- Oct 5, 2014
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Last year I had the Lumia 1020, but switched it for 925 during summer. Fast forward to the end of 2014/beginning of this year and during the past four months I've had Lumia 830, 930 and 735. However I just switched back to 1020. Why?
Here's my reasoning:
-Lumia 830 was a solid device, sleek and light, but I simply disliked its LCD IPS screen. To me it was worse than the 920's for instance. Glance was a welcome addition, though it was greatly hindered by bad readability (no match for an AMOLED screen). Also somehow it seemed that glance was much slower to wake up (peek function) than anything I previously had experienced with the 925 or 1020.
-Lumia 930 had an excellent AMOLED screen, but suffered from the omission of glance. There were also a lot of bugs found with my handset: the infamous purple hue with automatic brightness, creaking build and rattling side-buttons. All too common I guess for the 930...
-Lumia 735 had a great AMOLED screen, a stylish N9-like build. But somehow the cheapness of the device became apparent soon - I could push the screen from the below part back to its chassis now and then. I first thought the lack of a camera button wouldn't bother me too much, but I was wrong.
So I bought an unopened 1020 for 215 euros, a bargain I'd say.
Now I have the best (subjective) camera-phone out there. I have a properly working glance screen. Plus I got a proper camera-button and 32 GB of inbuilt memory (limited memory might be a con, though it has been enough for me so far). It's not a perfect device, but Lumia 1020 still stands out among the best overall Windows Phone experiences out there.
It's a shame the ecosystem is now filled with devices that make too many compromises.
Well, here's hoping the situation improves this year and we'll get more "differentiation" (made famous by Elop) among the handsets...
Here's my reasoning:
-Lumia 830 was a solid device, sleek and light, but I simply disliked its LCD IPS screen. To me it was worse than the 920's for instance. Glance was a welcome addition, though it was greatly hindered by bad readability (no match for an AMOLED screen). Also somehow it seemed that glance was much slower to wake up (peek function) than anything I previously had experienced with the 925 or 1020.
-Lumia 930 had an excellent AMOLED screen, but suffered from the omission of glance. There were also a lot of bugs found with my handset: the infamous purple hue with automatic brightness, creaking build and rattling side-buttons. All too common I guess for the 930...
-Lumia 735 had a great AMOLED screen, a stylish N9-like build. But somehow the cheapness of the device became apparent soon - I could push the screen from the below part back to its chassis now and then. I first thought the lack of a camera button wouldn't bother me too much, but I was wrong.
So I bought an unopened 1020 for 215 euros, a bargain I'd say.
Now I have the best (subjective) camera-phone out there. I have a properly working glance screen. Plus I got a proper camera-button and 32 GB of inbuilt memory (limited memory might be a con, though it has been enough for me so far). It's not a perfect device, but Lumia 1020 still stands out among the best overall Windows Phone experiences out there.
It's a shame the ecosystem is now filled with devices that make too many compromises.
Well, here's hoping the situation improves this year and we'll get more "differentiation" (made famous by Elop) among the handsets...