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Tech: Nokia announces Lumia 1520, 6", 1080p, 20mp camera
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Nokia announces Lumia 1520, 6", 1080p, 20mp camera
Nokia announces the Lumia 1520, a 6-inch display with full 1080p display
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Smartphones, especially Android and Windows Phone devices, have been growing rapidly in size over the past few years, from devices with mere 4-inch displays to those with screens almost six inches in size. Today Nokia is announcing its largest devices yet. The new Lumia 1520 (along with its low-end counterpart, the Lumia 1320) features a massive 6-inch display, making it the largest Windows Phone ever released. The 1520 is also the first Windows Phone with a 1080p screen and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 processor.
The 1520 retains Nokia's familiar design language — it's a single piece polycarbonate design that looks like a bigger version of the Lumia 720 — and build quality. But when you have a 6-inch display, there's no getting around having a big phone, and the 1520 is downright massive: it's 3.36 inches wide, 6.4 inches tall, and weighs 7.37 ounces, despite being only 0.34 inches thick. You can hold it with one hand, but for the most part, this is a two-handed device. The new LCD display is bright and vibrant, and as is the case with most Nokias, it has great viewing angles and deep blacks.
Windows Phone 8 has never performed poorly, even on low-end hardware, but the 1520's quad-core, 2.26GHz processor and 2GB of RAM let it scream. Nokia notes that while most users won't notice the added horsepower in basic tasks, it is beneficial when editing video or playing intensive games. We've seen this chip in the LG G2 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 already, both running Android, and it has proven to be quite the performer. The 1520 also has a 3,400mAh battery, built-in wireless charging, and support for LTE networks.
Despite having a large, almost tablet-sized screen, the 1520 doesn't have a stylus or other form of input apart from the standard touchscreen. When asked about the lack of a stylus, Nokia said that it didn't see a need for it for the use cases for this phone, and that it was not worth the tradeoff in size required to accommodate the stylus in the phone's body. Nokia is introducing a flip cover for the 1520 that turns into a stand for the phone, much like Apple's Smart Cover for the iPad. It does not turn the phone's display on when you open it, however.
"The 1520 has a 20-megapixel version of Nokia's PureView camera technology"
For the camera, Nokia is using a new, lower-resolution version of its 41-megapixel PureView sensor with 20 megapixels. It has optical image stabilization and the PureView capabilities of zooming in after you take a picture without a loss of quality. The PureView zoom level is limited to 2x on the 1520, as opposed to the 3x zoom on the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020. Nokia also revealed that the long awaited official Instagram app will be available for Windows Phone in the coming weeks.
- Windows Phone 8
- 6” full HD 1080p LCD, ClearBlack, Sunlight readability, Super sensitive touch, Gorilla Glass 2
- PureView 20 MP, ZEISS optics,OIS, 2x lossless zoom, oversampling, dual LED flash
- Video 1080p @ 30 fps full HD video with optical image stabilization
- 4G LTE
- Nokia Music for unlimited streaming of ad-free music
- Free global HERE Maps and HERE Drive+, HERE Transit available in the Store
- Microsoft Office built-in
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (2.2GHz Quad Core)
- 3400 mAh (integrated) with built-in wireless charging
- Yellow, white, black, glossy red
http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-announces-lumia-1520
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Quad core, 6-inch, full 1080p display, 20mp camera, wireless charting, Instagram, Vine, etc.
What now, haters?
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They need to start giving them proper names tbh; it's holding them back.
My friends immediately lose interested when I say I have a Lumia 920 
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They need to start giving them proper names tbh; it's holding them back.
My friends immediately lose interested when I say I have a Lumia 920 |
Nokia are back to their usual 4-digit naming scheme with this one. Remember their most popular phones: 3310, 1100, 7650, 6600, etc.
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Originally posted by fabbriche
Nokia are back to their usual 4-digit naming scheme with this one. Remember their most popular phones: 3310, 1100, 7650, 6600, etc.
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Ancient history, they need to get with the times. Calling phones, especially smartphones with things like product numbers is so..."meh" to the public. At least in the US
edit - and i literally recognize not a single one of those you listed by number lmao
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Updated the OP
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Originally posted by Newt
Ancient history, they need to get with the times. Calling phones, especially smartphones with things like product numbers is so..."meh" to the public. At least in the US
edit - and i literally recognize not a single one of those you listed by number lmao
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You don't recognize the legend 1100, the best selling phone of all time with 250million units sold???
Or the legend 3310, her 126 million units sold and internet fame as an unbreakable device?
Sis...
