Nokia has always had a reputation for building solid, comfortable phones, and the Lumia range has a well-deserved reputation for feeling good. With one important proviso, the phone feels very nice in the hand. It's hard to overstate how big this thing is One slight novelty for a high-end Lumia: adjacent to the SIM card slot (on the left, rather than the top, and demanding an oh-so-tiny nano-SIM) is a microSD slot. The white phone is, and I believe the black and yellow phones also are, matte finish. The yellow and red phones have black buttons. Nokia's minor stylistic variations will also continue: the black and white phones, for example, have body colored buttons. It'll be available in white, black, red, and yellow, though I imagine that the fine (which is to say, infuriating) tradition of some colors only being available from some carriers will continue.

The rear sports a small camera bulge for its 20MP camera while nowhere near as pronounced as the lump on the back of the 41MP Lumia 1020, it's not flat.

Like the many Lumia phones that went before it, it's a polycarbonate unibody with a black pillow of glass on the front, and it has the usual Windows Phone buttons (volume rocker, power, half-press-to-focus camera) down the right hand side. It is, as far as I can tell, the first Windows Phone with 802.11ac Wi-Fi.Īnd it's the first Windows Phone that doubles up as a coffee table, or, in a pinch, a spare wing for a 747.Īs a piece of hardware, the Lumia 1520 is pretty much what you'd expect of a Lumia with a six inch screen. It's the first Windows Phone with a Snapdragon 800 processor, which in turn makes it the first quad core Windows Phone. It's the first Windows Phone with a six inch screen. It's the first Windows Phone with a 1920×1080 screen. The Lumia 1520 represents a number of Windows Phone firsts. There are apartments in Manhattan that boast less square footage than the Lumia 1520.

I know it's not the first super-sized smartphone, but it's the first I've ever used in any meaningful capacity and it's just vast. So here's the thing about the Lumia 1520. Windows Phone 8 Update 3 with Nokia 'Black' updateĭual Band 802.11b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 including Low Energy, GPS, GLONASSĢ0MP rear camera with OIS, f/2.4 aperture, 1.3MP front camera Lee Hutchinson reader comments 158 Specs at a glance: Nokia Lumia 1520

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