Help Decide between 1020 and 1520 ?

[camaroz1985]

The 1020 camera was amazing, but the speed of the 1520 camera and phone in general make up that difference, at least for me. Size quickly becomes a nonfactor, but it was a bit worrying at first.

 

[mjoshi123]

Thanks to all my 1520 is on way , I got it off of ebay in mint condition. Now what should I do to make sure I didnot get lemon or to figure out any hardware issues / setting up my new Lumia 1520 - any tips/tricks for new user ? I've got 64GB microsd card that I'm planning on using for my music/photo storage.
What are must have apps for someone who is coming from iOS platform ?

 

[anon(5061193)]

Are the two cameras comparable ? I was looking for a phone that could actually replace my camera and heard that the 1520 was light years ahead of every other phone as far as the camera. Is that true?

 

[agentmikeyd99]

Are the two cameras comparable ? I was looking for a phone that could actually replace my camera and heard that the 1520 was light years ahead of every other phone as far as the camera. Is that true?

I had the 1020 and the camera was excellent, however it did have some problems, yellowish tint on indoor photos and very slow to load and snap, which was very frustrating. I changed to the 1520 and could not be happier. Overall the 1520 is a much better device, and the camera is very good. In fact, unless you are printing large photos you wont notice much of a difference. Also since the 1520 camera loads and snaps so much faster than the 1020, I get the pics I want, which is more important than a higher resolution...

 

[Shawn Of Belgrado]

hey there, not sure if you already got one, but i got the 1520 over the 1020, mainly for faster camera, and sd card. The size is something you get used to, but you might want to carry it in a larger pocket than your trousers.
if you get the 1520 you wont be sorry, it also has ips screen instead of amoled, which means no burn ins and better (mucho better) battery life!
you easily get 50-60% at the end of the day (with quite heavy usage)

 

[Shawn Of Belgrado]

ow yess the step counter is awesome!!

 

[agentmikeyd99]

ow yess the step counter is awesome!!

Is that what Motion Data in Settings is for?

 

[heickelrrx]

I'm strongly recommend 1520 over 1020. 1020 is nice but 1520 way better devices. The camera may not as good as 1020 but there are quite few reason for that

1st 1520 got newest chipset on Lumia. So they perform faster than 1020 it also got hey Cortana features later.

2nd 1520 take full advantage over denim firmware. While all devices got denim later 1520 got additional feature on the camera with denim update, while 1020 denim only contains OS update and driver update that necessary to run updated OS.

3rd 1520 got SD card slot. It means that you can store your taken photo that tweaked by denim firmware in SD card. While 1020 only get 32 internal memory

So that's 3 big reason choosing 1520 over 1020. By the way denim firmware boost camera capabilities so the photo taken using 1520 is comparable and sometimes even better than 1020

 

[agentmikeyd99]

As in my previous posts, I am so pleased with the 1520 as compared to my 1020. I also recently noticed a couple more cool differences.

When texting a video, the "processing" speed is incredibly faster on the 1520. It takes about 3 times longer on the 1020 to "process" the video to be sent.

Also, I am liking the 1520's camera better than the 1020. There is an incredible speed difference for both loading the app and snapping the shots (and this will get even better w Denim!). Also the 1520 has much more accurate colors both indoor and out- for example, a bright green baby pool was captured so much more accurately on the 1520; on the 1020 the color was way too bright and no where close to the "real" color. And no more yellowish haze on indoor photos!

Loving my beast more and more everyday!