Previously I have looked into some of the pre-installed features and application that I have found interesting and useful in the Nokia Lumia 1520 and also talk of some of the applications that I like which can easily be downloaded from the windows store. The only application missing, in my opinion, was the Blackboard, which I really need... but it is not a deal breaker for me, because I have the Asus Nexus (1st Generation) which had that application installed.
Battery Life
Now that I have the set with me for a couple of days, I have tested the battery life of the Lumia 1520 with some heavy usage (in my opinion). I normally charge my phone at night from 2300hrs (11 p.m) and unplug it the next day at around 0630hrs (6:30 a.m). Then I commute to my workplace, which is around 45min train ride. In this 45 minutes train ride, I read a couple of pages of novel from my Lumia 1520 (which is great because of the big LCD screen and excellent display), surf the net, download pictures from my facebook account, read some mails, chat with some early birds using whatsapp application, all the while listening to music running in the background with volume tuned to 20.
When I reach office, I checked, battery juice drop to around 91% (which is really good, my old phone can never have this efficient usage).
Then I go through my work day, taking a break occasionally with surfing of the net, and listening to music, also playing some games when I am having lunch. I also sent messages and photos to and from my PC using google mails.
All this didn't really affect the battery life of the Lumia 1520.
By the time I reached home at 1930hrs, my battery was still pretty solid. At home, with my phone connected to the Wifi, I began downloading quite abit of application and games, as well as searching for new novels to download and read. And play some games. Then for testing purposes, I played a 720p movie (1hr 37mins) at full volume (level 30).
The phone retired at 44% battery juice, all the while I didn't do any charging. At around 2300hrs to 2330hrs, I plug it in to charge, and began the same cycle again.
It was quite consistent. Maybe my phone is still new, I will do an update if I get anything strange. But with Nokia's usual quality. I am very confident that she is not going to act up that fast.
I believe that if I didn't do anything or do some very light stuff, my Lumia 1520 will get through the day and the better part of next day with no issues at all.
(By the way, I set my screen brightness to Low and touch sensitivity to normal, because the screen is bright enough and the screen is responsive enough for my usage).
Accessories
Well... there isn't much accessories for the Nokia Lumia 1520 yet. Even casing and protective sheet was rare in my country and I needed to search high and low for one. This is something that will definitely change in time, knowing that the Lumia 1520 is pretty new in my country.
One of the few accessories that I would recommend getting first is the nano SIM card adapter. Because the card used is of a unique size that only Nokia and Apple are using at the moment. So if you previously had other phones, you would need that adapter to adapt your card to the old phone and download all the contacts and stuff into the SIM card and transfered to the Lumia 1520.
Then came the casing. There are different types of casing in ebay.com. You can get one pretty cheap, that is... if you can afford to wait (because - at least in my country, the normal time of receiving the products you ordered normally take close to a month time).
You can choose to put or forget about a protective sheet on the LCD screen because it had a corned gorrilla glass 2 which is very scratch resistance and a protective sheet on the screen will somehow reduce a bit of the screen's responsiveness (there is... although most of the time, you wouldn't feel it or was too insignificant that most people will overlook it).
There are two accessories (three to be exact) that came with the Lumia 1520 - the data transfer cable, the adapter and the earphone.
The transfer cable and adapter is common (I mean the function) and up till now, these are still lying in my box because I seriously doesn't need them... I already owned too many adapters with detachable micro USB data transfer cable, so I didn't bother to try them on. I believe it will work just fine.
The earphone (my is white in colour) - the WH-208.
The headset is beautiful in my opinion. It is one of the nicest looking headset I gave ever seen (even coming from a company that make similar products). The headset is a basic headset, with the ability to accept calls by pressing on a dedicated button. and that was about it.
The sound quality is clear and very good.
Another similar earphone that you can be interested in is the Creative MA200 earphone which was very cheap at the moment (S$29). In term of clarity, I would give the edge to Creative earphone (although only at a minimum and almost not noticeable), however, in term of loudness, I would award to the Nokia WH-208.
Of course there are the powerhouse, Creative Aurvana Live!2. This headset had an excellent noise cancellation (you can almost not hear any outside noises and clarity + loudness is incredible.)
I find this headset extremely comfortable.
I will do more reviews on these headsets later on.
Another accessory that I bought soon after receiving the Lumia 1520 was the wireless charger, and it was the wireless charging pillow by Fatboy - I got the black one, there are a couple of different colors available though.
The set came with its main charging cushion, and the adapter.
You just need to put the handset on it, with casing and all. And it will start charging. A note to take was that there is around 5cm distance between the charger to the handset, so you can keep your phone in a casing when doing charging. It will definitely be better if the phone is naked.
The above mentioned are a few accessories that I would recommend having to give you the most pleasant experience with your phone.
Of course there are others like,
1) Bluetooth Keyboard
2) Speaker system
3) etc
In summary
Connecting accessories like earphones to the Lumia 1520 is easy and fuss free. The only issue I have is with the wireless charging which actually take a bit of time between putting the set on the cushion to it started charging and sometime the charging ends intermittently, for example, I used the wireless charger yesterday night, however it must have stopped charging for quite some time, because in the morning I noticed that the handset was only 81% charged.
I believe it was because of the casing I have on the phone. But that shouldn't be the case, because Nokia should understand that most people had put casing on their phone and if that became a problem, then Nokia should really do something about it.
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