The new high-end Nokia: Lumia 925 vs. Lumia 1020 vs. Lumia 1520

With what was presented yesterday, Nokia has further completed its long list of devices with Windows Phone 8. The last one is the long-awaited Nokia Lumia 1520, which, along with the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 925, completes a trio of smartphones that today constitute the high-end of the Lumia family

If the Lumia 925 was an upgrade from the 920 and the Lumia 1020 the arrival of the best photographic technology to Windows Phone, the Lumia 1520 marks Nokia's entry into the phablet phenomenon.Starting from a similar base, each of them has specific characteristics that will serve to satisfy different user profiles. Let's take advantage of these lines to review them.

Nokia Lumia 925

In the spring of this year Nokia decided to update what was its flagship at the time, the Lumia 920. It did so by slightly changing its design and updating some of its sections, such as the camera, but keeping the same basis. From there came the Nokia Lumia 925, an update of the 920 that is now positioned as the entry-level mobile phone for Finns.

In the guts of the Nokia Lumia 925 beats a Qualcomm S4 processor with dual core at 1.5 GHz, powered by a 2,000 mAh battery, specifications are traced to those of the Lumia 1020. Like the 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with ClearBlack technology.

However, the 16GB of non-expandable internal storage and 1GB of RAM make it the least gifted of the three phones in the comparisonAnd they are not the only sections in which it pales in front of its rivals. The 8.7-megapixel camera also lags behind the show of force put on by its high-end peers.

As expected from the latter, where if the Nokia Lumia 925 wins is in its most contained dimensions, being the thinnest of the three with 8.5 millimeters thick. This also translates into a lower weight of 139 grams. In connectivity and additional features it is on a par with the other two, so it is in its smallest size and in the price where you can win

Nokia Lumia 1020

With so many rumors and leaks plaguing us for months, it seemed clear that Nokia had among its plans a Lumia that would inherit the photographic technology of the 808 PureView.This is how the Nokia Lumia 1020 Appeared on the scene Again based on the Lumia 920, those from Espoo took an improvement to their terminal centered this week. time in its capacities as a camera.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 directly copies the specs of the Lumia 925. There's the same 4.5-inch AMOLED display with ClearBlack technology, the same 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm S4 processor, and the same battery capacity with 2,000 mAh.

But Nokia didn't just copy this time. It increased the device's RAM to 2GB and raised the internal storage of the Lumia 1020 to 32GB, although it once again forgot a microSD slot to expand that space. What he didn't forget was improving the camera until his phone was the most capable in terms of photographic capabilities on the market.41 megapixel camera controlled with PureView technology are no wonder.

The improvements that the Lumia 1020 incorporates inevitably lead to an increase in the size and weight of the smartphone. The phone recovers a bit of the initial aesthetics of the Lumia 920, slightly increasing height, width and weight compared to the Lumia 925, and becoming the thickest of the three phones in this comparisonwith 10.4 mm. They contain the camera that becomes the main bulwark of the Lumia 1020.

Nokia Lumia 1520

If the rumors were already incessant around the Lumia 1020, there were no less those around the long-awaited Nokia phablet. The Nokia Lumia 1520 with its 6-inch screen is the response of the Finns to a certain market trend towards oversized smartphones.But far from limiting themselves to covering the same as always with a larger panel, those from Espoo have taken the opportunity to improve specifications.

The screen of the Nokia Lumia 1520 is its business card. It is not for less when we talk about a whole 6-inch IPS LCD screen with ClearBlack technology and a resolution of 1920x1080, which leaves us with a density of 367 pixels per inch, the highest of the three phones in the comparison. Although along the way it has lost the PureMotion label.

Screen size and resolution are not the only areas where the Lumia 1520 beats its rivals Its Snapdragon 800 processor, with its 4 2.2 GHz cores, accompanied by 2GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage and a 3,400 mAh battery, make it the most capable of the three. The 20-megapixel main camera maintains PureView technology, but it falls a bit far from what was shown by the Lumia 1020.

The increase in the screen, perhaps its greatest value compared to the rest, means that the Nokia Lumia 1520 is the largest of the three high-end LumiaIts 162.8 millimeters high and 85.4 millimeters wide make it even uncomfortable in more than one hand. More when the weight of 209 grams makes it the heaviest of the three. But Nokia has managed to cram it all into a body that's just 8.7 millimeters thick, very close to the mark of the Lumia 925.

Comparative table and prices

We said at the beginning of this article that each of the three smartphones that make up Nokia's high-end range right now have distinctive features that could convince different types of usersThe problem is to see how they affect the price. For this, it is worth recovering the final table and adding price and availability to the equation.

With its 479 euros price, the Lumia 925 becomes a great opportunity for anyone looking to enter the high-end Windows range Phone 8. Of course, if we are looking for our next team to shine in certain sections, we are going to have to pay something more. Having the camera of the Lumia 1020 with us will cost us 699 euros, with which we will take a little more RAM and storage. And if what we are looking for is a screen like the one in the Lumia 1520, with the latest in mobile processors and a considerable battery, we will have to be willing to spend 749 dollars that possibly translate directly into euros

With the Lumia 925, the Lumia 1020 and the Lumia 1520, Nokia offers us three high-end smartphones with differentiating features As always It will be up to everyone to decide which of them best meets their needs and can become their next Windows Phone 8.