There has been an inundation of images of an unconfirmed Nokia "EOS" on the net lately, hinting that Nokia may finally have the monster camera phone in the pipeline that has been rumored for at least six months now. Along with the pictures of a device with a Carl Zeiss PureView camera, with an unknown, but rumored 41-megapixels, there's a new video showing the camera's optical zoom in action and a physical shutter clicking on and off.
The most recent leaks come mainly from @vizileaks on Twitter, who also has a blog with all of the images and a carefully cropped video from a "hands-on" mini review of the still yet-to-be named mysterious Nokia phone. A successor to Nokia's current flagship line of the Lumia 920 (and its variants), the Nokia "EOS" is rumored to have a ridiculously premium 40 or 41-megapixel PureView camera that we first saw in the Nokia 808 PureView at the Mobile World Congress in 2012. Mix the 808 PureView with a Nokia 920, and that's what seems to be in @vizileaks' hands.
While we've got pics, specs for the rumored phone are meager at the moment. User @vizileaks didn't get the chance to fully dive in to the smartphone's info. Meeting with an "insider," @vizileaks got to take some pictures of the phone — which looks like a Lumia 920 with a raised camera in the back — and play around with it a little bit. Vizileaks says the phone is either metal or a strong, solid polycarbonate, but in any case, it feels very solid. On the top of the phone is a micro-sim card tray, a headphone jack and a noise cancellation mic. The bottom has a speaker grille and a microUSB port. The side seems to have a volume adjuster, lock button, and a camera shutter button.
The back is all camera, marked with XX Megapixel (obviously Nokia's keeping the megapixel count very close to the chest) and Carl Zeiss, with a Xenon flash bar and raised camera bed, much like the 808. Very much meant for photography, the markings on the raised camera are to be read in landscape, meaning this is for real camera-phone photographers who don't take every photo in portrait. Check out the video for the PureView camera's physical zoom and shutter in action.
Though Vizileaks couldn't get specs from their trial of the phone, it was said that GSMArena's current specs seem pretty close to the truth. GSMArena report the phone comes with a 4.5-inch display, at 1280 x 768p resolution. Storage is expected to be 32GB and the phone may be run by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor with 1GB RAM. The operating system will be Windows rather than the comically ancient Symbian OS, which the 808 PureView came out with.
The specs are of course rumors, and we'll have to wait until more comes out to truly know what hardware the "EOS," or whatever its name may turn out to be, may carry. If it's going to be the next flagship Nokia phone, it had better have better specs than what GSMArena currently thinks. It's expected to be unveiled in Q3 2013, but we'll just have to wait and see if that's true, too. One thing is for sure, this phone is going to have some kind of monster for a camera, and that's just wonderful.
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