I’d love to have the sources The Verge has – my sources are great by the way, they’re just more discrete about stuff. Here’s what The Verge has today about an upcoming Nokia Lumia 928, coming in April this year on Verizon (and I quote from their article)
“Microsoft is gearing up to market Nokia’s upcoming Verizon flagship heavily. Sources familiar with Nokia’s plans have revealed to The Verge that the company plans to launch its Lumia 928 handset in April on Verizon. Known previously as Laser, the Lumia 920 variant will include some significant changes that make it a new standalone device. We’re told that Nokia will switch to aluminum for the 928, with a xenon and LED flash combination for the 8-megapixel PureView camera.
Nokia’s new flagship will also reduce the weight and thickness compared to the Lumia 920. We’re told the Lumia 928 is 10.2mm at its thinnest point with a slightly curved back. The Lumia 928 has a squared look that’s similar to the Lumia 720 and is said to feel a lot lighter than the Lumia 920. Other specifications, including CPU and RAM, will be identical to the Lumia 920. The 928 will also launch with a 4.5-inch OLED display and support for simultaneous voice and LTE (SVLTE) — other Verizon devices support SVLTE, but the iPhone 5 notably does not.”
That’s all I know. Important parts of this post are of course the combination of a Xenon and LED flash (like in the Nokia 808 PureView) and a 8MP “PureView camera.
The most important question is: what kind of PureView this time? Certainly no oversampling (the sensor would be too small) and no OIS (the device would be to small). So dear club members: what is it? Any ideas? Graphene already? I don’t think so.
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Sounds like more of the same from Nokia – certainly not anything that would want me to give up my 808 for the foreseeable future.
Agree!
I cannot see any good reason to move from my 808 as it`s still the king of cameraphones:-)
I guess the camera will be exactly like in the 920, so also with OIS, even though they could have left it out, but then what a shame. of course except that xenon flash that is really handy sometimes (even though i try not to use flash when ever possible) I bet the flash is weaker than in the 808.
The number 928 already shows that it is just some “subtype” of the 920.
correction: over-simplified thought: if you have xenon flash, you don’t need OIS, so they might have left it out… xenon flash would be the pureview then…
OLED Display is for me another great point for the 928, but i hope it has still the supersensitive “glove” technique inside.
Amoled and the aluminium would help make the device more thin OR it will make it a LITTLE thinner and put a THICKER imagesensor in it.
But to be realistic:
I think it will be the same sensor as the 920, so no chance against my 808, so badly i want WP8, the sensor should be minimum the one from the N8.
Thinnest point means there a thicker ones for the OIS ^^
Still, nothing better than the 808.. 8-)
21x Zoom :-D
would it really be too small for ois? the htc one has ois, doesn’t it? digital ois?
HTC also has hardware OIS but a gyro one not with springs like in 920.
It still does the job.
but less good. “Damian Dinning @PhoneDaz
So the size of the HTC’s sensor is the same size as the #Lumia 920 and it’s stabilisation according to HTC only works to 1/7.5 vs 1/3…”