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Leaked Lumia has huge camera hump

Images of a Lumia smartphone with a massive camera hump (like the Lumia 1020) have appeared along with a product listing on a Chinese auction site. High end Lumia smartphones have always prided themselves on their imaging prowess with the Lumia 1020 holding a particularly notable mention with that insane 41 megapixel PureView image sensor.

The product listing, which has since been taken offline shows the leaked phone to have a similar sort of camera hump to that of the Lumia 1020 and is identified as the “Nokia RM-1052” which would seem to give credence to the assumption that this is a prototype for a successor to the Lumia 1020 from either Nokia or Microsoft itself.

The casing appears to be made almost entirely from aluminium with only a small section of polycarbonate plastic visible at the bottom which would most likely be where the wireless radios would be installed. The camera module itself seems to have lost its Xenon flash in favour of the dual LED variety we’ve become accustomed o in many smartphones of late. Along with losing the Xenon flash the camera seems to have lost out on its mechanical flash which is most likely due to the fact that it was no longer required once the flash changed to LED modules.

Software wise, the RM-1052 is running a version of Windows Phone 8.1, which has a row of on-screen system keys like the HTC One (M8) for Windows, along with 2GB of RAM and what looks to be 32GB of storage and a quad core processor. The display has also been upgraded from the 720p unit in the Lumia 1020 to a 1080p unit which would help the photographically minded review their shots in a higher resolution without having to transfer them to a PC first.

This could still be a prototype for an upcoming product or it could be something that will never see the light of day or as the Verge’s Tom Warren thinks, it could be the cancelled McLaren prototype which was meant to have Kinect-like gesture controls.

[Source, Images – Geek on Gadgets, Via – The Verge]

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