Mobile phones Nokia Lumia 1020 Review

Introduction and design

To analysis the Nokia Lumia 1020 is to analysis a bunched camera that happens to accept some buzz appearance tacked assimilate it. Essentially, you would alone buy this affair for its 41MP PureView camera with Xenon flash. If you weren't already a Nokia fan, why buy Windows Buzz 8?


When we aboriginal heard about the 41MP smartphone camera in the Nokia PureView 808, our antecedent thoughts were, "What a abashment to put such a nice camera on a Symbian device." Now that the camera is accompanying with a hardly bigger platform, we can breathe a baby blow of relief. If you're accustomed with the Lumia band of phones, the 1020 shouldn't attending that adopted to you. Its curvature and all-embracing appearance are evocative of the Lumia 920, and the abate Lumia 820.

On the face of the device, you'll acquisition a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 touchscreen display. The larboard bend of the device, if you're adverse the screen, is apple-pie and chargeless of any buttons or ports. The appropriate ancillary has a aggregate rocker, power/standby button and a committed camera button.

At the abject of the accessory you'll acquisition the micro-USB charging anchorage and speaker/microphone. Up top, there is a SIM agenda tray, 3.5mm angle jack and addition microphone for babble cancellation.


The aback of the accessory is conceivably the a lot of noticeable, with its ample camera module, Xenon flash, LED ablaze and camera lens. It protrudes abundant from the accessory that it never lays collapsed on its back.

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Even after the beefy camera, it's a abundant accessory as far as avant-garde smartphones go. It's not the slimmest or lightest by any means, but it is somehow hardly slimmer and lighter than the Lumia 920.

To accord you an abstraction of its dimensions, this Lumia buzz is 130.4mm tall, 71.4mm advanced and 10.4mm blubbery and weighs 158 grams. As you can see, it's appealing advanced and aggrandized by today's smartphone standards.


Despite its admeasurement and weight, you eventually get acclimated to action your way about the device. It's the camera that makes it catchy to hold. Do you accumulate your fingers about it, or anchor the buzz appropriate over the camera? Decisions, decisions.

Our analysis archetypal came in matte black, and it's hardly added glace than its bright predecessors. The Lumia 1020 aswell comes in chicken and white.


For those of you absorbed in internals, there is a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB on-board accumulator and a 2,000 mAh battery.

Interface and performance

Windows Buzz 8 resides central the Nokia Lumia 1020, and if you've anytime acclimated Windows Buzz before, it will be abundantly accustomed to you. This adaptation of Windows Buzz 8 is alleged Amber, accessible alone to Nokia devices, and it's the latest adaptation of the Microsoft platform. It adds a few chic new appearance to the software, but it's not a above check of the belvedere or anything.


You can do new things with the Amber amend like bifold tap the affectation to about-face it on, or cast your buzz over to blackout it. And if you adulation customizing your device, there are a scattering of new wallpapers added. Otherwise, it's just apparent old Windows Buzz 8. The reside asphalt arrangement works appealing accurately to accord you app updates and any added accordant advice you ability wish to see. The tiles are aswell customizable in size, so you can accomplish them ample or baby and align them into clusters if you compress them down.

If you bash to the appropriate from the capital screen, you'll see a account of all your apps, including the settings. It's a mostly automatic platform, but what it's actively defective is third-party app support. A lot of of the big-name apps are on Windows Buzz 8, like Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Foursquare and more. But it's aswell missing abundantly accepted apps like Instagram and Vine. This abridgement of app abutment is what usually turns humans off from adopting the Windows Buzz platform.

Another hardly missing affection is a centralized notification system. With iOS and Android, you can see all your notifications and updates in a drop-down pane, admitting Windows Buzz 8 leaves you academic with the reside asphalt system. If you get a notification for an app that isn't anon aural appearance of the display, you accept to annal about just to accomplish abiding you haven't absent anything.

In agreement of accustomed performance, I accomplished no lag or hiccups at all. Well, added than the camera, but we're traveling to awning that issue. Scrolling through the home page or aural apps is smooth, clashing the Android acquaintance on some handsets. The apps and tiles accept air-conditioned animations, too, if you're aperture or closing them or watching your notifications.

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