Nokia Lumia 1020 Review

Nokia Lumia 1020 is a very solid device launched in 2013, with an extremely powerful 1500 megahertz Dual-Core processing unit, a 4.5" multi touch capacitive screen, a 41 MP back-facing camera and a 1.2 megapixels front side camera. We will get a better idea about this cellphone's characteristics when we get into more details.

Nokia decided to power this cellphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 chip, including a very powerful 1500 MHz Dual-Core processor and a large 2 GB RAM. Graphic rendering often uses lots of processor time, so it uses an extra 400 megahertz Adreno 225 GPU to take some work out of the CPU. This cellphone has a 32 GB awesome internal memory and while it doesn't include a slot for SD memory cards, it it is more than enough to install tons of applications, games, songs, pictures and videos without having to worry about how much memory is left.

This phone is quite a compact cellphone, taking into consideration it packs a 4.5 inches screen and it only has 5.13 inches long and 2.81 inches wide. This cellphone's thickness (0.41 inches) is a little far from nowadays standards, but it still feels comfortable in the hand. Apparently Nokia forgot about optimizing the weight in this 5.57 ounces cellphone. Regarding its design, the Lumia 1020 is made of Polycarbonate. Nokia is offering this cellphone in 3 different color options: black, yellow and white.

This cellphone is equipped with two cameras, a 41 MP back side camera and a 1.2 megapixels front-facing camera. the Lumia 1020's back side camera has an aperture of F2.2 so it can capture clear pictures even in poorly lit environments. It is capable of shooting videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 frames per second. In addition, the camera features some interesting features: auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, optical image stabilization and geo tagging.

Nokia equipped this phone with a high-tech 4.5" screen, and a resolution of 1280 x 768 , which makes everything look completely perfect. This screen uses AMOLED capacitive technology, with a brightness of 600 candela/m² and allows multi-touch gestures.

This cellphone packs a medium capacity 2000 mAh replaceable battery, which is quite poor for a consuming device like this. Nokia informs a talk time of 19.1 hours and a stand by time of 384 hours for this device.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 has wifi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE fast internet connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, a lower speed 4G technology and 3G fast connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a Micro SIM card to connect to GSM networks.

This phone also comes with plenty of useful features such as Wireless charging compatibility, NFC, Bluetooth (3.0) and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 is not very convinient considering it is sold for $ 315, while some similar cellphones are offerred way cheaper than that. This phone is definitely a great option for you if you will use it for gaming, will use it mainly for social networks, want this cellphone to take tons of pictures or will use it as a work cellphone. The Lumia 1020 sells with Quick guide, Nokia Headset WH-208, SIM Door Key, Nokia Charging and Data Cable CA-190CD and Nokia AC-60 microUSB Charger.