Review: Nokia Lumia 1520 – A Bigger Flagship from Nokia

Display and Battery Performance

Display & Performance

Nokia’s proprietary elements in their smartphones does offer a comprehensive feel of appearance and usability. That stays intact in Lumia 1520 with the full HD display of 1080p resolution on an ClearBlack IPS LCD display and better contrast ratio outdoors being good in sunlight readability when turned on in “Phone Settings”.

6” screen size diagonal with 1080p resolution full HD (1920 x 1080) provides the pixels density of 368 PPI. Nokia’s proprietary ClearBlack technology helps out the IPS LCD to deep blacks at pretty good level. Gorilla Glass 2 helps with protection of the screen as well the added polarizing filters helps minimizing glare.

The screen is sharp with the Windows Phone tiles covering within the 368 PPI that is more than enough that could be resolved by an eye. Viewing angles are also perfect unless you take it to extreme wide angle when the contrast shifts at some level.

When talking alone about the Lumia 1520 then the outdoor visibility and readability is moderate enough but when comparing, the competition is ahead of it. The AMOLED display would have helped it a lot to get better than what it is currently with an IPS display. I still haven’t seen sunlight contrast ratio better than Nokia 808 PureView but as we are just talking about phablets here. Galaxy Note III is far better outside in direct sunlight than Lumia 1520.

What else Nokia gives to the user to handle the display temperature and saturation in colours with is the Lumia Color profile. Plus Nokia Glance Screen uniquely gives a humble and usable feature to Windows Phone 8 devices.

Battery Performance

As told above, the battery is not removable by user in favor of the unibody of Lumia 1520. 3400mAh capacity is much for the device that, during our test period, could keep it up for long 2 days or even more with moderate regular use with single full charge. Without a SIM card inserted, the Lumia 1520 lived more than 4 days with single charge. Wi-Fi and all other features were kept enabled. What the phablet did during this span was, playing games like Asphalt 8, Temple Run 2, Subway Surfers etc. browsing internet and social networks on the browser and apps as well.

This actually justifies, having a battery with that big capacity to support bigger display of the phablet as well as the hardware inside it has. Officially Nokia rates it to keep up for 32 days on standby, 27 hours on 2G talk time, 25 hours on 3G, 124 hours on music playback, 10 hours on video playback, 13 hours on Wi-Fi browsing. I personally want to have idea of the time period for camera use while all all other features remains silent while on tour or something.

The international variant of Lumia 1520 also supports Qi-wireless charging as it’s built-in. You will need to have compatible wireless charger for that purpose. In US the AT&T variant of the phablet does not support wireless charging unless an add-on accessory back cover is used.

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Khurram Ali

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