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with the Nokia Lumia 1520 nokia and microsoft have embraced the trend of the super sized screen I'm Jessica doll court for cnet and this is your first look now this phone is notable for two reasons one is the extra-large size and the other is that it is the first Windows Phone to use a quad-core processor but more on that later because first I want to talk about the design the 1520 has a unibody design that is nice and sleek there's a nice little border around the screen so it's not gappy at all one thing you will notice is that there are two doors that you have to open with a sim card key the bottom one is for the nano SIM and the top one is for a microSD card slot and that will take up to 64 gigabytes in external storage now how comfortable you find the phone to hold and use and even carry around with you is really going to depend on a lot of things like the size of your hands the size of your pockets and the size of whatever else you're carrying it in the phone did fit well into my hand when I was just holding it but it's a lot harder for me to use for one-handed operation it's very awkward and I noticed that I had to stretch my thumb around a lot in order to reach it it's also really hard for me to reach other areas on the screen so this is definitely a phone that you're going to want to use with two hands unless you have very large mints it also did not fit very well into my pockets but I did find that it fit into the cell phone pocket of my purse the screen itself is a very large 6 inches believe it or not that puts it sort of in the middle of the field larger than some but definitely not the biggest phablet that you're going to find around it's got a 1080p HD resolution also has Nokia's clear black display filter so that means it's going to be a little bit easier to read outside in broad daylight or some automatic settings you can put on that will change the brightness when you go outdoors and when you come back in since the phone is so large one thing you'll notice is a third column that Microsoft has added here for phones of this size live tiles will still only stretch to column would slide not the full area but you have a lot more room to play with you can see many more icons on this large screen then you can on any of the smaller screen phones the 1520 is running Windows Phone 8 Update 3 right out of the box it's got a lot of apps for you three including nokia apps AT&T apps and a couple others besides now one of the phones claims to fame is the 20 megapixel camera on here this does use the PureView technology most of the time your photos will resolve to 5 megapixels like if you update it online or send them to a front however the 20 megapixel image can be useful if you're going to do a lot of lossless cropping and if you want to print a full size image as usually you can switch from the default nokia camera app to any other lens including the native windows phone camera there are a lot of photo tools filters and extra fun apps that you can use for the most part even on automatic mode i found that the pictures were pretty good there's also the typical windows phone camera button this is something that you can hold and press to trigger the camera you can also press it as a shutter button you can use on-screen controls as well as i mentioned before the 15 20 is the first windows phone to come with a quad-core processor you're looking at a two point two gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset other specs include LTE and NFC of course the pricing is pretty reasonable for a phone on this size two hundred dollars on ATT with a new two-year service agreement overall I really like the phone's design I think it's light and slim and attractive I especially like this red color think it's pretty easy to handle to the specs are top-notch it doesn't have every single whistle and bell that you're going to find on some of the other advanced Android phones but if you don't need all of these that i can recommend this device this is the Nokia Lumia 1520 I'm Jessica doll court for cnet you can check out my full review at cnet com you