Verizon has needed a new Windows Phone 8 flagship, and Nokiawas the obvious choice to deliver it. Don’t mistake the Lumia Iconfor a side-thought in Nokia’s smartphone schemes, however. On paper, at least, it takes the key things we loved from AT&T’s Lumia 1520, and distills them down to a more hand-friendly scale. Does reality live up to those high expectations? Read on for the SlashGear review.

Design

The Lumia Icon’s design is a little as though the Lumia 925 of last year went into prison, spent most of its days pumping iron in the yard, and then emerged at the end of its sentence big, blocky, and a little intimidating. Nokia has reused the idea of smooth, matte metal around the edge, with glass on one side and polycarbonate plastic on the other, but where the Lumia 925 was curved and almost organic in the hand, the Icon feels more imposing.
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