Recent images leaked on Twitter are reportedly of a new phone in the Lumia series. Reports doing the rounds suggest that the phone will be the successor of the Lumia 1020, which featured one of the best cameras in a smartphone till date.
NokiaPowerUser has dubbed the rumoured device to be the Lumia 1040, one of the two high-end Lumia devices that Microsoft is rumoured to be working on. The images have been leaked by Twitter user Evan Blass, famous for leaking numerous pre-launch smartphone and tablet images and information. The images show a phone that features a large lens along with dual flash. The Lumia 1020 previously featured a 41-megapixel camera. Additionally, rumours had surfaced about the Lumia 1030 which was touted to feature a 50-megapixel camera. The phone was never launched.
Left: The rumoured Lumia 1040 | Right: The scrapped Lumia 1030
If the rumours turn out to be true, Lumia fans will finally have a stellar device to look forward to, two years after the launch of Lumia 1020. Launched as the Nokia Lumia 1020, the smartphone featured a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus 1.5Ghz processor with Adreno 225 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 32GB internal memory (without any expandable memory slot), a 4.5” 768×1280 pixels AMOLED display at 332 ppi, and a 2000mAh non-removable battery pack. The main feature of the phone was its camera, a 41-megapixel behemoth featuring Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon/LED flash, that was also capable of recording 1080p videos at 30fps.
The rumour has arrived at a period of activity for Microsoft, with Windows 10 launch scheduled for late-July and ongoing development for their personal assistant Cortana. The phone is expected to be launched some time later this year.