Nokia Lumia 1520

Nokia Lumia 1520 User Review and Ratings

• The best windows phone
  Praful Yadav (May 5, 2014) on Gadgets 360
  First of all guys please stop cribbing about windows phone app collection. It has all the necessary apps and more are being added on a daily basis. Yes WP still has some catching up to do but it is getting there fast. For those who feel Windows Phone Operating System is not matured, If you feel so then you have not used a windows phone in person, you are those people who just watch few YouTube videos or so called reviews. The OS is silky smooth and everything is though out well, everything is simple and elegant. The live tiles are beautiful and yes you tend to get bored of the limited collection of accent colours but this will change soon with the newly announced Windows Phone 8.1 update which provides option to toggle between extra columns of tiles and default tile layout. Also you have an option of setting any image as home screen live tiles background wallpaper which has parallax effect. Windows Phone 8.1 is bringing tons of features which are par with android OS. Now about the device itself: 1. The build quality is stunning; I prefer the matt finish polycarbonate to the glossy finish which was the case with my previous Lumia 920. 2. Phone is very sleek, though on paper its weight may scare you but in person its not that bad. You will get used it to soon as the weight is uniformly distributed. 3. The size of the phone will really scare you at first, I have above average sized hands so its manageable but many people may find it quite difficult to handle this phone due to its massive footprint. 4. I am totally in love with this 6? 1080 x 1920 IPS LCD display. It?s great for media consumption the viewing angle is amazing, sun light readability is the best out there; colours look punchy yet not being overly saturated like AMOLED displays. You do get to play with colour saturation and contrast in display settings as per your taste. 5. The best part of this phone is its massive 3400 mAh battery coupled with the latest low energy consumption Qualcomm snapdragon 800 chipset. You can easily get through a day of heavy usage. (Refer gsmarena.com for the battery rating: It?s the top phone in the list) 6. The hardware is par with the latest high-end android devices. 7. Super sensitive touch, inbuilt wireless charging capable, SD card support up to 64 GB (128 GB with WP 8.1 update) 8. The top feature: The 20 MP Carl Zeiss optics with physical optical image stabilization is one of the best you can find in the market (Yes excluding Nokia's own Lumia 1020 which is in a separate league of its own). This device takes some stunning stills and captures amazing videos. Nokia Camera app is one of the best out there which is simple easy to use with many manual controls which are only found on Professional DSLRs. If you have little knowledge re ISO, Shutter speed, exposure you can take some stunning looking shots. I just can?t stop lov
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• Encounter with a Goliath ? Nokia Lumia 1520
  Rahul Radhakrishnan (May 2, 2014) on Gadgets 360
  At first glance the Lumia 1520 looks like a magnified Lumia 925 - it has almost same design and build except for it ditches aluminum, with a small camera hump. The 6 inch display fills up your hands and your face. There is nothing much in the front. The Nokia Lumia 1520 has a 6" IPS LCD screen of 1080p resolution, the pixel density works out to 367ppi. The LCD incorporates Nokia's ClearBlack tech - a set of polarizing filters, which minimize glare. Plus, Gorilla Glass 2 on top for protection. The 1080p IPS LCD display is one gorgeous display very similar to HTC One?s Super LCD3 display, it has excellent real tone color reproduction unlike Super Amoled , viewing angles are excellently wide with only a minor shift in contrast when going to extremes , adjustable saturation and temperature levels, and you?ve got an outstanding Smartphone display. The front of the phablet is entirely coated with Gorilla Glass 2, which covers the screen, the capacitive keys and front camera. It is powered by 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 2GB of Ram. So it is no slouch. It has the latest processor and latest hardware. Rounding out the superstar spec sheet is the 1520?s storage capacity. In addition to the 32GB of onboard storage, the 1520 also offers a MicroSD card slot for storage expansion up to an additional 64GB ? making it the only flagship Nokia device to do so. Battery life is great with the massive battery of 3,400mAh, light-weight Windows Phone OS and power-efficient display, the Lumia 1520 is well ahead of the other phablets The phablet also comes with built-in wireless charging. Add in 802.11ac, BT 4.0, and NFC support; and LTE capability (only for US I believe) alongside HSPA+, alongside HSPA+, and you?re looking at the highest-end Windows Phone ever to hit the market. Camera The 20MP PureView module is optically-stabilized, with six-element Carl Zeiss optics and a 1/2.5 inch sensor with an aperture rating of f/2.4, complimented with a dual-LED flash. It can capture both 5mp oversampled image and 19mp images in one shot, . Lossless digital zoom of 2x is available,. It can capture 1080 videos and RAW DNG images. Conclusion; It is a huge phone and that itself is a letdown for me. But seeing the sales our local manufacturers are making through phablets, I see lot of people is not like me and they enjoy media consumption with a huge phone. Right now it truly is a match for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in hardware and sometimes better, but in software departments, Note 3 with its top notch multitasking and cool S-pen features, Lumia is no match for it. But if your idea is to have a huge phablet with Big screen with an awesome camera and you love using phone for multimedia consumption and Microsoft office suite for work, this phone is for you, this phone is for you, if you are a poweruser, nothing beats the Note 3.
