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imagine all the spikes and capabilities of a nokia lumia 1520 and shrink it down to a 5 inch phone that is the nokia lumia icon a new exclusive for verizon i'm jessica doll court for CNN i'm going to tell you all about this phone let's start with the design the lumia icon comes in two colors the white one I've got here and also black this white one has silver aluminum ridge around the edge and the black one has that rim as well it's just colored in black instead of silver what's interesting about this phone is the shape and also the colors you don't get the screaming yellows reds blues or anything else because verizon goes for much more somber shades you do have the straight edges here which means that the phone can stand up on its own on the bottom top and left spine at that is different there is also the slight curve to the back so it's still comfortable in the palm this is a unibody design with a polycarbonate backing so you can't remove the back cover to get at any external storage because there is none you also can't get at the battery that said though there are 32 gigabytes of built-in storage and you've got seven gigabytes of free online storage via Sky Drive you've got a very characteristic bright beautiful screen on this nokia lumia icon it's 5 inches it has the same three column width as you're going to see on the 6-inch phones like the Lumia 1520 and 1320 the icons are a little bit smaller here in the smallest size but they are still tap about the full 1080p HD resolution makes everything very crisp and it's also very bright the screen does have a setting option for extra sensitivity so you can operate it with your nail or with gloves on and it can go even brighter for outdoor readability as for the camera you do have a 20 megapixel sensor here with dual LED flash most photos do resolve to five megapixels but you have the option for lossless zooming so that's going to get you closer to about 16 megapixels in a 16 by 9 ratio on the front you've got a 2 megapixel sensor here you're only going to get one point 2 megapixels for stills but you do get the benefit of the 2 megapixels when it comes to video conferencing now this is a very speedy phone in addition to LTE your you two have a two point two gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core chip in here so it's going to give you quite the boost you've got all the windows phone standards here including the microsoft office suite being music identification voice search and a whole bunch of extra nokia apps especially for the camera there's also multitasking NFC and built-in wireless charging the Nokia Lumia icon goes on sale februari 20th with verizon for two hundred dollars on contract overall it isn't my favorite looking nokia device it's a little bit heavy a little bit thick and a little bit bland for my tastes personally but you do get that really nice camera the very fast processor the beautiful 5-inch screen so there are a lot of specs in here to like I'm Jessica doll court for CNN you can check out my full review of the Nokia Lumia icon from verizon at cnet com