Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab : Lumia 1520

You can say phablet, we prefer “phondleslab”. Whatever they’re called, these pocket-busters are certainly an acquired taste. You’re really need to want one, and be prepared to put up with the physical demands, to get the benefits.

As if to acknowledge this, Nokia has made a bit of an extra effort with its first phablet, the Lumia 1520.

 At 6 inches, this slab is absolutely enormous. However it’s packing an excellent oversampling camera, a superb HD display, an enormous built-in battery (3200mAH) which comfortably gives you most of two days use (and longer with light use), and built-in wireless charging.
All on the souped up, quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 hardware platform. The 1520 is the first Windows Phone out of the door to take advantage of this new hardware. WP bobbed along very happily with two cores, but rendering a web page is noticeably faster on this device.
This Lumia is consistent with the design of its pricier siblings - but this rather works against you, here, making it feel “slabbier” than need be. At 209g it's not actually that heavy for its size. But there's no denying that width: while the 1520 is impressively thin, it’s wider than rivals from Samsung and HTC. Nokia’s high end Lumia design motif of squared-off corners also make it feel more forbidding than the Tab, with its much rounder corners.
That said, it feels very solid. The heft (and yellow colour) invited some ridicule during my testing period - one friend compared it to a weapon. Perhaps the designers could have been more be sympathetic to this specialised device category (and its unique physical demands) here, rather than striving for portfolio consistency. Horses for courses, and all that.

Phablets are gadgets for reading, watching video, looking at photos and messaging. Thanks to the superb screen, it’s a great viewing device. Netflix movies were rich and blur free. It's as good as any I've seen on a smartphone, with the bonus of being readable in very bright sunlight, and usable with gloves.

It's a phone, too

I found the call quality to be excellent, with callers remarking on the clarity and richness of the call. (The phone supports HD voice and has four microphones, but beware, it takes a nano-SIM). Nokia has thrown in a new app, Storyteller, which does little more at this stage than caption photos, and create albums by location.
The Beamer app, a nifty sharing application that can display your images on a PC or TV, is also bundled. And the Nokia Camera has been improved, bringing a little order to the chaotic and confusing range of Nokia camera apps. This is the essentially the Camera app that was introduced with the Lumia 1020, with the addition of a simpler interface, while still providing access to several settings like ISO, exposure time and colour balance.
Souce : The Register