The long rumored and leaked, one of the most awaited handset from the Finnish manufacturer, a supersize of it's 2013 flagship Lumia 1020, out from the traditional polycarbonate chassis, the company's first ever 1080p resolution screen phablet with PureView camera, the Nokia Lumia 1520 previously also codenamed as Bandit, is now official at the company's Press Event held this morning at Nokia World, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
This new humongous Nokia creation will pack a Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC running at 2.2GHz, six-inches screen of 1080p resolution Full High Definition IPS Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) with 368 pixel density and Super Sensitive touch in protection of Corning Gorilla Glass 2, 32 gigabytes of internal storage (expandable via microSD card slot), 2 gigs of Random Access Memory (RAM).
Now the 26 millimeters wide angle lens of 20 megapixels PureView camera with 6-lens Carl Zeiss optics, installed with a 1/2.5-inches BSI sensor and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) technology, capable of oversampling photos with smaller resolution, lower noise and lossless zooming. Video samples comes out at 1080p at 30 frames-per-second.
From the connectivity department, the Nokia made Lumia 1520 will come out of the box with Bluetooth 4.0, LTE support up to 150 Mbps, Near Field Communication (NFC), WiFi and microUSB 2.0. The smartphone also sports a 3,400mAh powered battery life, compromising 32 days of standby and 124 hours of music playback. On the software, the new Lumia will come with Microsoft and Nokia's latest Windows 8 with Lumia Black update. 1520 is 8.7 millimeters in thickness and weighs 209 grams.
Nokia Lumia 1520 will be available in Red, White, Yellow and Black, which is expected to be available in China, Singapore, United Kingdom, France, Germany and in many other European countries by this late autumn, at a price of $749. For United States, the phone will remain as a AT&T exclusive.