The proposed
high-end Nokia renews with this Lumia 1520 , which appears to complement
the good impression we left 1020. There is a clear line of continuity in the line of design, but also important differences, starting with the size.
And the
Nokia Lumia 1520 if something is striking at first glance is its size. His six inch dimensions place it squarely in the realm of what has been calling phablet, a category in which many actors came last year in the wake of Samsung, which followed his reign with Note 3.
But the 1520 is much more than a big Lumia, we will try to analyze whether Nokia is a step after his very good teams year in 2013.
Nokia Lumia 1520 specifications.
Something worth mentioning this 1520 is not only the screen - in which we stop later - but because
the Nokia phone that incorporates the two gigs of RAM or processor Qualcomm level 800 Quad-core that makes it League of Android franchises in terms of power is concerned.
This should not worry as long as the flow of the operating system - Windows Phone is very well optimized for more modest settings - but maybe as moving games and video in high resolution that 1520 offers and facing future, thinking about how long it will be upgradeable to the latest versions of the system.
Finally, emphasize that Nokia has chosen
Nanosim microSIM instead, perhaps to try to occupy minimum space and all the logic of the camera enlarges even more the phone.
Lumia Nokia 1520 Specifications
Physical Dimensions 162.8 × 85.4 × 8.7 mm, 209 grams
Screen LCD with ClearBlack 6 inches
Resolution Full HD, with a pixel density of 367PPI
Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, quad-core at 2.2GHz
Graphics Processor Adreno 330
RAM 2 GB
Memory 32 GB, microSD up to 64 Gb
Version Windows Phone 8
Connectivity NFC , A- GPS + GLONASS, WLAN (2.4/5GHZ) a / b / g / n / ac, uUSB, BT 4.0 LE
Expansion ports MicroUSB
Cameras PureView 20 megapixels, Flash LED , Sensor 1/2, 5
Battery 3400 mAh (not removable)
The 1520 hand: design and management
I would say that there are very few companies - no more than three - in the world of mobile telephony with the current language glossy own. Nokia is one of them and that means that their last Lumias are not only recognizable as yours at first glance, but their bet by bright and colorful is influencing notably in the sector.
The
Lumia 1520 we have had for the analysis is a deep red, but also available in yellow popularized 1020, in white and black. Finished repeat the polycarbonate in a single body, but beyond that this is a magnet for fingerprints on the back, the feeling of quality and a round product completion is presented in detail.
We can not ignore the issue of size. Nokia has gone to six inches in a device in which there is room for further improvement in the size of frames, adding to all the phone going over 200 grams (this is inevitably compared to the Note 3 ) . In short, the Nokia 1520 is great on all variables.
Both hand - use with a is just impractical with a team of this size -. As to the wear in your pants require it compromises
not going to be the most comfortable in the market anywhere near the phone, but instead screen offers a very generous size. This is one of the crucial aspects in any phablet - some the size does not fire both in others even more - and the Nokia 1520 are palpable from the second number one with the terminal.
Related to the issue of the camera there are two aspects to highlight. On the side maintain physical button to shoot and turn directly to the camera and is lost as prominent hump Nokia 1020 while photographic terminal characteristics have also diminished. In fact, the 1520 connects more with the 925 than with the great photographic terminal last year. In Windows Engadget we did a thorough comparison between the three.
The phablet approach is reinforced by the kind of accessories that Nokia, among which the case / stand that inevitably reminds the
Apple iPad offers. The message is clear, who must think in 1520 from a device that sacrifices size and weight to bring the size of the screen to a tablet.
I leave the table with size of several recent phablets in the vicinity of the six inches that we saw in the analysis of the Oppo N1.
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HTC One Max, Silver | Nokia Lumia 1520 |
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| Size(mm) | 170,7 × 82,6 × 9 | 164,5 × 82,5 × 10,29 | 162.8 × 85.4 × 8.7 | 179,4 × 92,2 × 6,5 | 163,5 × 85,7 × 9,9 |
| Weight | 213 grams | 217 grams | 209 grams | 212 grams | 198 grams |
| Screen | 5,9 inches | 5,9 inches | 6 inches | 6,44 inches | 6 inches |
Screen
Magnificent. We talked about six inches IPS LCD with 1080p resolution embodying the Nokia ClearBlack technology and Gorilla Glass 2 for protection. The Nokia 1520 screen touches 10 in virtually every aspect. Faithful colors, excellent contrast and outstanding experience in foreign rounded a screen for a server becomes a reference in the sector.
More positives: great on viewing angles, when to avoid reflections (this is where ClearBlack, a value it works when you use the phone as a navigator in the car) and the options to configure the experience. In settings you can play the "Color Lumia profile" and change temperature and saturation to leave it to our liking.
You could put two objections to the screen of Nokia 1520: one is that pixel density is significantly below some competitors (367PPI compared to 440 for example S4) and that blacks are less faithful screens AMOLED . In my case I have not been able to find in the experience of three weeks with the phone just in case you have been able to perceive any of this in actual use. That said, the screen of the Nokia 1520 is the new benchmark for me not only in the category phablet but for any phone.
Camera
Before you try one made adjustment of expectations Camera 1520. Having been through the best of 2013 - the 1020 in my opinion - you have to understand that what Nokia has added to its phablet not play in the same league: the sensor size is lower (1/2.5 vs. 1/1.5 1020 or against the Sony Z1 1/2.3), reaches 20 versus 41 megapixels, no flash Xenon and the maximum aperture becomes 2.4 instead of 2.2 as losing some brightness.
That said, the camera features of 1520 deserve neither be neglected in any case. The flash LED is dual, the sensor is still great and the optics of ZEISS offers good optical stabilization hardware and maintains key aspects of Pureview technology as is the ability to achieve, such as being able to get images up 16 megapixels (19 in ratio 4:3) and another five smaller version (as Pureview allows offers 2x zoom with no loss).
