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<span style="color: lime;">Good</span></h2>
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<li>Great high-definition screen</li>
<li>Attractive, sturdy design</li>
<li>Powerful processor</li>
<li>Good battery life</li>
<li>Decent camera</li>
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<span style="color: red;">Bad</span></h2>
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<li>Enormous size won't be to everyone's taste</li>
<li>Windows Phone app store is still very poorly stocked</li>
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<li>Should I buy the Nokia Lumia 1520?</li>
<li>Design and build quality</li>
<li class="mb-0">Display</li>
<li>Software and processor</li>
<li>Camera</li>
<li>Battery</li>
<li class="mb-0">Conclusion</li>
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Not happy with pumping out the best camera phone in the business in the form of the Lumia 1020,
 Nokia now wants to show it can still play a blinder on the specs front 
too. A recent update to Windows Phone brought support for Full HD 
displays and quad-core processors, allowing Nokia to finally stuff the 
most cutting-edge tech into its phones.<br />

The Lumia 1520 is the first of Nokia's phones to take advantage of 
the update, packing a whopping 6-inch Full HD display, a 2.2GHz 
quad-core processor, 4G and a 20-megapixel camera -- making it the most 
technologically advanced phone Nokia has made to date.<br />

Nokia will be announcing the price and release date of this 
super-phone on Monday, but it's expected to set you back around £500, 
SIM-free. Meanwhile, Carphone Warehouse has started preorders -- you can get it free from £38 per month on a two-year Vodafone contract.<br />

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Should I buy the Nokia Lumia 1520?</h2>
The Nokia Lumia 1520's bold, Full HD display makes the phone a great 
choice for movies on the move. Its processor is powerful, its battery 
puts up a good fight and the camera isn't at all bad either. Oh, and it 
looks nice. At 6 inches however, the 1520 is a giant beast of a mobile 
that really won't suit you if you're just looking for a good all-round 
phone. <br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520 front" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40003186/image1/440x330-nokia-lumia-1520.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">The Lumia 1520 looks good, and has a huge 6-inch Full HD display.</b></div>
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If you're looking for a more pocketable Windows Phone mobile, check out the metal-edged Nokia Lumia 925 or the Lumia 1020
 with its phenomenal camera. Bear in mind too that while Windows Phone 
looks good and is fun to use, it has a pitiful app store compared to 
Android.<br />

If you're keen on big screens and want a host of apps to display on them, Samsung's Galaxy Note 3
 is a solid choice. It too packs a Full HD display and a potent chip, 
but also comes with a stylus for handwriting your own notes.<br />

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Design and build quality</h2>
The Lumia 1520 is Nokia's biggest smart phone to date, measuring 
163mm long, 85mm wide and 8.7mm thick. By using small bezels, Nokia 
hasn't wasted any space around the screen, but even so, the phone is an 
absolute goliath. <br />

The 5-inch Samsung Galaxy S4
 measures 136mm long and even that is too big for some. It's very 
difficult to use with one hand -- I found it almost impossible to 
stretch my thumb to the far corners when holding it as I would a phone. 
I'm not going to say it's "too big" as that is of course subjective and 
depends on what you're looking for in a device. What I will say, 
however, is that if you just want a regular phone, the 1520 almost 
certainly isn't going to suit. Instead, check out Nokia's Lumia 925.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520 back" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40003186/image2/440x330-nokia-lumia-1520-2.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">This huge phone is Nokia's biggest yet.</b></div>
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It makes sense that the Note 3 is so huge as its included stylus lets
 you use the phone as a notebook, turning it into a valuable work tool. 
The Lumia 1520's skills instead lie more in displaying videos.<br />

The 1520 shares most of the design cues with other phones in Nokia's 
Lumia range. Its body is made up of a single piece of polycarbonate, 
which, although plastic, has a very solid construction. It feels very 
sturdy to hold and there's no unpleasant flex or creaking in the 
chassis. It looks good too, with its bright colours and rounded edges, 
standing out from the usual black and grey shades found on other phones.<br />

