NOKIA Lumia 1320 REVIEW

• Posted by T Ghosh February 13, 2014 - Filed in Technology - #Nokia  - 1,059 views

   

  Lumia 1520 is a high-end model, the recently unveiled Lumia is relatively more affordable with a price tag of Rs 23,999. It's 6-inch screen, which is pretty good by any measure. The screen has 720p resolution and features Nokia's ClearBlack Display technology and this combination works pretty well despite not offering 1080p. The colours look vibrant and saturated, with pretty crisp images and videos. You may notice a little pixilation, but only if you are reading ebooks from a very close distance.
  
  Lumia 1320's screen is, in fact, very good. We enjoyed the excellent contrast levels, great viewing angles and above-par sunlight legibility that it offers. The 6-inch panel is great for watching videos as well as reading ebooks and web pages.
  
  Nokia has been a little unimaginative with the looks of Lumia 1320. Basically, it looks like an oversized Lumia 625. It has the same curvy body as Lumia 625 and seems merely bigger in size; if you looked at the two models from afar, you will probably not be able to tell the two apart.

  Like other Nokia smartphones, Lumia 1320 runs on Windows Phone 8 operating system. The device comes preloaded with the recent Black and slightly older GDR3 updates. Both these updates make Windows Phone 8 a slightly better operating system, bringing features like true multitasking, more control over how the device behaves; better Glance Screen interface etc.
  
  The user interface has been tweaked to accommodate more Live Tiles on this phablet's big screen. Just like Lumia 1520, this model can also have up to six small Live Tiles on the home screen, up from four in other WP8 smartphones.

  Compared to other similarly-priced smartphones, it feels quite fast and runs smoothly. Powered by the dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 chipset with 1GB RAM, the device packs enough punch to handle all the apps in the Windows Phone ecosystem. We never experienced any lag or other such problems during the review period.
  
  In any case, WP8 is a smooth-running platform because of optimal resource utilization all round, so we didn't expect anything less from this device.
  
  The speaker is positioned on the back and delivers acceptable sound quality, but not enough to make the music-playing experience enjoyable.

  One of the biggest problems we saw with Lumia 1320 is the camera. We are unable to understand why a company like Nokia, which has a great pedigree of cameraphones, would use a 5MP camera in a handset costing Rs 24,000! Using this camera made some sense in a low-priced device like Lumia 625 (available at approximately Rs 16,000 online), but in a rather high-priced model, it simply seems baffling.
  
  That apart, we took some photos with Lumia 1320. The camera quality is below par