Hasta La Gadget!

We imagine the poor soul that flipped the switch a bit too early on Nokia’s latest flagship will be in the unemployment queue come 9AM. AT&T just posted the Lumia 1020 on its YouTube channel, complete with a trio of videos that include very basic walkthroughs of the interface and hardware design. The highlight here, as we already expected, is image capture. The first AT&T demo focuses entirely on the device’s video shooting capabilities, including 720p with 6x zoom and stereo audio capture. A second outlines the 41-megapixel sensor and optical image stabilization, while a third video highlights the BSI sensor, Zeiss optics and full manual control. There aren’t any specs to share beyond that, unfortunately, but the device is clearly coming to AT&T. We imagine we’ll learn a whole lot more at Nokia’s “Zoom Reinvented” event later today.

Update: An hour after the videos first appeared, they’ve now been marked private. No matter. Our own clips are working just fine, and they’re embedded after the break.

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Source: AT&T (YouTube)

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“We found that, when people put these [controller designs] in their hands, [they] could tell the difference between a 10th of a millimeter in size” Xbox creative director Carl Ledbetter told Polygon. The team of roughly thirty people started by sketching out possibilities then sent them to the in-house model shop next door, where physical versions of the designs could be created.

The models, Ledbetter says, were then deployed into real-world settings, to see how well they worked. Meanwhile, the engineers tested for exactly how practical they would be, and whether they would accommodate the internal hardware for the Xbox One required.

Some of the designs are more outlandish than others. Although the angular shapes that made it through to the production Xbox One are clear in many of the prototypes, Microsoft’s team also flirted with curves, Stealth Bomber-style planes, and even a suspended “X” design.

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