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August 2013
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The editors liked
The image quality is of a higher order than any other smartphone camera. We shot a fixed subject with an Android
IPhone 5 and the Nokia
Tripod mounted
And the difference in detail resolution
Even comparing the Nokia's scaled down image
Is astonishing
Great camera
Slim design
Good battery life
The Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone's camera captures extremely high-resolution images with fine detail
And puts creative controls at your fingertips
Truly outstanding camera
Excellent build quality & display
Reasonable battery life
The 41megapixel camera is the best out of all smartphones
Nokia Camera app is pretty good
Windows Phone 8 runs smoothly on the phone
Great design and matt finish makes it feel excellent in the hands
Decent battery life
Solid phone and mobile broadband performance
One of the best smartphone cameras ever created
Manual control in a phone camera = awesome
The editors didn't like
The lack of apps for the Windows 8 system
Windows Phone 8 app ecosystem
No expandable memory
$299 is a little pricey
A niche device
The Lumia 1020 is $100 pricier than most high-end smartphones. The lens makes it a little bulky. Multiple camera apps are confusing. It lacks manual f-stop control and presets for common shooting scenarios
Thick and bulky
Limited third-party app ecosystem
Camera app can be a little slow
Bulky
And has huge bump at the back that isn't aesthetically pleasing
Windows Phone 8 lacks photography apps to take advantage of camera
No expandable memory and no Qi wireless charging support
No expandable storage
Macro support on the camera is practically non-existent
Abstract: If you have read my other comparative review on the smartphones image quality, you would have read my opinion that the Nokia Lumia 1020 is one of the most outstanding smartphone cameras in the market. Other than the camera, the Nokia Lumia 1020 experience...
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is one of the best smartphones for taking photos that we've reviewed, especially if you take a lot of pictures in low-light conditions. The combination of the effective built-in image stabilisation system, fast lens, and big sensor d...
Abstract: Time to wrap things up - we wondered if maybe we should split the final decision into two, still photography and video recording, but the results came out consistent enough to declare a clear winner. And it is, drum roll please, the Nokia Lumia 1020. ...
Published: 2013-10-11, Author: Kevin , review by: dxomark.com
Excellent detail preservation both in low and bright light conditions, Very low noise level with no chroma component, Accurate exposure in extreme low light conditions (where other camera phones fail), Pleasing photo rendering with flash: good exposure, c
Strong color shading with indoor lighting and occasionally outdoors, In low light conditions, overly long exposure times lead to motion blur, Slightly tendency to underexposure outdoors, Occasional white balance inaccuracies outdoors or with fluorescent l
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Published: 2013-10-09, Author: Andy , review by: neowin.net
Abstract: Nokia arrived late to the Windows Phone party at the end of 2011 but, since then, it has come to dominate Microsoft's mobile ecosystem. Of those manufacturers that originally launched handsets with Windows Phone 7, just Samsung and HTC remain, joined more...
The best image quality available on a camera phone; The ability to zoom up to 3x without losing quality; A good level of manual control, with a well designed interface; Outstanding low light performance Effective Optical Image Stabilisation; Two stage shutter button gives cameralike experience; Excellent LCD screen visible even in bright light; Inclusion of a proper flash
A little slow, especially between shots; Limited range of apps
In the Lumia 1020 Nokia set out to produce the best image quality of any phone camera, along with the ability to zoom without that image quality disintegrating. It has succeeded on both counts. Both the full resolution and oversampled 5MP images ar...
Features, Nokia has built the Lumia 1020 around a fairly modest dualcore 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC — the same as used in the Lumia 920 and 820. Those two handsets have 1GB of RAM, but the memory has been boosted to 2GB for the Lumia 1020, There's
The Nokia Lumia 1020 has a truly impressive camera capable of shooting decent photos. However, it's no substitute for a good standalone digital camera, and heavy use seriously depletes the battery. The Lumia 1020 certainly has appeal, but many users might...
When it comes to the Nokia Lumia 1020, you are essentially buying a camera with a Windows Phone attached to it. While the Nokia 808 Pureview was a great phone and camera, it failed mostly due to the archaic operating system that it sported. The Lumia 1...
