Microsoft: Lumia 1020 is what billions of smartphone camera photographers have been waiting for

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Nokia Lumia 1020

Most of you already know, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is Nokia’s new flagship Windows Phone 8 device. The smartphone includes a 41-megapixel camera and is currently exclusive to AT&T. In a new video, Microsoft showcases the smartphone and its cool new camera capabilities.

“Meet the Nokia Lumia 1020, with 41 megapixels and reinvented zoom—this is what billions of smartphone camera photographers have been waiting for. Nothing else comes close,” Microsoft stated in the video description. We’ve embedded the video below for your viewing pleasure. Microsoft is touting the camera on this phone as offering image quality like no other smartphone in the world.

The device is has a 4.5 inch screen, and supports 2GB of RAM along with a 1.5 Ghz dual-core S4 processor. The camera is a 6-lens Ziess camera and can shoot images at 38-megapixels. It can take oversampled 5MP images, and can take 1080p video recording with 4x zoom.