Hands on: We play with the slippery Lumia 1520, Nokia's first phondleslab Sometimes you have to leave prejudices aside. To me, phondleslabs (or phablets) – phones with large screens – are inconvenient and slightly ludicrous. If you saw somebody talking into a plate, you’d think they had gone mad. But that’s by-the-by. An amazing number and variety of people find phondleslabs useful. Such as people …
"Considering in lab conditions a recent test put the 1020 behind the Xperia Z1 and iPhone 5S, you may wish to reconsider....."
That site scores photos from the Lumia 1020 at 79/100 versus the Sony Xperia Z1 at 77/100 and the iPhone 5S at 78/100......
Also it doesn't seem that they have re-tested the 1020 since the couple of camera improvement related firmware updates, or the new camera apps....I suspect that the gap in favour of the Lumia is now somewhat larger....
"By next summer a major Windows Phone overhaul should be available to fix these niggles"
Does the author know for sure the (presumably ongoing) Windows Phone overhaul will address those niggles or does he mean that he feels Microsoft is morally obliged to fix it's product ?
I'm guessing the latter, because Microsoft's track record in fixing niggles is pretty poor. For example Excel went through over a decade of releases without ever addressing the ~65K row limit, that was a major niggle in a major product.
"if you've reached the point where just over 65000 rows in a spreadsheet isn't sufficient "
Sometimes you don't get to choose your tools. Cygwin was a huge leap forward not so long ago. It was heartbreaking to be working on problems tailor made for a bit of awk + sed magic with Excel. I sometimes found a way to move those ad-hoc one-shot problems onto a UNIX box, so it wasn't a one sided battle. ;)
"You know the limit in Excel is over 2 million rows?"
I was under the impression it was ~2^20 (as of Excel 2010).
They've got some very cool stuff coming out, and as a WP user (who didn't eBay it after a month, same as most people) it's been a good OS for me. I have a Nexus 7 as well, which is cool but to be honest the app selection is so ridiculous, and it pops up adverts loads and a lot of the apps don't fit a tablet screen. I think I like the idea of Android more than Android itself :)
I enjoy the apps of some of the very committed WP devs, who write some awesome stuff. Best Instagram client I've ever seen is 6tag; won't replace it with the official one when it comes out. Such a beautiful app.
And check out the WP dev tools. So, so nice. I know you need W8, which sucks, but they are light years ahead of adk in terms of productivity. The fact that it's C# and there will never be an R compilation error equivalent (because it's there at language level) sells it to me over Android development :)
But one enquiry - how much does it cost in Hong Kong?
Yesterday's revised iPad and iPad mini on average are 28% cheaper here in HK than the UK - that's a bloody huge saving, so interested in this for sure as normal smartphones are just too small for my ageing eyes and and useless onscreen typing skills - never been able to text, so its a phablet or chic-bar phone I'm afraid.
Surely that was the N9, or maybe the 808.
Lumias have never had that feeling of being truly "Nokia" - maybe it was the fact they were made by Compal on behalf of Nokia, or ran a non-Nokia OS, but so little about them was Nokia apart from the branding and industrial design.
"Microsoft has remained mute on whether today’s models will be upgradeable. I’d be surprised if this one wasn’t."
How quickly you forget the same wishful thinking over WP7->8 upgrades, that only ended when MS finally admitted it wasn't happening just before launch of WP8.
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