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• Awesome Window of Happiness
  Subhash Chand (Jun 1, 2014) on Gadgets 360
  I have been using this phone since late last year, I love it. I make my living with the phone and it has not failed me in anyway. The huge screen makes my iphone friends envious . The phone has plenty of space for my music especially since I added a 64 Micro SD card. The zune software made much needed improvements for adding music to the phone ( X box music). Camera is 20 mp and is excellent, the os makes posting pics on FB one click. Battery life lasts the day easily and I have been a windows mobile user for a few years now I am loving the OS more and more as each update comes in. The address book is by far the best I have seen from any os. Its connection with FB makes it quick to get caught up with a persons life and I don't miss birthdays anymore. Great phone that help keeps my world connected.
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• awsome phone
  Faizan Siddiqui (May 19, 2014) on Gadgets 360
  nokia lumia 1520 : ( review ) phablet : a word not very widespread among Windows Phone users, now better known thanks to the Nokia Lumia 1520 : a 6-inch Full HD display , a camera PureView from just 20 Megapixels and, of course, the unmistakable and beautifully designed Nokia 2 GB of RAM (the other top of the range, except for 1020, he mounted one), a quad-core processor with 2.2 GHz , 32 GB of memory expandable with microSD up to large 64 GB, connectivity 4G LTE and Bluetooth 4.0 The large Full HD display with 6-inch has an amazing resolution of 368 ppi , a strong luminosity which easily allows the use of the Sun and the protection of the glass curved Gorilla Glass 2. has an aspect ratio of 16:9 The camera is another highlight: technology PureView , a 20 megapixel sensor stabilized and, of course, the legendary Carl Zeiss lens . The battery is 3400 mAh and allows you to safely get through the day
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• Most powerful windows phone in the market !
  Dinesh Kumar (May 31, 2014) on Gadgets 360
  Intro: The Nokia Lumia 1520 is just like the rest of the premium Lumia smartphones we've seen, but bigger and faster. With the Snapdragon 800 making sure the finest experience. PROS: Lumia 1520 is a giant phablet, it packs the most powerful specs with it . By a 6' inch screen it looks most beautiful display in the market. By its ips technology it looks great ,its better than amoled displays. Nokia is named for best camera in their phones, this giant has that too. this packs 20 mp camera with best low light imaging. and packs with 1.2 mp front camera. It has Full HD display and 2gb of ram and 3400mAh battery, so it is one of the powerful hardware till date. Most of them says windows phone has a proper app store , but I think Microsoft had been worked on it , now we have all the essential apps in the store. CONS: Windows phone UI is the most fresh UI till date . it looks great , but still it is not customized for phablets. and too for multitasking. The phone is little bigger then all, so it is not liked by all types of people. And the main thing is price, it priced for about 47K . by this price we can get the more powerful and a multitasking android phones.
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