To feel, appearance and processing quality:
The Nokia Lumia cost me "only" 455, was therefore almost paid compared to other providers), but it has yet to leave a certain expectation in mind when you almost do not get the new machine for under 550. (Except by importing etc.) So I was very excited when unpacking but how well it actually feels. I was not disappointed, the phone is super processed nothing creaks, squeaks or wobbles, everything feels very valuable and has convinced me right from the start. A word about the size: it is really big, but without being huge, to say: it is indeed difficult to use with one hand but that I already knew before that my right thumb is not a 6 "long and I never expected. BUT: It fits in my pocket (though just barely, but it fits) and is equipped with 8.7mm build thickness not too thick, so that it interferes in no way unpleasant or striking thing is clear in so many a woman it could be tight in the. skintight pants but what's handbags: D The back feels even though it is made of plastic very well to and the Lumia is good thanks to its rounded edges in hand Even the weight of 209g hear many unusual hard to.. but if you do then again lays out his hand and grabs his old smartphone feels this almost cheap to because it's so easy. In addition, if one wants to accommodate a 6 "touch screen and a 3200mAh battery that is strong to cope.
There, apart from the size, to which one must simply get used to me so no deductions. 5/5 stars
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To service and hardware equipment:
The last one can do with a hardware button photos again, of course, makes sense since Nokia has indeed built a smartphone exceptionally good camera. Here, the key is really useful and makes it easier to take pictures. The quality of the images of the quality of the camera and the built-in optics is accordingly very well, which should please especially amateur photographers and of course professionals is the ability to have to save the images in a RAW format and eg to edit in Photoshop without format-related losses , The rest of the equipment leaves nothing to be desired, since the performance of WP 8 is sufficient in all respects and still has reserve capacity. If you use the Nokia example for playing videos is the full application of large, sharp and bright displays to light, only gripe here is the default player of WP, because this does not allow the manual reels in the video you can only with the on-screen up-down buttons jump ever 30sec forward or backward. I find from MS solved poor because here a really, in my opinion important feature missing, which comes especially into play when you look bigger video and this interrupts briefly to reply to a message, for example. Because as soon as you switch back to the video is completed this simple, you have to load and look again. The installed battery keeps the Lumia surprisingly long alive, even not load 2 days and throughout WiFi and Mobile data and average use, ie surf n bit, pick up emails or ne Round Hill Climb Racing, all that were able to the battery until the forcing the evening of 3 day to its knees. The WiFi and cellular reception is good, I have better reception than with my previous phones, but this is simply the size and timeliness logical and I expected nothing else. The viewing angle dependency is important to me and has already made a positive impression, since one time show with such a huge smartphone quite something, or even a movie will look.
Here I wanted to start actually still pull off a star for the video service, but also with the 30 sec jumps to get there quite well, but what I disconnect a star that video is to be loaded and viewed from new when going out the video to another application and back changes. 4/5 stars
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For Windows Phone 8 in conjunction with the Lumia 1520:
The WP 8 is not perfect and you possibly can not always rely on that for everything already is an app has to cope with when you see that Microsoft is working hard on improvements and then also brings swiftly in the form of updates to the device and the selection of apps in the store is also greater by the day. What, for example, is almost perfect, is the interaction of Office, OneDrive, Hotmail and Nokia. Here you can see how it is run and that's truly amazing what MS has done here. What also works well to let the apps that are not all designed for the FHD resolution yes and are usually very well presented but no parts of the screen black or the like. Similarly, the "view" function has become very good. Here, the time and important notifications will appear in white on a black background, if you have your smartphone with ausgeschaltenem display in his hand. Here first praise: Keep it Microsoft!
However, I must also highlight the remaining weaknesses, which are:. The orientation may in some apps - part of MS itself - will not be changed to landscape what it is quite annoying in a 6 "large display One of the points at which definitely is therefore still room for improvement. The games from the store to be in the not too distant future, both on Windows 8 as well as to WP 8, the same, ie developers need to bring out only for a store, and there are 2 platforms. This shows once again how much potential is still hidden, as Microsoft already brings a lot of experience with and hopefully also integrated into WP. The reaction is therefore still very good if you can afford it, his cell phone often cross on edge and back rotate to landscape when the sometimes not so quite work like you want it.
Here, then, for the alignment problems a star deduction, but this is only a brief star. 4/5 stars
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Conclusion:
The Nokia Lumia 1520 at a price of 455 definitely good! There are little things that keep me from it as perfect to describe. Many are linked to the implementation of WP on the 1520 or in general with the WP, what gives me hope further that MS addresses this and therefore makes the Lumia a perfect smartphone.
The size is not everything as it is always so beautiful but the newspaper reads just much better photos / films can look better and also make games just a little more fun. Here I am apparently disagree with many of my friends / relatives there and mock it as "Milka" name because of its similarity in shape to a bar of chocolate.
PRO:
+ Large, sharp display
+ Very fast hardware
+ Strong battery
+ Excellent camera for a Smartphone
+ Always up to date software, thanks to Windows Phone (hopefully it will quickly grow up below)
+ View function (see above)
CONTRA:
- Windows Phone is still just yet in its infancy)
Buy recommendation:
I can not recommend this device first one and all, as everyone has their own preferences and priorities has what size, weight, price, appearance, performance, and so has concern. So if you sometimes want to try a bigger smartphone and also Windows Phone is not demonized, which I can highly recommend the Nokia Lumia really. It's just a super smartphone.
Comments on your order an imported from Hong Kong unit. It was the poor implementation of the German language and lack of speech recognition repeatedly mentioned in the comments, but I have been able to notice any of these problems ... After the first start I simply asked in German and Germany, then the German Sprackpaket and keyboard layout downloaded and installed and since then I have never once noticed that I do not have specific for Germany device or something. It works just fine without that I had to play a German firmware or something similar.
