Nokia Lumia 1320 Windows Mobile Phone Review

Nokia Lumia 1320 Windows Mobile Phone Review

Nokia launched the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320 back in October in an event in Abu Dhabi. Along with these phablets the company also launched its first tablet, the Lumia 2520. Today we are going to review the Lumia 1320 phablet.

The Lumia 1320 is one big slab that has a 6-inch HD display, a Dual-Core processor, 1GB RAM and a mammoth 3,400mAH battery. This is one handsome device that features a very tough body. Lets take a deeper look at the device to see if it really delivers what it promises?

Here is the full review of the Lumia 1320

Design

The Nokia Lumia 1320 reminds of the Lumia 625 launched last year. It comes with the same design pattern and removable rear panel. This is a full sized phablet, so I wont even talk about one hand usability, its just not possible on this one. It is a very big device and yet manages to be slim with just 9.8mm thickness. It is slightly heavier than other Lumia phones, it has a nice matt finish rear panel and the display does a great job with minimum reflections.

Display

Display is the USP of this smartphone, Nokia has also incorporated a 6-inch display on the Lumia 1520 but that’s a different device altogether. Talking about the Lumia 1320 display, it measures 6-inches diagonally and comes with a HD resolution of 1280x720 pixels with a density of 245 Pixels Per Inch. The display on this device offers the best outdoor visibility and sunlight visibility, its very bright with amazing color reproduction. The colors appear natural and true by the tone, there is no over saturation of colors.

Hardware

The Lumia 1320 comes with decent hardware, it has a Dual-Core snapdragon processor clocked at a speed of 1.7GHz per core. There is also an Adreno 305 GPU accompanying the processor for faster rendering and off loading minor tasks from primary processor. It equips the standard set of sensors which are Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity sensor and Compass.

Camera, Media & Connectivity

Nokia is looked at with lot expectations with regards to camera on smartphones, later last year the company launched the Lumia 1020 a camera centric phone with a massive 41MP camera on board. The Lumia 1520 launched along with Lumia 1320 comes with a 20MP camera, keeping these giant camera phone you might feel the Lumia 1320 is pretty low on camera specs. The Lumia 1320 comes with a mere 5MP camera on board for photography and also accommodates a VGA resolution front facing camera for video calling. The 5MP rear camera is capable of shooting 1080P HD videos @30FPS.

This smartphone has the Windows Phone Apps+Games store which has more than 1,20,000 certified applications and games abode. The Windows app store has already started getting popular Android and IOS games like Subway surfers, Temple Run 1 & 2 and now Flappy bird is on its way to windows store. So we can expect the Windows Apps database to go up in the coming years.

This is one of the few devices in India to come with 4G LTE connectivity in the budget segment. There is also support for 3G and 2G network on HSDPA and Edge bands. It uses the standard micro USB port for PC connectivity and data transfer.

For Rs 22,500 its surely one of the best devices in the market right now but there are a few draw backs with this device. The Lumia 1320 has a low resolution camera and does not have a very large apps and games database. Whereas the Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 has a more powerful processor, higher RAM, better cameras and more applications. I suggest one to check out the Galaxy Grand 2 smartphone also before buying the Lumia 1320.