Nokia will be going all out with its first phablet, it seems, as leaked Lumia 1520
specs today show that the company is throwing the kitchen sink of what
it is capable to produce in mass quantities at the moment. It will be
the best-equipped Windows Phone ever, and the one that will introduce
the wonders of quad-core processors and Full HD displays to the platform
for the first time. Let's recap what we've heard on the hush-hush so
far about the Nokia Lumia 1520.
Design
First
off, we should be getting a 152 x 81 x 8.7 mm handset, which are pretty
good dimensions for a 6-incher, and the weight is clocked at 160g for
the exclusive AT&T version, while the global release will weigh a
tad more at 168g, as it will have a wireless charging coil built in.
We've seen the phone leaked in black, red and yellow already, but more
colors might be in store for it down the road. UPDATE: The phone also leaked in a cyan render, but whether or not this will stay just a render we'll find out for sure come October 22.
Nokia
has allegedly added a microSD card slot for storage expansions, which
is a good idea for a big screen phone, on which you are likely to keep
many videos for watching on the go, plus the phone's PureView camera
will entice to make footage of your own more often than usual. As for
the SIM card, it will likely be of the nano SIM type, judging also from
the piece on one of the leaked photos of the handset in the slideshow
below.
Specs
Screen
resolution of the 6" display will be expectedly 1080x1920 pixels Full
HD, or 367pi pixel density at your disposal. The rumored screen
technology is raising some eyebrows, as the leaked specs say it will be
an AMOLED display, and Full HD versions of those are likely only done by
Samsung for now, so Nokia might have made a strange bedfellow here.
It is also to carry a PureMotion HD+ technology, which, coupled with Nokia's ClearBlack
filter tech, means we will have a bright screen with excellent contrast
and reflectivity ratios, great viewing angles, vivid colors and ultra
fast refresh rates.
The processor that will be running the whole show is expected to be a quad-core Snapdragon 800,
clocked at the respectable 2 GHz, which would make the Lumia 1520 the
most powerful Windows Phone ever, coupled with its 2 GB of RAM. Sources
are claiming also a 64 GB variant, which seems unlikely if we are going
to get a microSD slot as well, but the 32 GB version is totally
plausible.
A beefy 3400 mAh battery is pegged to keep the Windows Phone 8.1
lights on, which is on the high side, even for a phablet, and should
allow for a pretty good endurance, especially in terms of talk time and
video playback. As any self-respecting smartphone with Snapdragon 800
chipset, the phone is likely to support most 4G/LTE networks you can
think of, too.
20.7 MP PureView camera
We've
arrived to the exclusive part of Nokia's first phablet, namely the
rumored 20.7 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, improved Panorama and
optical image stabilization. These specs alone should make it the best
camera on a phablet, but since the sensor is a scaled down version of the 41 MP monster in the Lumia 1020, it will also offer 1.8x lossless zoom in stills mode, and 4x for HD video capture.
The
maximum usable resolution is expected to be 18 MP in 4:3 aspect ratio,
meaning we will be getting an oval sensor like in the 1020 flagship. The
dual capture mode means you will be getting 5 MP images in automatic
mode with the pixel-binning technology that combines the information of
four or more pixels into a "perfect" one. There will be also a full 16
MP mode for the ultimate detail capture.
The
Nokia Camera app is said to come with improved saturation settings,
meaning we will have some exclusives on the software side of things with
the phone as well. Last but not least, the Lumia 1520 is listed to
arrive with not one or two but four HAAC microphones, meaning that we might have a winner in the sound recording aspect not only among phablets, but smartphones in general, too.
Price and release date
The Lumia 1520 phablet is expected to become official on October 22 at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi, and Nokia is already teasing it with new Glance Background screenshots
that show 15:20 as the hour. The AT&T exclusive for the company's
first phablet is to start the clock in the second week of November,
while global availability is scheduled for the beginning of December.
Pricing? That 6" Full HD AMOLED, the quad-core Snapdragon and the 20 MP
PureView camera with lossless zoom and OIS are unlikely to come cheap.
The phone is expected to command a premium phablet price of $299.99 on
an AT&T contract, while costing the flagship-worthy $699.99 without
carrier subsidies, which is said to be the global version tag as well.
General | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - all versions |
---|---|---|
3G Network | HSDPA | |
4G Network | LTE | |
SIM | Micro-SIM | |
Announced | Exp. announcement 2013, Q4 | |
Status | Rumored |
Body | Dimensions | 152 x 81 x 8.7 mm (5.98 x 3.19 x 0.34 in) |
---|---|---|
Weight | 168 g (5.93 oz) |
Display | Type | Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
---|---|---|
Size | 1080 x 1920 pixels, 6.0 inches (~367 ppi pixel density) | |
Multitouch | Yes |
Sound | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
---|---|---|
Loudspeaker | Yes | |
3.5mm jack | Yes |
Memory | Card slot | No |
---|---|---|
Internal | 32/64 GB, 2 GB RAM |
Data | GPRS | Yes |
---|---|---|
EDGE | Yes | |
Speed | HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL | |
WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot | |
Bluetooth | Yes | |
NFC | Yes | |
USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
Camera | Primary | 20 MP, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash |
---|---|---|
Features | PureView technology, geo-tagging, face detection, panorama | |
Video | Yes, 1080p@30fps, video light | |
Secondary | Yes |
Features | OS | Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Amber |
---|---|---|
Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 | |
CPU | Quad-core | |
Sensors | Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass | |
Messaging | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM | |
Browser | HTML5 | |
Radio | No | |
GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS | |
Java | No | |
Colors | Yellow, white, black, red | |
- SNS integration - Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic - MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player - MP4/DivX/XviD/H.264/H.263/WMV player - Organizer - Document viewer - Video/photo editor - Voice memo/command/dial - Predictive text input |
Battery | Non-removable Li-Ion 3400 mAh battery | |
---|---|---|
Stand-by | ||
Talk time |
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