Comparison: nokia lumia 1020 vs bq aquaris 5 hd

After passing the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 in the ring, now it's the turn of a Spain brand, the BQ Aquaris 5 HD. Basically it is just like its sibling the standard Aquaris 5, only improvement in its resolution has been added. Below we will see if it is up to the Nokia Lumia 1020, a high-end terminal well-known by the Professional Review team and its public. Once again we hope to see if the difference between its costs (which we will check at the end as always) is in line with its benefits. Attentive to the confrontation between a Spain brand and the company resurrected by Microsoft:

Screens: that of the Lumia 1020 has a size of 4.5 inches AMOLED , which makes it brighter and less consuming, in addition to being accompanied by ClearBlack technology, allowing the screen to be perfectly readable under the light of the Sun. Its resolution is 1280 x 768 pixels, giving it a density of 334 pixels per inch. The Bq Aquaris 5 HD for its part, it presents a capacitive multi-touch HD screen with a size of 5 inches and a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, which gives it a density of 294 pixels per inch. It features IPS technology with a viewing angle of 178 degrees, so we will not lose detail of what happens on our smartphone, regardless of the position we are in. Videos and movies are played in an aspect ratio of 16: 9 The Lumia also has anti-shock protection thanks to the glass manufactured by the company Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Processors: the Nokia for its part presents a Qualcomm Snapdragon ^TM S4 dual-core 1.5 GHz CPU, while the Aquaris 5HD It has a Quad Core Cortex A7 1.2 GHz SoC . Its graphics chips are also different: Adreno 225 for the Lumia and PowerVR Series5 SGX544 for the BQ. As for the RAM we can say that it is not the same, since the Nokia comes with 2 GB and the Spain brand 1 GB. The operating systems are not the same either, with Windows Phone 8 being present in the case of the Finnish model and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean if we talk about the Aquaris.

Cameras: In the case of the Lumia, its 41 megapixel sensor has PureView technology, exclusive to Nokia, in addition to being accompanied by optical image stabilization, six exclusive Carl Zeiss lenses, Xenon flash and LEDs (for video and as an aid in autofocus), and incredible true high-resolution zoom, allowing you to zoom in on any part of a photo without losing any quality, as well as being able to apply numerous effects, such as rotating, cropping or modifying as many times as you want. The Aquaris for its part has 8 megapixels, in addition to a proximity sensor, brightness, Dolby ™ sound technology, LED flash and autofocus. Both front cameras have 1.2 megapixels, very useful for video conferencing or photography. The two devices are also capable of making video recordings, in Full HD 1080p quality at 30 fps if we talk about the Lumia, which also has the possibility of expanding the image up to 6 times without losing quality, not to mention its Nokia Rich application Recording that gives you a very clear and distortion-free audio.

Batteries: their capacities are practically identical, since we have 2100 mAh by the BQ Aquaris 5 HD and 2000 mAh if we refer to the Nokia. To this we also add the greater power that the Finnish model presents, so its autonomy we assume that it will be appreciably less. However, we must not forget the handling we give to the smartphone, since the fact of using it for games, videos or the type of connection, etc., will directly affect it.

Connectivity: both devices have connections that we are more than used to like 3G, WiFi or Bluetooth, although we must add that the Nokia offers LTE / 4G support.

Internal memories: regarding this feature we can also say that they are completely different, with the Aquaris 5 HD having a single 16 GB model, while the Lumia 1020 has two terminals with different ROMs for sale, turning out to be 32 and 64 GB. On the other hand, we must highlight that the BQ has a microSD slot for microSD cards of up to 64 GB and although the Lumia lacks this specification, it has free 7 GB cloud storage .

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Designs: the nokia Lumia 1020 has dimensions of 130.4 mm high × 71.4 × 10.4 millimeters thick and weighs 158 grams . Its casing has great robustness thanks to the perfect union between the front and the back, constituting a single piece made of polycarbonate. We have it available in yellow, white and black. The Bq Aquaris 5 HD is 141.8mm high x 71mm wide x 9.1mm thick and weighs 170 grams. The novelty with respect to the normal Aquaris 5 is its thickness, managing to be a little thinner thanks to the 0.8 mm less it presents.

Prices: the nokia Lumia 1020 is a high-end smartphone with very good features, although it is still very expensive: we can find it in black and free for 562 euros on the website of pccomponentes.com. The Bq Aquaris 5 HD can be found on its official website for 199.90 euros, starting price also for the standard Aquaris 5, which have been forced to reduce its cost by 20 euros (179.90 euros) to maintain both devices in the market. By selling free, we can adapt it to the conditions we have with our operator.

	Nokia Lumia 1020	BQ Aquaris 5 HD
screen	4.5 inch AMOLED	5 inch HD muti-touch
Resolution	1280 × 768 pixels	1280 × 1720 pixels
Screen type	Gorilla Glass 3
Internal memory	32GB and 64GB models	16 GB (expandable up to 64 GB)
OS	Windows Phone 8	Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Battery	2, 000 mAh	2100 mAh
Connectivity	WiFi 802.11b / g / nBluetooth3G 4G / LTE	WiFi 802.11a / b / g / nBluetooth 4.03G
Rear camera	40.1 MP Sensor Autofocus LED Flash and Xenon Full HD 1080p video recording at 30 fps	8 MP Sensor LED Flash Autofocus Proximity sensor, brightness
Frontal camera	1.2 MP	1.2 MP
Processor and graphics	Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual core 1.5 GHz Adreno 225	Quad Core Cortex A7 1.2GHz PowerVR Series5 SGX544
RAM	2 GB	1 GB
Dimensions	130.4 mm high × 71.4 × 10.4 millimeters thick	141.8 mm high x 71 mm wide x 9.1 mm thick