Report: Nokia EOS Smartphone is Lumia 1020
Rumors of a Nokia smartphone codenamed EOS have been doing the rounds for a while. Running Windows Phone, the rumor mill says the phone will boast Nokia's PureView camera technology, and recent hints from Nokia suggest that it is preparing to launch a device with a 41-megapixel lens. Today brings fresh speculation about the EOS, but this time around, the rumor mill is churning out chatter on branding as opposed to hardware.
According to Twitter user @evleaks, the Nokia EOS will carry the Finnish company's Lumia branding. Considering previous rumors that said that this would be a Windows Phone device, there's no surprise there. However, @evleaks also revealed the model number of this upcoming PureView phone. According to his Twitter page, when Nokia unveils the device, it'll be called the Lumia 1020.
Nokia last week teased that it had 41 million reasons for us to tune into its July 11 event scheduled for New York City. Just 16 days to go!
41-megapixel lens...???
Lol
Most likely this will be released for the holiday rush, which means that it will ship with GDR3. WPBlue/8.1 will not come until early 2014.
But, GDR3 will unlock the ability for the phone to have a 1080p screen and a quad core CPU, so it could very well be a next gen windows phone, and finally play with the big boys on the market in terms of raw processing power. Sadly, the leaked photos I have seen show it being not much bigger than the L920, which will probably mean that a quad core CPU will be limited by thermals and battery much of the time (like most quad core phones). Still needed for the parallel requirements of processing such huge photos, but does not mean much of anything for day to day performance.
Yeah, nothing goes more smoothly than an android version roll out.
That's not my point.
The point is people are so brainwashed into thinking the more megapixels you have the better the picture. Megapixels is just the size of the image and has to be scaled down to even fit on the computer screen or print as a photo. So essentially a 41MP crappy picture is no better than a 10MP crappy picture.
The size of the image sensor is where the magic happens. A larger sensor with larger pixels is more sensitive to light, better in low light and has better color reproduction. This is what gives you a better picture. However, this spec is not standardized, and not advertised.