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Originally posted by Newt
Ancient history, they need to get with the times. Calling phones, especially smartphones with things like product numbers is so..."meh" to the public. At least in the US
edit - and i literally recognize not a single one of those you listed by number lmao
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The all-number nomenclature is brilliantly simple, the higher the number, the higher-end the handset, and the higher the price. People in general understand the logic behind ‘the bigger the number, the more you get’ philosophy. And they learn to know roughly what to expect from a model using its number as a reference. Nokia makes a lot of phones so this naming convention is the easiest for consumers to remember and distinguish phones from each other. And those phones I've mentioned are the best-selling mobile phones of all time. But I won't be surprised if you don't recognize them since you're from the US.
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They need better colors.
Yellow is so ugly. 5C yellow >>
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omgfggnfjnrg
They're already announcing a new model? What happened to the 925 and the 1020? I shouldn't be complaining tho 
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omgfggnfjnrg
They're already announcing a new model? What happened to the 925 and the 1020? I shouldn't be complaining tho |
This is a larger model to expand their lineup (ala Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II), not intended to be a replacement for the 92X series.
Replacement for the more mainstream 92X series will come soon I'd imagine. It seems like they announce those devices in November (90X series in Nov 2011, 92X in Nov 2012) so we could see the next gen sometime next month, with it rolling out early in the new year.
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
This is a larger model to expand their lineup (ala Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II), not intended to be a replacement for the 92X series.
Replacement for the more mainstream 92X series will come soon I'd imagine. It seems like they announce those devices in November (90X series in Nov 2011, 92X in Nov 2012) so we could see the next gen sometime next month, with it rolling out early in the new year.
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Then it'll be completely different! 
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Originally posted by Newt
They need to start giving them proper names tbh; it's holding them back.
My friends immediately lose interested when I say I have a Lumia 920 |
Quote:
Originally posted by Newt
Ancient history, they need to get with the times. Calling phones, especially smartphones with things like product numbers is so..."meh" to the public. At least in the US
edit - and i literally recognize not a single one of those you listed by number lmao
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Originally posted by Newt
Ancient history, they need to get with the times. Calling phones, especially smartphones with things like product numbers is so..."meh" to the public. At least in the US
edit - and i literally recognize not a single one of those you listed by number lmao
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iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
iPhone 5c
iPad
iPad 2
iPad 3
iPad 4
iPad Mini
 and they are the best selling smartphones and tablets in the world. Some people just shade and shade.
And in the first place, Nokia currently has 2 lines of phones the Asha and the Lumia just like Samsung has the Note and the S.
Galaxy Note
Galaxy Note 2
Galaxy Note 3
Galaxy S
Galaxy S1
Galaxy S2
Galaxy S3
Galaxy S4
It's the same ****.
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Originally posted by gloamingtheplain
They need better colors.
Yellow is so ugly. 5C yellow >>
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Not with this butter stick
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Originally posted by jomarr
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
iPhone 5c
iPad
iPad 2
iPad 3
iPad 4
iPad Mini
and they are the best selling smartphones and tablets in the world. Some people just shade and shade.
And in the first place, Nokia currently has 2 lines of phones the Asha and the Lumia just like Samsung has the Note and the Galaxy. |
It's actually,
iPad
iPad 2
The new iPad
iPad with Retina Display
They should have used iPad 1 - 4 though. I wonder what they will call the next iPad.
The newer iPad with Retina Display ft. Fingerprint Technology 
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Originally posted by gloamingtheplain
It's actually,
iPad
iPad 2
The new iPad
iPad with Retina Display
They should have used iPad 1 - 4 though. I wonder what they will call the next iPad.
The newer iPad with Retina Display ft. Fingerprint Technology |
Well then they couldn't blast on Nokia's name because those are lame ass names. 
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Not with this butter stick
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It looked good in the store 
Better than that Primary Yellow color. Saying that though, Yellow is a difficult color to make look good.
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Originally posted by jomarr
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
iPhone 5c
iPad
iPad 2
iPad 3
iPad 4
iPad Mini
and they are the best selling smartphones and tablets in the world. Some people just shade and shade.
And in the first place, Nokia currently has 2 lines of phones the Asha and the Lumia just like Samsung has the Note and the S.
Galaxy Note
Galaxy Note 2
Galaxy Note 3
Galaxy S
Galaxy S1
Galaxy S2
Galaxy S3
Galaxy S4
It's the same ****. |
How is that the same as
520
625
800
810
820
920
925
1020
1520
exactly
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Originally posted by jomarr
Well then they couldn't blast on Nokia's name because those are lame ass names. |
The iPhone naming is flawless though.
It's like their Mac line up.
MacBook Pro (Early 2006)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2006)
MacBook Pro (Late 2006)
MacBook Pro (Early 2007)
etc.
Steve, what were you thinking 
Before the MacBook it was:
iBook G3 (Clamshell)
iBook G3 (Snow)
iBook G4 [I Still Use This ]
etc. Flawless naming 
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