Which of these smartphones is worth the purchase? The Nokia Lumia 1320, The Lumia 1520, or the Xiaomi Mi3.
For the design and display, both the Nokia Lumia 1520 and the Xiaomi Mi3 share the same display resolution of 1920 x 1080, but with different screen sizes. The Xiaomi Mi 3 comes with a 5 inch display, while its Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a much larger 6 inch display. The Nokia Lumia 1320 comes with a 6 inch display also, but a different resolution of 1280 x 720.
The Xiaomi smartphone is the thinnest among the three, measuring 144 x 73.6 x 8.1 mm, while the thickest device is the Lumia 1320, measures 164.2 x 85.9 x 9.8 mm. The Nokia Lumia 1520 measures 162.8x 85.4 x 8.7 mm. The Lumia 1320 weighs 220 grams, while the Lumia 520 is at 209 grams, and Xiaomi Mi3 is at 145 grams.
For the hardware and OS, the Xiaomi Mi3 and Nokia Lumia 1520 have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad core processor. The Chinese smartphone has the advantage due to its newer processor build, although the same Snapdragon 800, and the Tegra 4 option that comes with it. The Nokia Lumia 1320 has a weaker dual core Snapdragon processor.
The Lumia 1520 has 32 GB of internal memory space, more than the 8 GB included with the Lumia 1320. The Xiaomi Mi3 comes in 16 and 64 GB variants, which balances out the fact that it doesn't support microSD cards, as opposed to the Nokia smartphones. The Mi3 and Lumia 1520 comes with 2 GB of RAM, while the Lumia 1320 only has 1 GB of RAM.
The two Nokia smartphones run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 (Black Edition), while the Xiaomi smartphone works on the MIUI V5 operating system, which is based on Google’s Android JellyBean.
For the battery and camera specs, the Xiaomi Mi3 has a 13 MP camera on the rear and a 2 MP camera on the front . The Lumia 1520 has a 20 MP, which is placed on the rear side. However, the front facing camera of the Lumia 1520 is weaker than the Xiaomi’s, only 1.2 MP. The Lumia 1320 has a 5 MP camera on the back and a VGA lens on the front.
The battery included with the Mi3 has 3050 mAh while the two Nokia devices have 3400 mAh.
The Nokia Lumia 1520 is at $500 and the Lumia 1320 is about $270. The Xiaomi Mi3 is worth $430 on amazon.com.
Which of these smartphones is worth the purchase?
