This video was inspired by a post on WMPowerUser regarding whether or not Microsoft is ignoring dual core phones. I commented that people need to get over it. The dual core Snapdragon S4 Plus was a decrepit, old processor even when it was the only processor that was supported by Windows Phone 8. It really says something when your next generation low end phone outperforms your last generation flagship.
Of course, I got torn apart. I pointed out that a dual core 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 Plus is far less powerful than a quad core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 200. Of course, I probably would have had the same response, that it’s not all about cores and GHz. People aren’t very nice on the Internet.
It doesn’t change the facts though. Watch the Microsoft Lumia 535 outperform the Nokia Lumia 1020.
Yesterday, we compared the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL to the Nokia Lumia Icon. The results were surprising. While the Lumia Icon clearly beat the Lumia 640 XL in terms of performance, the Lumia 640 XL had the better camera. Now it’s time to compare the Lumia 640 XL to the legendary Nokia Lumia 1020.
I’m not expecting the Lumia 640 XL to outperform the Nokia Lumia 1020. The Nokia Lumia 1020 is widely known as the best smart phone camera ever, although Microsoft is not planning a successor. I do want to see how close it is. Also, I expect the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL to outperform the Nokia Lumia 1020 in performance tests.
It has been a week now since I started reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. I can tell you that it is a stunning device. It’s blazingly fast, it has amazing battery life, and the display is just stunning.
If you know me or you follow FTLoT, you know that I’ve never historically been a fan of Samsung devices. My review of the Galaxy Note 4 was called A Perversion of Innovation. My review of the Note Edge was called Samsung Makes the Note 4 Worse.
I’ve also been told that the Samsung Galaxy S6 is going to change all of that and so far, everyone has been right. The Galaxy S6 is an amazing device. Everyone is also telling me that the Galaxy S6 has a camera that is well far and beyond anything else on the market. I showed that that’s not exactly correct when I compared it to the iPhone 6, but now it’s time for the gold standard test, which is the Nokia Lumia 1020.
I have been using the Yezz Biloly 4.7 for about a week and a half now. I love it. It retails for $179.99 and I could see myself using this instead of a flagship. It might not be blazingly fast, but it makes up for it in form factor and fashion. It’s super thin and light and it’s beautiful.
I want to compare it to the Nokia Lumia 1020. I don’t expect the camera to live up to the Lumia 1020, as no phones really do. We all know that the Lumia 1020 has one of the best smart phone cameras on the market. The question is about how close it comes.
I’m also curious about benchmarks. All of the original Windows Phone 8 phones used dual core Snapdragon S4 processors. They’re dinosaurs now, compared to the Windows Phone 8.1 phones that use quad core processors. I want to see how the flagship Windows Phone 8 with 1.5 GHz dual core processors stand up to even the low end 1.2 GHz quad core processors in the Yezz Billy 4.7 or the Microsoft Lumia 535.
I’ve been spending some time with the Nokia Lumia 735, as many of you know. It uses a 6.7 MP rear camera with a Carl Zeiss lens. It’s one of the rare Lumia cameras that have a Carl Zeiss lens but it is not Pureview. Here’s the interesting thing about it. Pureview is Nokia’s (and now Microsoft’s) technology that takes a higher resolution image and oversamples it down to a lower resolution, typically 5 MP.
Because of that, I thought it would be interesting to compare the Nokia Lumia 735 to the Nokia Lumia 1020. We have one that uses a 6.7 MP rear camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and the other has a 41 MP Pureview camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and oversamples it down to 5 MP. Let’s see if we can spot a difference here.
Any time a new flagship phone comes in, it’s time to do camera comparisons and the Nokia Lumia 1020 is always the gold standard test. It is the closest smart phone camera to a DSLR, which is still not very close. The Nokia Lumia 1020 uses a 41 MP camera with a real xenon flash and a 1/1.5″ sensor.
I’m not expecting the Nexus 6 to be better than the Nokia Lumia 1020. Neither the Nexus 5 nor the Moto X have had fantastic cameras in low light and thus far, the Nexus 6 hasn’t been any better. That being said, the Nexus 6 does have an impressive camera.
The Nokia Lumia 830 is billed as Nokia’s first ever affordable flagship. In fact, it is the highest end Nokia phone to come to the United States since Windows Phone 8.1 happened. While the guts of the Nokia Lumia 830 are mid-range at best, the camera is certainly high end. That being said, it seems fair to compare the 10 MP Pureview camera of the Nokia Lumia 830 to the 41 MP Pureview camera of the Nokia Lumia 1020.
While the Nokia Lumia 1020 was released in July 2013, it remains relevant to this day. The Nokia Lumia 1020 is widely known as having the best smart phone camera. Because of that, any time a new flagship comes in, the comparison to the Nokia Lumia 1020 is the gold standard test.
The Sony Xperia Z3v is has come to Verizon this week and the Sony Xperia Z3 is coming to T-Mobile on October 29, so as always, we compare the camera to all of its competing cameras.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is the gold standard of smart phone cameras. It has a 41 MP Pureview camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, a real xenon flash, and support for taking RAW photos. While the Nokia Lumia 1020 was released almost a year and a half ago in July, 2013, it is one of few smart phones released that long ago that remain relevant.
Last week, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 was released on all of the major carriers. Although the device itself isn’t the best device around, the camera is fantastic, as is with all Samsung devices. When you get a device with a great camera, the next logical step is to compare it to the Nokia Lumia 1020.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is widely renowned as the best smart phone camera. It has a 41 MP camera, RAW support and a real xenon flash. It is a Pureview camera with a Carl Zeiss lens. It’s just great.
So far I have compared the camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to the Sony Xperia Z3, iPhone 6 Plus, and the OnePlus One. The scope of this comparison will be the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Nokia Lumia 1020.
Ever since Nokia sent me a Nokia Lumia 635 to review, I’ve been itching to compare it to the Nokia Lumia 1020. After all, 90% of the time, when you are looking at a photo from a Nokia Lumia 1020, it’s a 5 MP photo. This will be a comparison to see if the 5 MP photo from the Nokia Lumia 635 can stand up to the Nokia Lumia 1020.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 has three settings: 5 MP JPEG, 5 MP JPEG and 35 MP JPEG, and 5 MP JPEG and 35 MP DNG. The 35 MP photo will be 38 MP if the user changes the aspect ratio to 4:3. On the first or the third setting, the user is only seeing a 5 MP photo unless he opens the DNG photo in Photoshop or another photo editing app. If the user shares a photo, it uses the low resolution photo. The only time it uses the high resolution photo is when the user zooms in on the image.
