For readers who are considering buying the Nokia Lumia 1520 or the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, 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 Zoom comes with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, rendering 540 x 960 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 Zoom comes with 125.5 x 63.5 x 15.4 mm dimensions and weighs 208 grams.

Hardware and Operating System

The Nokia Lumia 1520 is equipped with a 2.2 GHz quad core krait 400 processors and Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chipset. It comes with 16 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is equipped with a 1.5 GHz dual core cortex A9 processor and Pega-Dual +XMM6262 chipset. It comes with 8 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB using a Micro SD card.

The Nokia Lumia 1520 runs on the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black operating system and has 2 GB of RAM. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom runs on the Android Jelly Bean operating system and has 1.5 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 Zoom sports a 16 MP primary camera with autofocus, 10x optical zoom, optical image stabilization and Xenon flash. The secondary camera on the device is 1.9 MP.

Battery

The Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a non-removable Li-Ion 3400 mAh battery, which allows for a atlk time of about 25 hours on 3G or music play of about 124 hours. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom comes with a Li-Ion 2330 mAh battery, which allows for a talk time of about 13 hours on 3G or music play of about 46 hours.

Price in Australia

The Nokia Lumia 1520 4G LTE variant is priced at around AU $559.95 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom 4G LTE variant is priced at around AU $389.95 in Australia.

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