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it was just a few months ago that we were on the pocket now weekly podcast debating the mere existence of a Nokia tablet well time sure moves quickly doesn't it the 2520 is the latest in a long line of Lumias we've covered this season but as Nokia's first ever Windows tablet it deserves a close look before it goes on sale at AT&T this friday i'm michael fisher with pocket now and we'll be giving it that close look in a full review coming soon but for now here's our first impressions after a day spent with the Nokia Lumia 2520 let's talk Hardware first coming out of the box the 25 20 fields pretty massive in the hand and at 615 grams it's no lightweight as a 10-inch err it's more suited to a satchel or a backpack than a pocket and it's matte finish black silk paint job means it doesn't immediately stand out but in exchange for the big dimensions you've got a soft touch feel that makes the device seem rounder than it actually is it's very comfy to hold and the 10 inch IPS LCD around front is 1080p and quite colorful under the hood as a snapdragon 800 backed up by 2 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of storage expandable via microSD the whole thing is powered by an 8000 milliamp hour battery that Nokia says can charge up to 80% in just an hour and when fully charged it's supposed to provide up to 10 hours of continuous video playback our 18t model here supports LTE alongside Wi-Fi for connectivity America's second largest network just as speedy as ever here at the pocket now Boston offices all that horse power is here to support the tablets OS which will be familiar to anyone who's seen a surface and envy x2 or any other Windows tablet if we cover a lot of them at pocket now by the by so follow us where we tweet and talk so you don't miss future reviews and features the Windows RT 8.1 powers the newest Lumia with extras out of the box including Microsoft Office Outlook here maps and some new multimedia titles among others responsiveness as always with Windows it seems is fluid and smooth the UI reacting like a floating puck on an air hockey table desktop mode is still here if you need it but with the ever-growing Windows Store it's becoming somewhat easier to take care of business exclusively in the modern UI environment after sinking the 2520 with our Microsoft account and downloading most of our apps to the tablet we put it through a fairly typical afternoon of use hopping back and forth between work and play there were very few surprises Windows RT behaved very well at a core level and while a few third-party apps hiccup here and there everything from Netflix to email to Twitter to the news ultimately did what it was supposed to do the speaker's kicked out sound that was rich and loud and the screen remained plenty visible outdoors and so did the fingerprints all over it of course our experiments with the camera were a brief but not exactly encouraging it may be that not even Nokia's famed carl zeiss optics can make a tablet camera appealing we'll see in all our first day with the 2520 is probably best described as comfortable we've got a lot more to explore before we're ready to render a full review but at this point we like the newest Lumia enough to look forward to the task and if you want us to address something specific in that full review drop us a comment down below let us know what it is and we'll do our best to get to it in the meantime please throw us a like if you enjoyed this first impressions video and visit us at pocketnow.com for reviews features editorials all kinds of coverage on every mobile device we can get our hands on this has been michael fisher with PocketNow once again thank you so much for watching and we'll see you soon