MICROSOFT DISPLAY DOCK LUMIA 1520 FULL
MICROSOFT DISPLAY DOCK LUMIA 1520 WINDOWS 10

The sensor's slightly bigger too, at 1/2.4', but far more significant is the wider aperture, i.e. The sensor is totally different, in fact, with more sensitive pixels that produce lower overall noise, and with scattered 'focus pixels' that work with associated electronics to track the camera lens to the right point much more quickly than with traditional 'contrast auto-focus', in which the image needs to be received and analysed every time the lens is moved.

MICROSOFT DISPLAY DOCK LUMIA 1520 WINDOWS 10

We know that Windows Phone was very efficient on more lowly processors and with lower amounts of RAM, and indeed my own tests show that Windows 10 Mobile runs quite acceptably on even the most lowly hardware - but if you're in the market for a 950 XL then you don't want 'acceptably', you want applications to open in a flash and for the interface to never present you with 'resuming.' Here, a factor of at least two (and possibly more) is a big deal, especially on the more 'professional' use cases, such as Edge (web) browsing and Office document handling.Ī big draw to many will be the better camera too, despite the apparently similar baseline 20MP resolution. Add in the 3GB of RAM (compared to 2GB on the 1520) and it's clear that the Lumia 950 XL is going to fly. The Snapdragon 810 chipset benchmarks around twice as fast as the Snapdragon 800 in the Lumia 1520, though the two banks of processor cores do in theory mean that it can be twice as fast when it needs to be and more power efficient the rest of the time. In fairness, I should point out that the newer phone uses virtual Windows control keys, so when these are 'up', which is most of the time, then you're down to about a 5.4' screen - that may be significant if you absolutely must have the largest screen possible in a phone, all the time. We've just had narrower, yet with minimal loss of screen real estate. I'm going to run through some of the other key differences, but I don't want to head into yet another table here on AAWP - we've had far too many specs tables recently! Showing the screen extents - 6' vs 5.7' displays, to scale. The Lumia 950 XL can be carried more securely and pocketed more easily. So, yes, 7mm makes a big difference here, shown to scale on this page. What was happening was that the 1520 was too big for any of my pockets, comfortable, so I put it down beside me wherever I went - and then forgot to pick it up more than I'd like to admit. In fact, when using the Lumia 1520 full-time, as an experiment, I kept losing the phone.

MICROSOFT DISPLAY DOCK LUMIA 1520 FULL

It was for the Google Nexus 6, for example, which I tried living with for a week, and the 1520 is a full 2mm wider. Now, 7mm may not seem a lot in the grand scheme of things, but I've reviewed enough devices to know that holding and carrying a 78mm-wide smartphone is just about practical, while 85mm is beyond the pale.

However, this is being totally disingenuous, as the overall package with the Lumia 950 XL knocks spots off the 1520 in many ways, not least that it's a whopping 7mm narrower, with only a small 0.3' reduction in screen real estate. After all, a (nearly) 6' screen? The return of Glance screen? microSD support? Yep, yep, and yep, all on the much older device. Much of what was announced at the huge (in significance) Microsoft event was arguably somewhat old hat to anyone who's had a Lumia 1520 for the last two years.

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