On the edges you'll find a nano-SIM tray (the extra-small SIM card you'll find on the iPhone 5),
 a 3.5mm headphone jack, power and volume buttons and a dedicated camera
 shutter button. There's a generous 32GB of storage, which you can 
expand with a microSD card.<br />

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Display</h2>
The 1520 is the first Windows Phone device to boast a Full HD 
display, thanks to a recent update to the software that supports higher 
resolutions. Spread over its 6-inch display, the display has a density 
of 367 pixels per inch, slightly beating the 334ppi of the Lumia 1020.<br />

It results in a screen that's very sharp, with crisp edges on the 
large, colourful homescreen tiles and very clear text in Web pages. High
 definition photos and videos look great and the resolution is 
particularly useful if you're working with Excel spreadsheets in the 
Microsoft Office app.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520 display" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40003186/image5/440x330-nokia-lumia-1520-5.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">The display is sharp and crisp with great colours.</b></div>
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It has great colours too, thanks to deep black levels, which provide 
rich contrast. The colours remain punchy, without looking oversaturated 
-- something the similarly-sized Galaxy Note 3 can suffer from at times.
 Mix in the good viewing angles and its low reflectivity (making it 
easier to view under bright lights), and the 1520's display is one of 
the best you'll find on a big phone.<br />
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Software and processor</h2>
The Lumia 1520 comes with the latest version of Windows Phone. The 
first thing you'll notice about the software is the extra column of 
icons on the homescreen. It allows for more apps and information from 
live tiles to be displayed at once, which makes sense on a phone this 
size.<br />

Elsewhere, the interface is much the same as it is on any of Nokia's 
other Lumias. The homescreen tiles are clear and easy to read and a 
swipe to the left takes you into the app list to browse your collection,
 listed alphabetically. You can resize the homescreen icons and move 
them around to make sure that your most crucial tools are right where 
you need them, and the extra column lets you sit up to six app icons 
across one row.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-home.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">The homescreen can show three columns of tiles, in order to make full use of that whopping screen.</b></div>
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One of my favourite aspects of Windows Phone is the People hub, which
 combines all your social network contacts into one place, allowing you 
to see all updates -- as well as post simultaneously to them all -- from
 the hub, without having to jump into different apps.<br />

Windows Phone combines the simplicity, minimalist layout and ease of 
use of iOS with the customisability of Android. Sounds like an ideal 
solution, but it's not perfect. The main issue that plagues the software
 is the distinct lack of apps in the app store. While some good titles 
-- Spotify, Netflix, Skype -- are available, many big-name services are 
still missing.<br />

If developers even do bother to write apps for Windows Phone, it 
tends to receive them much later than Android or iOS. Vine has only just
 made it to the store and Instagram has literally appeared in the last 
day. While the situation is improving, it's happening at a glacial pace.
 If you're keen on adding new services and tools to your phone or love 
checking out new games, Windows Phone really isn't going to suit you.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-maps.jpg" /><br />
<div style="padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; width: 440px;">
<b class="v1">Nokia's maps and satellite navigation software are handy additions.</b></div>
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Nokia has bundled a bunch of its own apps to help plug the holes 
though. Its maps software is great, providing a wealth of local business
 information -- as well as letting you view nearby points of interest 
around you in an augmented reality view. Its Transit app shows live 
information about local public transport services and Here Drive gives 
turn-by-turn GPS satellite navigation, complete with downloadable maps 
for offline use.<br />

