Both are smartphones that are highly appreciated for their photography capabilities, Nokia Lumia 1520 or HTC Desire EYE appear to be suitable for young users.
Nokia Lumia 1520 has a fairly large design with rounded and balanced edges. Lumia 1520 is made from high-quality plastic with a curved screen at the edges and quite youthful colors. In terms of size, Lumia 1520 is among the phones with the largest screens today. It’s not thick (8.7mm) but is extremely tall, wide and quite heavy.
It’s higher Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (162.88mm vs 151.2mm), twice as wide and 42 grams heavier. Although it possesses many functions, it cannot be denied that the large weight of the Lumia 1520 also affects the buyer’s choice. With such a large screen, there is no need to say too much that this is a “two-handed” phone.
You can use this phone with one hand for a short time, but if you hold it longer or you need to do some other things, owning oversized phones like this will put a strain on your pockets.
Physical controls include a dedicated camera shutter button, volume controls and a lock button. It works quite well, although it’s a bit easy to control the volume if there’s a slight bump when you put the phone in your pocket.
For its part, with a beautiful design, HTC Desire EYE clearly targets young customers who love taking selfies but cannot own an HTC One M8 or iPhone 6. The 13MP front camera brought sales to a peak when HTC announced that this was the last selfie phone.
HTC is no stranger to top-notch camera phones. The Taiwanese company started with the UltraPixel for the HTC One and then the Duo rear sensor for the One M8. Selfie photography is a clear trend and it’s not surprising that HTC wants to dominate the market in this direction.
The complete difference between the Desire and One lines is the design materials. Desire Eye does not have a premium metal frame. Instead, it is designed entirely in polycarbonate and color. More importantly, it has an IPX7 waterproof rating. This means that the Desire Eye is water resistant up to 1 meter for over 30 minutes, but you cannot use it while immersed in water.
Desire Eye doesn’t have a high-end metal frame, but that doesn’t mean the quality is inferior. When you touch the Desire Eye, which is designed entirely in polycarbonate, you feel smooth and soft and really strong and sturdy.
With a 5.2-inch screen, the Desire Eye is a big phone. It’s wider than the HTC One (only 4.7 inches) and HTC One M8 (only 5 inches), so it won’t fit everyone. Desire Eye dimensions are 151.7 x 73.8 x 8.5mm and the edge of the device.
Performance comparison
Normally, WP8’s performance inevitably suffers from some errors, but Lumia 1520 has solved the problems by using the fastest silicon. The 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and 2GB of RAM allow you to play all types of latest games without any difficulty.
Although the usual standards of the benchmark evaluation system (Geekbench 3 and 3D Mark) have not yet been applied to WP8, with the experience gained from testing the Snapdragon 800 on other phones, the battle between this phone and the Apple A7 is relatively similar. Therefore, ordinary users will not encounter any processing problems when owning the Nokia Lumia 1520.
HTC Desire Eye uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU, 8-core processor, giving you more power than you think for a mid-range phone. Although the HTC Desire Eye’s chip has been surpassed by many phones with Snapdragon 805, the smartphone 2014’s flagship handsets, including the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Sony Xperia Z2 still ship with the Snapdragon 801.
The speed is 2.27GHz and HTC also incorporated 2GB RAM in its current flagship smartphone, the One M8. It means Desire Eye runs at more speed when running multiple applications and playing games.
When running the Geekbench 3 and Eye tests, the multi-core score was 2713 and the single-core score was 954. Compatible with the Sony Xperia Z2 and LG The G3, scored 2765 and 2561 on the multi-core test respectively
In real terms, the phone is ready for use with 3D games like Modern Combat 4 or Real Racing 3. It relies on the Adreno 330GPU for gaming and other visualizations.
There aren’t many cell phones that can do what the Desire Eye does. I have connections, open many tabs to browse the web, listen to music but it still maintains good running speed. The only thing to note is that Desire Eye’s storage capacity is only 16 GB, so your memory space will quickly fill up.
Review
It can be easily seen that, beyond the similarities in photography, both the design and performance of the HTC Desire EYE are superior to the competition, especially in the front camera. There is nothing surprising about this difference, as the user groups of the two smartphone models are completely different. Therefore, if you are a user who loves taking photos, and especially taking selfies, choose a device according to your budget.
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