On Tuesday, AT&T started accepting pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 1020. Demand was so
heavy for the camera-centric smartphone that someone who ordered the device shortly after the online
site went live, found out that he was too late as the phone had sold out.
As early as 8:42am Tuesday morning, AT&T had sent him an email to tell him
that the model was now on backorder. It surely
seems as though Nokia and Microsoft have a winner here (the two are definitely
intertwined in a way that Samsung and Google never will be), and the unsaid
notion is that this is another nail in the coffin of BlackBerry. After iOS and
Android take their slice of the pie, there is a limited amount of dessert left
over. If Windows Phone picks up market share, it probably will be at the expense
of the Canadian manufacturer whose only response to the Lumia 1020 is the rather tepid BlackBerry
A10 Aristo. The Nokia Lumia 1020 will ship on July 23rd
for those lucky enough to get their order in before supplies were all accounted
for. An AT&T rep told us on Wednesday night that new orders will be shipped
on or around July 25th. The 32GB model of the phone is $299.99 with a signed
two-year pact. Of
course, this doesn't really say how many devices were ordered and the number
could be really small for all we know. AT&T may have just ordered few
devices and were caught off guard by the demand for the phone. We'll have to
wait for official figures from Nokia to find out just how many units they have
sold so far. In case you missed it, the Lumia 1020 is Nokia's latest flagship
device running Windows Phone 8. It features the second generation of the 41
megapixel PureView camera that we first saw on the 808 PureView. Couple that
with a 720p display, dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and 2GB RAM, the Lumia
1020 is easily the most exciting Windows Phone device released till date.
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