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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.

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This week the folks at Nokia have gone through not only the basic vision for the Nokia Lumia 1020, but it’s 41 megapixel PureView photography abilities as well. What we’re getting to see here is the machine’s aim to not just take one massive photo each time it shoots, but an array of photos. You’ll be seeing high-energy high-density sharp and bright photos no matter the size you capture: 38 megapixel or 34-megapixel images in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, large and small.

This device works with a 41-megapixel backside illuminated sensor the likes of which advance that of the technology found in the original Nokia 808 PureView (a device which also uses a 41-megapixel sensor. This sensor is indeed – as you may have guessed, the largest image sensor in any consumer smartphone at the moment, and the machine comes in black, white, and yellow, as well – have a peek at full details on the device here: Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView official.

Then know this: as you take each photo at its massive 38 or 34-megapixel size, you’ll also be capturing a 5-megapixel photo. This photo will be captured and processed with Nokia’s own Oversampling techniques. This Oversampling process is said by Nokia to be processing 1 billion pixels per second when shooting video, as well.

This machine works with image stabilization the likes of which appeared in the Nokia Lumia 920, 925, 928, and the whole process will be working with “blur free, super high detailed photos day or night.” That’s Nokia’s Elop speaking, and he also promises “2nd generation image stabilization” for this machine while he’s at it – the Nokia Lumia 1020 also works with a new generatiopn in OIS, with a lovely series of ball bearings around this device’s housing.

With six lenses made by ZEISS – you might known it all better as Carl Zeiss, mind you, but the name is ZEISS forevermore. With this setup you’ll be getting digital zoom the likes of which we’ve not seen before.

Zoom in on a shot, take the shot, look at the shot, and zoom out again (even if you’ve taken the shot zoomed in) – the extra image data still persists. This setup also allows “Rich Recording” – aka loud audio recording for when you’re at a massively ear-destroying concert – as well as long exposure modes (for light painting, of course).

This is all done with the machines’ new Pro camera app which we’ll get into deeper soon – stay tuned!

Nokia Pro Camera Zooming:

Nokia Pro Camera Photography:

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Well, that was pretty anticlimactic. After teasing us mercilessly for the past few weeks, Nokia’s Stephen Elop has taken the stage here in New York to surprise absolutely no one and officially reveal the Nokia Lumia 1020.

The device is apparently set to launch exclusively with AT&T on July 26 with a $299 on-contract price tag. China and certain European markets will get the Lumia 1020 some time this quarter.

Sadly, a string of recent leaks have done away with much of the mystery surrounding the event (but really — what else is new?). As expected, the 1020 features a 4.5-inch AMOLED PureMotion HD+ screen running at 1280 x 768, but we’re still waiting on confirmation on a tentative spec listing that claimed the device sports a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core chipset, along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory.

Naturally, the real star of the show is the 41-megapixel backside-illuminated PureView camera sensor nestled in the 1020′s rear end, and Elop is currently running through what makes it so special.

That 41-megapixel camera is capable of capturing 34 and 38 megapixel-photos in 16:9 or 4:3, but when it takes that high-res image the 1020 is also saving what Elop calls a 5-megapixel “oversampled” image. Each of the pixels in those oversampled photos is composed of up to 7 pixels captured by the sensor (HTC did something similar on a smaller scale with the One’s UltraPixel camera), which makes for some richly detailed photos for sharing. Nokia’s Floating Lens stabilization technology seen in devices like the Lumia 920 has also been reworked to support the 1020′s hefty sensor.

There’s some truly impressive zoom capability here as well, as evidenced by the fact that Elop likes to ride in helicopters and capture shots from the air. Video recording is similarly important to the Lumia 1020, and the device is capable of recording 1080p video at 30 frames per second, and the same imaging innovations that make pictures look as good as they do also dramatically improve video quality. Throw in continued support for rich audio recording (which featured prominently in the 808 PureView’s spec list) and the 1020 is looking like quite a media creation tool.

Thoughtful hardware is only part of the imaging solution Nokia has concocted here, as it’s supplemented by a new Nokia Pro Camera mode that gives users much more granular control over photo quality. The viewfinder gives you realtime feedback of your settings changes, and enhanced exposure settings enabled Elop and pals to do a little light painting on stage.

The camera grip that leaked earlier made an appearance, and in addition to giving mobile photographers something more substantial to grab onto, it also packs a 1,020mAh battery to supplement the (rather anemic) 2,000 mAh battery sealed inside the 1020.

Nokia has finally married its 41-megapixel PureView camera technology with Windows Phone. The result: Nokia’s Lumia 1020.

As Rafiki from the Lion King once said, “It is time.”

Nokia is gearing up to make a big announcement with little-to-no mystery baked in. Leaks abounded for the Nokia Lumia 1020 in the past few hours, which we’ll undoubtedly meet in real life for the first time today.

But what else can we expect? Is Instagram potentially heading to the Windows Phone platform? Perhaps Path?

We’ll have all the answers for you very shortly, so sit back, relax, and enjoy yourself some good, old-fashioned live blogging.