All About the Nokia Lumia 1020 Smartphone

The Nokia Lumia 1020 is one of the newest devices from mobile phone developer Nokia. Although Nokia has lost much of their dominance of the mobile phone market over the years, their new smartphones are beginning to carve out a new chunk of the market for the Finnish company. The Lumia 1020 is one of their most promising smartphones yet. Let's take a closer look at this phone so you can see if it is the right smartphone for you.

Form Factor

The Lumia 1020 is far from being the smallest or lightest smartphone on the market. Its dimensions are 130.4 x 71.4 x 10.4 mm. This size makes it thicker, taller and wider than a lot of its competitors. It weighs in at a beefy 158 g.

Display

Like Samsung's Galaxy S4, the Nokia Lumia 1020 features a high-res AMOLED touchscreen with multi-touch. It has a 768 x 1280 pixels resolution. At 4.5 inches, it has a pixel density of 332 ppi. Although this resolution is lower than the Galaxy S4, it is slightly higher than that of the iPhone 5's display.

Performance

The Nokia Lumia 1020 is a surprisingly high performing phone. It features 2 GB of RAM, which is double the memory that is offered by the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S. It also has a 1.5 GHz dual-core snapdragon processor. Although the Lumia 1020 has very impressive specs, it may be difficult to compare it to other phones in real life due to the differences in operating systems.

Storage

The Nokia Lumia 1020 falls in the middle of the field in terms of storage capacity. It comes with 32 GB of internal storage. It is also possible to get a 64 GB model that is available exclusively through Telefonica. The phone is limited by its inability to add external storage with a memory card.

Camera

The camera is intended to be the main killer feature of this phone. Its main camera is a 41 megapixel camera that features Nokia's patented PureView technology. The high amount of megapixels means that this phone has one of the most powerful phone camera sensors by a very large margin. This camera allows for full HD video and 4x digital zoom with no quality loss. It also has a front-facing camera with an average 1.2 MP camera.

Battery Life

The Nokia Lumia 1020 has a very respectable battery life by this generation's standards. It offers an average talk time of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a 3G network. It has 63 hours for music playing. Although it is far from the longest lasting phone battery, it is much higher than what is offered by any iPhone.

Ultimately, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is designed to be the must-have phone for people who primarily use their mobile devices as content creation tools. Its camera quality is currently unmatched with improvements being made upon it through each generation. Its high performance also makes it a good all-around choice to have as your primary mobile phone.

Laura Ginn knows that not all smartphones operate in the same way and it makes sense to check the features of your chosen phone before you buy. For the best Lumia 1020 deals compare prices at uSwitch.com, the UK’s leading online comparison site.