For readers who are considering buying the Nokia Lumia 1520 or the Samsung Galaxy S4, here is a specs and price comparison between the two devices in Australia. The comparison could help readers make an informed decision.

Display and Design

The Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a 6 inch IPS LCD capacitive touch screen, rendering 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with a 5 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, rendering 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution.

The Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with 162.8 x 85.4 x 8.7 mm dimensions and weighs 209 grams. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm dimensions and is comparatively lighter, weighing 130 grams.

Hardware and Operating System

The Nokia Lumia 1520 is equipped with a 2.2 GHz quad core krait 400 processor and Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chipset. It comes with 32 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with a quad core 1.6 GHz cortex A15 and quad-core 1.2 GHz cortex-A7 processor and Exynos 5 Octa 5410 chipset. It comes in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

The Nokia Lumia 1520 runs on Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black operating system. The Samsung Galaxy S4 runs on the Android platform and comes loaded with the Jelly Bean operating system. Both the devices have 2 GB of RAM.

Camera

The Nokia Lumia 1520 sports a 20 MP primary camera with Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, autofocus and dual LED flash. The secondary camera on the device is 1.2 MP. The Samsung Galaxy S4 sports a 13 MP primary camera with autofocus and LED flash. The secondary camera on the device is 2 MP.

Battery

The Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a non-removable Li-Ion 3400 mAh battery, which allows for a talk time of 25 hours on 3G or music play of about 124 hours. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with a Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery, which allows for a talk time of about 17 hours on 3G or music play of about 62 hours.

Price in Australia

The Nokia Lumia 1520 4G LTE variant is priced at around AU $949.95. The Samsung Galaxy S4 16 GB variant is priced at around AU $629.95 and the 32 GB variant is priced at around AU $659.95 in Australia.

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