By the way, come the RAW , the mobile registers as DNG (standard, any program of image processing is going to accept) that occupy about 20 megs each ... so you have a card with plenty of space is practically required if We will make use of this option.
The end result is part of what might be considered "
reasonably good but without excellence experience." Outdoors and in good light behavior 1520 is outstanding, but indoors or in low light suffers a lot and is far from the level reached by 1020, I would say that in some cases it has been a little below other franchises 2013 (these weeks with note 3 and sometimes I have been better off with the Samsung mobile).
Where if we see continuous improvement is the software section. The Nokia Pro Camera app is so well resolved by unifying the use "hit and go" with a Nokia so called "professional" and adjusts enough exposure. One still dreaming to play with all parameters (although convergence telephony / photography seems to not be there), but as it reaches what Nokia is offering the best of the market ... but one can expect miracles if you set the ISO to 100 or 200 (allows up to 4000) to not get pimples and looks like the shutter speed is set to slow that nothing prevents the release focused with minimal movement (including his own pulse).
Also of note is the Refocus application you offer a software solution to emulate what makes Lytro : have shot different approaches that we can choose a posteriori. The result, especially in static scenes such as landscapes, is reasonably good.
I will not say that the 1520 camera is loose, but it is not oriented to photography as was the 1020 Mobile and presumably will be below what we can expect from high-end in 2014. On Flickr I left September 1 with the original resolution. Below some pictures discussing the context.
As we see, in remarkable outdoor performance Lumia 1520. Good fidelity to the colors, good contrast.
In exterior with good or acceptable results even light with the Nokia 1520 will not disappoint.
Examples of good behavior at small distances.
We see Elmo from ISO 100 to ISO 800, here is somewhat different view of the scene because the Nokia 1520 shutter speed changes depending on the measurement.
Example of the 1520 suffers in low light and how the flash can come to the rescue
In the case of video recording at 1080p remarkable behavior, which also stands out with a high capacity when capturing sound.
Power and control: hardware and software
In 1520 power going with Windows Phone, overrun. The fluid system is at all times perfectly manages the multimedia and HD video - a must to get that screen - also without problems beyond the typical codecs. To run a mkv is necessary to use applications like Moliplayer Pro.
Gaming experience is also outstanding as shown in the video, both Asphalt 8 as Halo Spartan Assault have been perfect at all times.
On the hardware side note touches the battery in a phone of this size can only go to 3,400 mAh, even significant when you consider the cost of the six-inch high definition. For heavy use I'm afraid, again, he is within that day of autonomy indicates the limit if you forget to charge overnight, but with an average use performance transcends those 24 hours. Yes, bad news is that it takes ages to load.
On the issue of software we have everything: great news and regular disagreements. Let's start with the latter trying to dribble the debate always on "applications in Windows Phone" ... but I fear it will be inevitable.
On the plus side include the Nokia effort to offer good services and applications. The camera software - including Refocus - or that little gem that is falling Here in this section, which would add to them more and more and better focused on Windows Phone developers such as Creator 6 tag .
With the latter entered the less positive side. It is true that the most popular Windows Phone applications are or there is an alternative, but so is that on many occasions the developers are not giving this release the same priority as Android or iOs and found significantly worse proposals. Instagram is the case, but also Facebook or Whatsapp (see comments in the actual store of Microsoft).
This brings us to Windows Phone and its latest version. Those who have always liked this OS lately we are missing an argument to continue defending and Microsoft is slow when it competitive in something as basic as notifications. Android is well above last year and iOs jumped on that train ... while WP just not evolve at the same speed, still lacking a notification center which manage them. For advanced users accustomed to manage their absence is a clear loss of productivity and Microsoft should hurry to fix this, incorporating articulating or an equivalent alternative, because the live tiles are not.
That would add that to be leaders in phablets Nokia and Microsoft are going to need to be more flexible with the proposal of Windows Phone. The idea of leaving Redmond for Windows RT tablets may need to reconsider in light of the market is demanding products like 1520 to two shortcomings that do not help you get into proposals for large Android phones: the lack of widgets for the Android make more powerful use of the home screen of a terminal with this diagonal and resolution and the lack of options as multiwindow ago.
Nokia 1520, our Opinion
Once upon a time a mobile glued to a screen. Excellence in this aspect of the 1520 to justify some price to pay in dimensions and weight, on the other hand, will make many others who have found their limit closer to the five-inch six rejection.
The 1520 is a great phone in every dimension, but also very well finished and designed with the quality seal that is injecting its high-end Nokia for more than one year. Objections can come to consider that the platform offers the value you want to buy and that, this time, the camera does not reach the excellence that we saw in 1020.
Good time to market given that Windows Phone is having difficulty starting in the high range. To play the card of a more competitive price has prepared the Nokia Lumia 1320 that will soon pass the test in Engadget.
The Nokia Lumia 1520 we liked a lot, showed that Nokia is very willing to inject good applications and services to Windows Phone, but it still as competitive as Android in the six inches and facing a future unification would make sense that he had reflection with RT what to do with Windows. 1520 is a good product but not in the line of excellence that Nokia was marked last year with 1020.
To do this you must get the phablet experience involving not pay such a high price in weight and thickness, Windows Phone incorporate productivity injecting handling notifications and finish outlining his photographic proposal, when you bet entirely by her is differential.
Pro:
- Exceptional screen
- Design: color and finishes
- The cover tablet mode
- Power Gaming
Countra:
- The camera is not as good as in 1020
- Windows Phone needs to evolve in notifications and phablet experience
- Heavy and large in every aspect
