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Thought the machine will be coming to the USA with AT&T first, but suggestions from the company itself have aimed the machine out with a wider field of vision, as it were. As the original Nokia Lumia 920 was all but exclusive when it was released in the USA (until advanced versions like the 928 and now the 925 as well, were introduced, it would seem that the word “exclusive” has some hidden meaning to it.
During the “Zoom, Reinvented” event in New York City this week, Nokia’s own Stephen Elop revealed that the Nokia Lumia 1020 would be coming to AT&T “first” in the United States. This could very well simply mean that it’ll be appearing out in the wild off-contract internationally soon after the AT&T release, or it could mean that Verizon and T-Mobile want a taste of this machine as well.
Of course such a release would have to take place quite a few months down the road as both carriers very recently got their own extremely similar device to work with. With AT&T, the device will be ringing in at a rather hefty $299.99 on-contract. While international pricing has not yet been revealed, global releases will include China, Europe, and Latin America inside this quarter.
UPDATE: inside the THIRD quarter, so says Nokia, for China and Western Europe specifically. Also there will, indeed, be variants to watch for beyond the three colors.
“It will arrive in China and Western Europe in the third quarter of 2013. Nokia plans to ship an exclusive variant of the device with Telefonica in selected European and Latin American markets.” – Ian Delaney for Nokia
There’s a choice between yellow, black, and white iterations of this device too, and the machine comes with at least one dedicated accessory: the camera grip. This grip will be available for $79.99 and will be available for purchase aside the phone itself. Have a peek at our full detail article for the Nokia Lumia 1020 and let us know what you think – have at it!
Nokia Lumia 1020 bringing PureView beyond AT&T [UPDATE] is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nokia has just announced the new Lumia 1020, which sports a 41-megapixel camera on the back with plenty of bells and whistles. Now, developers will be able to take advantage of the PureView technology in their own apps, thanks to the launch of a new Developers SDK from Nokia that app developers can grab starting today.
The new SDK will give developers the ability to manipulate different camera settings in their apps, and it will provide “key image editing features” of the Nokia Lumia 1020 to developers. Several new apps are coming to the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Windows Phone 8, such as Vyclone, Yelp, Flipboard, Hipstamatic, and CNN.
Nokia ended up doing a short demonstration of the Hipstamatic app on stage, which includes PureView technology thanks to the new SDK from Nokia. The app has the 1020′s hi-resoltuion zoom feature built in, as well as the quality control indicators that help the user take a better photo.
The app also has hundreds of combinations of different filters and lenses that you can choose from, and you can also go into the app and click on the photos in order to share to different social media services like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Developers can actually download and begin using the new SDK today from Nokia’s Developer portal. The SDK is currently in beta, so play at your own risk.
Nokia Lumia 1020 gets Imaging SDK for third-party PureView capabilities is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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the Alcatel One Touch Fire, a Firefox OS phone
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
A week after Spain’s Telefonica became the first carrier to sell Firefox OS phones, Deutsche Telekom has become the second.
The German company will begin selling the Alcatel One Touch Fire with Mozilla’s Firefox OS in Poland starting Friday in 850 shops and online, the company said Thursday.
Deutsche Telekom subsidiaries Magyar Telekom in Hungary and Cosmote in Greece will begin selling the phones starting in the fall. The company didn’t release pricing details.
Alcatel One Touch Fire (pictures)
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Nokia’s sure taken its time, but its 41-megapixel Windows Phone beast is now finally out of the bag. Naturally, we have to compare this Lumia 1020 with its recent siblings: externally it’s closer to the 920 than the slimmer 925 or 928, except for its earpiece and, well, the camera. That said, the 1020 is somehow a lot lighter and a little thinner than the bulky 920, while packing the same 2,000mAh battery. Clearly, the lack of built-in Qi wireless charging and perhaps that Gorilla Glass 3 screen are responsible for this weight loss.
And needless to say, the Symbian-powered 808 PureView didn’t come with as many goodies compared to its Windows Phone cousin — even the newer lens is faster with six elements instead of five. Feel free to check out our detailed comparison table after the break.
Check out all the news from today’s Nokia event at our hub!
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Nokia announces Lumia 1020 Imaging SDK, enlists CNN, Yelp and others for custom enhancements
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Nokia’s Lumia 1020 has finally gone official today and, no surprise here, it’s all about imaging. To complement the handset’s 41-megapixel BSI sensor and accompanying ProCamera software, Nokia’s released an imaging SDK to devs that want to impose their own camera customizations. As of now, the Finnish company’s seeded the SDK out to the likes of CNN, Vyclone, Panagraph, Snapcam, Foursquare, Hipstamatic’s Oggl Pro, Yelp, Flipboard and Path — all of which have already been working on custom applications for the 1020. So what does that mean for the end user? Most likely, these third-party tweaks will entail high-res photo sharing and custom filters, as in the case of Path’s Lumia app. Nokia’s posted the SDK on its site for all developers today, so if you’re interested in seeing what the Lumia 1020’s beastly sensor can do for your app or what its SDK can do for WP8 apps in general, you know where to look.
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Source: Nokia Developer
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