I have two points to make. As an Australian, I get things months after half the world, so its not a happy life for a guy who just likes every gadget he has to be brand new. I think Nokia made a hell of a phone here and its price is fully justified: A DSLR grade shooter in your pocket! It brings a whole new meaning to the saying: 'The best camera is the one you have with you.' If a measly tiny shooter is the best...I cant live. Speaking of DSLRs, I do have a Canon EOS 550D, but it never seems to appear when amazing things happen. However, I also believe that Nokia is not going for the casual audience with this beast: a bad move for a struggling company who I hate to see die and a bad move for a misunderstood OS that I fell in love with barely a year ago. I know that Nokia is keen to strut its stuff with big numbers and innovations that it still manages to create, but AT LEAST, release a more mainstream phone for an average guy/girl on the street, who likes taking selfies that does not allow zooming into all his/her various imperfections.
The phone that should have being announced alongside the 1020 needs some powerful but more modest premium feel to it, it should come cheap at $99 US (I don't know what ur US paying methods is, so I just guess) on contract, it can have all the usual gimmicks the 1020 have, but lose 41 beast and just put a more simple 16 mp in there without all the loseless zooming and dual-resolution jargon that consumers normally don't care bout. I said 16 because I know megapixel counts does matter to 95% of the consumers, and 16 beats the 13 Sammy had crunched in the S4 (and then theres the **** xoom or zoom: just a cheap dslr strapped to a phone). It should have a thin and light form, with a combination of aluminium and polycarbonate design, weighing like 133g.
Does this sound familiar? It should be; which leads to my next point. The Lumia 925 should have waited a few more weeks and be announced with the 1020 with a different name (1005 or something); like the 820 to the 920. It makes sense because the 925 acts just like a bridge from the 920 to the 1020: It upgrade the camera lenses from 5 to 6, it improved the software aspects with new apps, and it appeals to the mass market with its design and weight. The 1020 and 925 just feels...right as a couple, while the 720, 520 and the 928 as a trio for April made more sense to treat the world while they waited. In Australia, my point makes even more sense: The availability day of the 925 is like July 27: EXACT date as the 1020's anyway. So now that 1020 is announced: the 925 sound like a oldie so out of the equation altogether for tech-savvy Aussies. If the 1020 was announced with the 925; its a whole different story.
So Nokia, a understandable but bad choice of marketing and product announcements, in fact, I still think the next generation of Lumias should have been announced much later than this: Windows Phone 8.1 any1?