Canadian students win Nokia Capture Hackathon

After 1,000 ideas submitted from around the world and 10 teams selected as finalists (6 soloists and four teams of 2), Canadian college students Rudi Chen and Shida Li beat out both student and seasoned developer teams and were crowned winners of Nokia’s Capture developer contest during a 27-hour hackathon in Sweden.

The University of Waterloo students were first-time hackathon attendees and their winning application was a “content-aware down-sampling” smart resizing app that lets users edit or delete empty space between important parts of a photo while keeping the rest of the image. They each took home Nokia Lumia 1020 and a trip to attend an upcoming event where the app will be showcased.

Nokia Lumia 1020 "coming soon" to TELUS

While most OEM's are pushing the boundaries of screen size and processing power in their devices, Nokia is sticking to their guns and pushing the boundaries on the amount of megapixels they can pack into their smartphone cameras; this time around it's 41 to be exact. And while Nokia did recently announce that this anticipated device would be coming to Canada by way of TELUS and Rogers, not much else was known in regards to pricing or release date.

The Lumia 1020 packs a 4.5-inch 1280×768 LCD display, 1.5Ghz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus processor, 41MP PureView camera with Xenon Flash, LTE connectivity, 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 1.2MP front-facing camera and a 2,000mAh battery.

While, sorry to tease, we still don't have anything in regards to said pricing or release date, we do know that the device is indeed coming soon (as per the screenshot taken from TELUS' website directly). 

Stay tuned for more

via MobileSyrup

Nokia reportedly unveiling Lumia 1520 on Sept. 26

Aside from showing a leaked image of the Nokia Lumia 1520, @Evleaks on Twitter claims the new 6-inch Windows Phone 8 device is going to be launched on September 26. If @Evleaks is as accurate as it usually is about device information and launch dates, this would be coming right at the heels of the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablet launch on September 23 in New York.

Source: @Evleaks

Nokia Lumia 1020 coming to TELUS, brings Lumia 625 with it

Looks like the Nokia Lumia 1020 isn’t going to be exclusive to Rogers. MobileSyrup reported that current flagship from the Finnish tech company is going to be available for TELUS subscribers, making this the first time they have carried a flagship Windows Phone since 2012 when they offered the Lumia 800. Aside from the 41MP Lumia 1020, Nokia’s low-cost 4.7-inch Lumia 625 is also going to be carried by TELUS.