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what's up everyone John written from TechnoBuffalo here's a full review for you of the Lumia 1520 the latest flagship from Nokia I put it through its paces for the better part of a week let's go ahead and see if it's the phone that you want to obsessively check every 15 minutes for the next two years let me begin this review the way I do all of our reviews with a disclaimer I use this as my daily driver for seven days and then two additional days in conjunction with another phone let's jump right in to hardware the 6-inch 1920 by 1080 screen is friggin gorgeous windows phone looks meant for 1080p screens pictures text and video all look ridiculously awesome the biggest surprise for me was the viewing angles were really good and even direct sunlight you could still see the screen and usually direct sunlight is like the bane of all cell phones existence it worked awesome also worked well with polarized sunglasses if you wear them like I do I've also made a pretty decent ereader and a pinch because the screen is so big at 6 inches this is the first time that Windows Phone really got premiere hardware and in all honesty it's not that different which is probably testament to Windows Phone how well optimized it was before similar I guess to kind of an Apple model where they control the hardware and they certainly control your operating system the things you just work pretty well the big differences I noticed was it booted up quicker that's what the snapdragon 800 and two gigs a ram so it's got you know pretty beastly specs here apps also open faster there was no lag at all I didn't feel like I had to do any sort of memory management but never felt like how to do that before anyway one of the big stories here though aside from the gorgeous specs and the incredible screen is that guy on the back it's pretty nice camera at about 20 megapixels doesn't have the giant 10:20 style camera dump I really like that I'm not missing the extra 21 megapixels I'd really prefer how sort of almost flush this is to the back some really cool Nokia app so that go with the camera no carry focus is beyond cool essentially it's like a light dro camera uses sort of fake light filter near-field technology lets you refocus after the fact and save a picture and it works really really really well Nokia camera also has a ton of options you can get down to really almost your DSLR type customisation and the default camera app is pretty functional and if you noticed I just mentioned three different camera apps that's way way way way too many apps unify them two were made by Nokia one is a default one Microsoft now pretty much owns Nokia so just give me one app that does everything let me select the mode that I want I don't have to have nine different camera apps didn't make much sense to me but since we are talking about the camera low-light shots were awesome not quite the quality of the 41 megapixel on the 1020 but pretty darn close us can easily go head-to-head with other flagships including the iPhone 5s and already the best of Android one of the best cameras on the market right now so how was the Lumia 1520 to live with it's big but it's really fit and they found that surprisingly fit pretty well in my pocket and again just normal dude jeans I don't they were tight pants super baggy pants just regular pants it actually fit pretty well due to the thinness and first time I looked at a Lumia device been like huh pretty spelt so hats off to Nokia for cramming you know a lot of hardware in a really really thin package I loved the extra row for live tiles I never had to go into my applets pretty much at all I could see everything on the home screen I had actually struggled to find extra apps to put on the home screen I just to fill it up the Windows Store has gotten way better since I last visited core apps that I use are now all there like Instagram is finally there although no video yet but Instagram is finally there so the ones that I use the most you know I got Twitter you have Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Foursquare are all there there's the big ones that I use so I brought up a point to Todd Hazeltine who did our written review of this which you can see the link down below to get all kinds of camera sample images we're talking about the phone I've been saying that I missed Google now on Android devices you brought up a really good point why do you need well now and you can steal the information right on the live tile and that was actually a very valid thing to say I could see everything around a live tile I could see my sports scores I could see you know shipping for packages like a seaside traveler and see absolutely everything I thought really needing to open up Google now so made a lot of sense to me and so it was nice to see that it was there it does seem kind of weird from a size standpoint that Nokia went from 4.5 inches on 10 26 inches if I had a bet though I'd say there's a middle ground 5 inch phone coming very very very soon probably sometime around Mobile World Congress made me February ish giant phone also packs a pretty giant battery 3400 milliamp hours it was pretty awesome and it worked very well able to get through a whole day with 40% so my usage is generally comes off the charger around 7:00 in the morning let's get it to Wi-Fi almost holiday either at home or at the office there's probably more social networking that I've cared to admit on here probably about an hour and a half two hours of phone calls not pulling in two email accounts every 15 minutes or just in most frequently you can check with not an exchange account screen brightness set to about 80% I like a really bright screen and then just some you know video watching something like games so that's my usage so I'm gonna get there full day I'm pretty happy so if you just turn down the brightness you could very easily stretch it out to probably two days we saw this guy debuted at rather in Abu Dhabi was really excited wireless charging was gonna be here no need for external case and then AT&T Nokia someone those two companies new to the phone and no wireless charging here so WTF I really would have liked you've had wireless charging at that haven't put a freaking giant stupid back cover on this phone use announces wireless charging to gives me wireless charging I did this in a rants video I wants it give it to me please I do really wish there's a digital assistant something like Siri or Google search but supposedly that's coming and the call yet Cortana which is kind of cool no Notification Center was also kind of annoying but supposedly that's also coming also Microsoft and Nokia whoever please let me charge the phone it's powered off it's right the dark commute atern my phone off at night I like to turn notifications off so let me turn my phone off and charge it why can't I do that I do feel and Todd agree with me at this phone was kind of designed for the next version of Windows Phone and I'm really excited for what that's going to be and hopefully we'll see that very soon I could use this as my only phone and be pretty happy so if you're very app centric you definitely want to check to make sure the apps you use you're gonna be here if you do want a great phone with a great camera a beautiful screen this is a really good choice you owe it to yourself to look at Windows Phone a crush off with iOS and Android to find that starting to stack up pretty well other phone gets a very solid eight point five and a high recommendation for me hope you guys enjoy thank you for watching the Lumia 1520 review please give it a thumbs specifically appreciate it until next time I'm John wrench from TechnoBuffalo I'll see the next one buh-bye what's up everyone John here thank you for watching the video if you enjoyed it I certainly hope you did click on the subscribe button right under me and my pants region to get tons more tech videos from TechnoBuffalo we've got awesome unboxings comparisons reviews recaps 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