count. Which processor will Nokia use for the Lumia 1020?

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Nokia Lumia 925 Officially Announced, Details Here !

Recently, we learned Nokia would be going all-out aluminum with the casing of its latest flagship, and judging by the press images, this is easily the most aesthetically pleasing device Nokia has managed to churn out thus far. Offering the same kinds of materials that give the iPhone 5 and HTC One their beauty was never going to be a bad move, and it has to also be noted that the Lumia 925 is also a great deal slimmer than the rather chunky Lumia 920.

Thanks in part to the limitations of Windows Phone, Nokia is quite some distance behind the major Android and iOS vendors in terms of market share and reach, and in an attempt to bridge some of the gaping gap between its fleet of smartphones and those of the Big Two, the Finnish company has today announced the Lumia 925 - which was teased yesterday in a rather mesmerizing video - at its planned London event. All of the details, as ever, are coming up right after the break!

Following the launch of the Lumia 820 and 920 late last year, Nokia went on to lose a five percent market share in the first quarter of this year according to numbers firm Gartner, but if this device is anything to go by, Nokia is certainly not ready to give up hope just yet.

First and foremost it, of course, runs on Windows Phone 8, and with the “brightest” display Nokia has produced spanning a 4.5-inch diameter, with a screen resolution of 1280 x 768, there’s plenty of real estate there for you to sink your fingertips into. That’s 334 ppi! And oh, it’s AMOLED, in case you’re wondering.

The aluminum chassis is easily the marquee feature here though, and with the device measuring in with an 8.5mm depth and weighing a svelte 139g, it should feel really nice to hold.

Of the camera, it will be another 8.7-megapixel affair, and as you’d expect, it’s of the PureView variety, and although one might presume Nokia to have simply recycled the 920′s (very, very good) camera, the company claims that this new device offers the smartphone world’s most advanced lens technology. With features like Smartcam, which takes up to 10 images in quick succession, it will automatically source the best shot. The lens comes from Carl Zeiss, as you’d expect and is accompanied with a dual LED flash, hence you can rest assured that your images will look bright and stunning even at night. With the capability to shoot 1080p videos at 30 frames per second, it’s safe to bet on the fact that the Lumia 925 is more of a camera phone than a smartphone, if you can’t manage to look past the camera features, that is.

As was the case with the Lumia 920, there’s also wireless charging thrown into the bag, and with a tidy Snapdragon S4 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, it easily slots in among the high-end smartphones in the market. And yes, it has wireless charging as well.

The Lumia 925 will hit the shelves in UK during the first week of June, and will slowly make its way to other markets including Germany, Italy, Spain, China and of course, the US.

Priced at just 469 Euros, it doesn’t really come cheap, but if you look at it’s photography and video prowess, then it might just be a bang on the buck!

Let's check the video here:

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How to See Windows Phone Version Installed on your Phone

Some of us my be a beginner of Windows Phone, or they just curious to use such a new Operating System on the mobile phone. So for those who want to know which kind of WP OS version on the phone here is the steps.

To see which Windows Phone operating system (OS) version is installed on your phone, do the following:

1. On Start, flick left to the App list.
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3. Tap Settings  > About > More info.

The Software section indicates the general product name we use to describe the release (for example, "Windows Phone 7.5"). The OS version section indicates the specific build number of the release (for example, "7.10.8773.98").

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Intel outs Android 4.2.2 alpha dev code dual-boot with Windows 8

What we expect for may be come true. To have such mobile phone with dual boot option. Intel is on a mission to prove that it isn’t too late to catch up to other chipset manufacturers yet in the ever-growing world of Android. And its latest move involves releasing Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean developer code that has been optimized for Intel hardware.

Although Intel has been a bit slow with the updates, at least they have been coming out more consistently over the past year. The developers at its own Open Source Technology Center have no doubt been hard at work over the last six months, which is why the world can now enjoy access to Intel-optimized Android 4.2.2 alpha dev code.

So what exactly does this new release code bring to the table, anyway? For starters, it now offers UEFI boot support, as well as support for dual-booting with Microsoft’s Windows 8. It is also powered by the Linux 3.8 kernel now and includes an interactive installer which should make it easier to work with.

Intel warns all those who intend on downloading and using this new release about bugs and general pre-alpha quality issues. So while this is mostly good news, you should know that if you hit the source code below, you are doing it at your own risk.

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