A new addition is Nokia Storyteller, which lets you view your photos 
organised into groups (based on time and location taken), letting you 
annotate the pictures and easily view them on a map. For reminiscing 
about your holiday, Storyteller could be a very useful tool.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-storyteller.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">The Storyteller app is hardly groundbreaking, but it's an attractive way of viewing sets of photos.</b></div>
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The Lumia 1520 packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 
clocked at a mighty 2.2GHz. The latest Windows Phone update brought with
 it support for quad-core processors, but I'm not exactly sure this 
level of power is necessary just yet. With such a lack of apps, there's 
very little that can challenge the processor right now -- it's like 
buying a Ferrari but only ever taking it to the shops and back.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-asphalt.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">Asphalt
 8 is probably the most demanding app you can find for Windows Phones 
right now. Thankfully, the 1520 handled it without trouble.</b></div>
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It does at least make swiping around the interface very swift. 
There's zero delay in opening apps and menus and the camera starts up 
quickly too. I found the camera on the Lumia 1020 a little sluggish, but
 the 1520 has no such problem. High-definition video playback is handled
 well and racing game <i>Asphalt 8</i> played very smoothly, with high frame rates.<br />

<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="camera"></a><h2>
Camera</h2>
The back of the phone is home to a 20-megapixel camera. That's a 
lower resolution than the ludicrous 41 megapixels of the 
photography-focused Lumia 1020, and the sensor size is physically 
smaller, meaning it can't take in as much light. The 1020 is a superb 
camera phone -- probably the best around -- so should still be on your 
shopping list if photography is your chief concern.<br />

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<a href="http://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-camera.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520 camera test" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/nokia-lumia-1520-uploads/nokia-lumia-1520-camera-inline.jpg" /></a><br />
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<b class="v1">Nokia Lumia 1520 camera test (click image to enlarge).</b></div>
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It still packs loads of megapixels though, along with high-quality 
Carl Zeiss optics, so I was hoping for great image quality and I wasn't 
disappointed. On my test shot, the 1520 achieved a very nice exposure of
 the autumn light over St Paul's Cathedral. I found several of my images
 had some blue colour cast -- the white balance seemed to err on the 
colder side -- but that's easily countered by changing the white balance
 settings.<br />

Quality is very high too. Even at full screen, there's plenty of 
detail to be seen on the fine brickwork on the opposite buildings. The 
high resolution of the phone allows you to digitally zoom in to the 
scene without losing quality -- something that is a particular skill of 
the super-high resolution Lumia 1020.<br />

Nokia has a bunch of apps for camera use too. As well as the 
standard, no-nonsense camera app, you'll find Nokia Pro Cam, which gives
 you manual control over settings like white balance and shutter speed. 
Separate apps for Panorama and animated photos exist too. While there's 
plenty to keep a shutterbug happy, it's a little frustrating to have to 
keep switching into different apps each time. An all-encompassing 
photography app would be good to see in the future.<br />

<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="battery"></a><h2>
Battery</h2>
Nokia has filled the 1520's enormous body with a whopping great 
3,400mAh battery, promising up to 25 hours of talktime on 3G. That's a 
very impressive figure, but keep in mind that that will be under optimal
 conditions so your own times will vary, depending on how you use it.<br />

In my own tests I found the battery to be pretty good though. With 
medium-intensity use (a bit of gaming, sending and receiving some 
emails, streaming a bit of Netflix), I found it still had plenty of 
juice at the end of the working day after being taken off charge first 
thing in the morning.<br />

If you use it cautiously -- keep the brightness down and avoid 
demanding tasks like gaming -- then you shouldn't struggle to get 
through the whole day and even have some power remaining the next 
morning. With regular, less careful use, you'll probably need to give it
 a charge overnight to ensure you don't run out of power before lunch 
the next day.<br />

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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 1520 side" src="http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40003186/image3/440x330-nokia-lumia-1520-3.jpg" /><br />
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<b class="v1">This is an enormous and potentially cumbersome phone, but its screen, camera and quality make it a good option despite that.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="conclusion"></a><h2>
Conclusion</h2>
The Nokia Lumia 1520 is colourful, well made, has a brilliant screen,
 good battery life and a good camera, all of which make a solid phone 
all round. It is enormous and cumbersome though, which means it won't 
suit everyone's taste, and its Windows Phone operating system still 
suffers from a poorly stocked app store.<br />
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