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> 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful > > 5.0 out of 5 stars When in doubt, just capture the whole thing and forget > about it, August 5, 2013 > > By Sky Blue (germany) - See all my reviews > > This review is from: Nokia Lumia 1020, Yellow (AT&T) (Wireless Phone) > The other day I visited a local violin shop and was reading boardfull of ads, > standing in front of a wall in the shop, as I was searching for a violin > instructor. Suddenly a thought came into my mind - 'Wait, why am I doing > this? All I have to do is to take a photo of the entire wall from a few steps > back, go home, blow it up on my computer screen, and I can read even the > finest fonts on the ads including contacts.' Old habits die hard and I was > not utilizing my new Lumia 1020 until this idea hit me! So I did just that, > and bingo, there was nothing I could not read at home, even though the photo > was taken under dim light of the shop! (By the way this camera has xenon > flash as well, but ISO 4000 did the trick without the flash.) > > You cannot possibly know the usefulness or desirability of something until > you have one. Someone once said, "The world never needed Beethoven's ninth > symphony until he created it. Now the world cannot live without it." You > cannot know how convenient it is to have a camera that is far sharper than > your own eyes until you have one. No matter where you go, you have the > world's best capturing and recording device with you. I can think of infinite > uses. I have graduated college ages ago, but if I can go back to the bright > college years, I would no longer need to take the notes, at least not from > the blackboard -- I can simply capture the entire blackboard image when the > professor is done filling it up and should be able to read the faintest chalk > writing later in my room. > > By the way, 41 Megapixel does not mean you will get 41 megabyte size photo > files with every shot you take! Thanks to the amazing Pureview technology > that packs 7 mega into each mega "super" pixel, you get a 5 megabyte photo > plus 1 megabyte email attachment size automatically. You can further crop > anyway you want on your camera and the result will be still far better than > any smartphone photography in the world, if not most compact digital cameras. > (Sad to say, I think this really nailed the last one on the coffin of the > category called "compact digital cameras." Who needs those now when Lumia > 1020 has a better lens, better sensor, far better software technology, and > you can even use it as a phone?) > > With Lumia 1020, the background passerby's face will be sharper than the > carefully composed shot of your grandma that you took with your Galaxy -- > that is unless you intentionally tried "outfocusing" effect which you can > also do with this super smartphone. So if you need to capture certain > information but unsure of which to take, or if you are not sure of the > composition of your shot, just capture the whole thing and then worry about > it later -- you can crop, view, do whatever you want and your photo will > still retain that sharp resolution. > > OTHER PLUSES: > > -Windows Phone 8 is EXTREMELY stable. I repeat: no crashes whatsoever. > Totally different experience from using Android. > -Double Core Lumia 1020 certainly feels whole a lot faster than the quadcore > Galaxy S3 I used. I think quadcore is a marketing ploy, a gimmick. > -Touch is so much more accurate than all android systems I used including > Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7. So much fewer mistyped characters when writing emails > or sending messages. > -Separate and independent camera button (real, physical one) a big plus. No > need to go through the app process to take a picture. It's like having a > completely dual identity: a phone and a camera. Neither is subordinated to > the other. Each stands on its own. > -Best of all, wifi and 4G LTE data switching is seamless and fast. My Galaxy > S3 used to search for the "right" wifi or data all the time and when the wifi > signal was weak, it would not work at all so that I would have to "turn off" > wifi when there was weak wifi around just to use the data. No such things > ever happened. Extremely strong wifi signal reception and superfast 4G LTE > with AT&T. Totally happy with this. > -Having "Live Tiles" is like having widgets in lieu of app icons. They > display information in the absence of activating the app such as where you > last left off in your Kindle, what appointment you have today, etc. > Furthermore, you can change the sizes of them (just like widgets) so that you > can vary the sizes according to each app's importance, how much information > you want to view without activating the app, etc. > -Rock solid. I dropped mine twice without any protection from about 1.5 meter > heights. Not a scratch. > -Beautifully organized file system. With Android, the pictures I took were > all over the folders. This is whole a lot neater. > -Beautifully organized email system. I have my major email in the biggest > square tile and 4 minor emails in smaller square tiles next to it, and since > each tile indicates a new email I can instantly tell which email address just > got a new email just from the screen without activating anything. > > Minuses to Others (Not to me): > > -No instagram support and no Temple Run. (Frankly, I could not care less. All > the major apps I use are there -- Viber, Office, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, > Chessgenius, Amazon, Kindle, Yelp, Flixster, Skype, etc.) > -$300 with 2 year contract. Good things cost money in life - I get over it. > (Frankly, I would have paid $300 even without the phone -- just to use the > phenomenal digital zoom camera that is both wifi and data capable.) > Help other customers find the most helpfu >
