Gushing over the new phones as they pour off the factory belt? Can’t wait for them to cool off? Well for the meantime, we’re going to pit them against each other in a fight to the death. This is Smartphone Arena!
First off lets look at the specs of each phone by category.
General:
The first category is pretty even with both phones operating at 850/900/1800/1900,MHz, HSDPA except for the Lumia’s ability to operate a 850 MHz, LTE.
Dimensions:
Owners who prefer larger screen size will certainly prefer the Nokia Lumia (162.8 x 85.4 x 8.7mm) with it’s 6’’ , display compared to the Z1’s 5’’ (144 x 74 x 8.5mm). Ask anyone, size matters, every inch.
Weight:
Proportional to their size, the Nokia’s 209g outweighs the 170gs of the Z1. But who wants to lift weights all day?
Colors:
Personalization means a lot to people now-a-days. You want to feel like what you have is yours and yours alone. You can customize your 1520 Lumia’s colors to be yellow, white, black and red while Z1 has the options of black, white and purple.
Price:
Here comes the mucho dinero! Simply put:
Nokia Lumia 1520 – $585.99
Sony Xperia Z1 – $581.99
Both as of Jan 2014
Display:
Both with 16M color, the difference comes in on the type of touchscreen.
Nokia: IPS LCA capacitive touchscreen —> Features Mulititouch, Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Protection, ClearBlack display
Sony: TFT triluminous capacitive touch screen
Software:
Nokia’s Lumia 1520 runs on the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black OS (Operating System) and HTML5 Browser.
Sony’s Xperia Z1 ,however, runs on the Adroid, 4.3 (Jelly Bean), HTML (previous ver.) and also has Java.
Camera:
Love photography? Chase sunsets, storms, deer?
The Nokia’s
BACK CAMERA has 20MP, Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, autofocus and dual-LED flash
FRONT CAMERA has 1.2MP, HD (20p) video recording
FEATURES include 1/2.5” sensor size, PureView technology, dual capture, geo-tagging, face detection, panorama
The Sony’s
BACK CAMERA has 20.7MP but that’s about it besides the autofocus and LED flash.
FRONT CAMERA has 2MP, Full HD (1080p) video recording, 1/2.3” sensor size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, image stabilization, HDR, sweep panorama
**Both include Full HD (1080p) recording.
Memory:
Both have 2 GB of RAM
The Lumia has 32GB of Internal memory and takes microSD of up to 65GB external memory.
The Z1 has 16GB of internal memory and takes microSD of up to 32GB external memory to match.
Battery:
Both have a non-removable lithium ion battery with the Nokia’s running 3400 mAH or miliampere.
For more info refer to the phone comparison link below! Tomorrow will be comparing to other Sony Xperia’s, breaking them down and looking at their specs.
Source(s):
Sony Xperia Z1 and Phone Arena
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