Catwalk camera gets teased in UK TV ad prior to Tuesday's Nokia event

Nokia as of belatedly has been all about teasing new phones before their announcement. The Verizon Nokia Lumia 928's camera was repeatedly teased before its formal reveal on Fri, and with a new Nokia Lumia announcement scheduled for Tuesday in London, Nokia's at it again. This time the teasing is happening on national television set in the UK on Channel 4, with an advertisement noticed by TechCrunch that focuses on the camera of an as-of-nonetheless unannounced Lumia device, followed past championship cards reading "More than your optics can see" and "The new Nokia Lumia is coming". In other words, the Catwalk cometh.

Unlike Nokia's teasing of the Lumia 928 where the focus was on images produced by the camera, the new teaser ad focuses on the physical camera unit itself, with close-up shots of the raised lens and dual-LED flash. Unlike the Lumia 920, 928, and, well, every Lumia excepting the 520/521 and the 710, the photographic camera featured hither is not surrounded by a glossy black or silver plate. In fact, there'south a singled-out lack of branding effectually the camera, with just a hint of lettering on the other side of its hump.

The shape and placement of the camera, the flash, and the branding are consistent with the image leak of the Catwalk from concluding month. By all appearances the Catwalk appears to be built with an aluminum body frame while still possessing a plastic-type back console. The device is as well reportedly significantly lighter and thinner, though dissimilar the electric current flagship Lumia 920/928 combo, the Catwalk does non announced to come with born wireless charging.

Regardless, nosotros're less than two days from the official unveil of the new Nokia Lumia Xxx, with yet another improved camera and a build radically different from anything Nokia'southward released every bit a Lumia before. What practise you lot retrieve?

Update: Our folks over at The Verge managed to snag a re-create of the ad - information technology's below.

Source: TechCrunch, The Verge

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