Just got a 1520 😊

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Been a long time WP user and really a phone addict. Decided not to go for the S5 and instead went for the 1520 to compliment my 1020.
I had to swap my sim online to a nano and the staff at the Microsoft store in Burnaby, Canada helped me out. Had quite a few looks at the 1520 as we don't have it here in Canada.
8.1 is now running nice with no sensitivity issues.

Looking forward to testing the camera.

Cheers.
 

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The only problem with the camera is the slow focus and shutter speed but Nokia plans to resolve that by adding continuous focus in Lumia Cyan. :)
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Awesome! What colour 1520 did you get?

The person who sold it to me had an ATT white model and a new yelllow rm-937 model. I ended up liking the yellow better with the bigger storage capacity (LTE wasn't a big deal for me). Awesome price too!

Girlfriend even left me to play with the phone tonight as she knew I would ignore her. Haha. She's awesome

Only issue is not being able to buy apps because I had to use a US region to get Cortana working. Posted a thread in Q&A. :(
 

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The person who sold it to me had an ATT white model and a new yelllow rm-937 model. I ended up liking the yellow better with the bigger storage capacity (LTE wasn't a big deal for me). Awesome price too!

Girlfriend even left me to play with the phone tonight as she knew I would ignore her. Haha. She's awesome

Only issue is not being able to buy apps because I had to use a US region to get Cortana working. Posted a thread in Q&A. :(

Cool! Yellow is nice.

My suggestion would be to change your region to the correct one, download and install your apps, and then switch back to US region for Cortana afterwards.
 

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Congratulations on your new phone. So you're rocking a 1520 and a 1020 now? Awesome

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I live in Canada. No Verizon here. And I need a specific app for teaching on my iPad that doesn't exist in WP 😉
The 2520/surface 2 runs Windows 8.1 RT, not WP, and the surface pro 3/2 run full Windows 8.1 x64... Maybe these should be better for teaching purposes,no? :)
 

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No I'm aware of that. I use my iPad to annotate and mirror onto my smartboard. I can highlight, edit, hide parts of pages, draw shapes, import graphs and templates right into the PDF. I've tried other platforms and they all fall short because of a lack of specific teaching apps.

There are no windows apps that offer even close to the functionality of my iPad app. The algorithm that renders my writing is superb and I can share to WordPress and dropbox all in one click. I don't even have paper copies or binders anymore. Our district has a windows only roadmap but for the classroom my iPad is still supreme.
 

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hi mate how is the camera on the 1520 , I have been offered one by my network as a swap for my faulty 1020 as they don't do the 64gb model anymore :-/

I still have 1x1020 and 1x faulty 1020 they want to swap for a brand new boxed 1520 so it would leave me in the same boat as you a 1020 and a 1520

I was thinking of using the 1520 as my daily driver due to the micro sim and then carrying the 1020 as a portable camera and back up phone

how does this work for you?
 

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hi mate how is the camera on the 1520 , I have been offered one by my network as a swap for my faulty 1020 as they don't do the 64gb model anymore :-/

I still have 1x1020 and 1x faulty 1020 they want to swap for a brand new boxed 1520 so it would leave me in the same boat as you a 1020 and a 1520

I was thinking of using the 1520 as my daily driver due to the micro sim and then carrying the 1020 as a portable camera and back up phone

how does this work for you?



hey have you noticed the phantom bug on ur lumia 1520 ? which consider scroll as tap ?
 

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I have that bug sometimes. There is some mention that turning off auto brightness and high touch sensitivity fixes this. I have noticed this too. Only time I have it is with auto brightness enabled.

As for the cameras:

The 1520 is not as good as the 1020. It's still great but not as sharp (might be an 8.1 no cyan issue). It has a lot more noise in low light but that's to be expected. I also found that the Nokia Cam Beta takes very noisy and blurry photos compared to non-beta. This is weird as I found the beta to be better on my 1020. All in all, the 1520 is still a good camera.

As for sim:
You can buy a $5 adapter online that lets you put the smaller nano sim into a micro sim tray (like the 1020). That way you can swap Sims when needed 😃
 

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