<p>They're shiny, that's for sure. Nokia's 1520 phablet and 2520 tablet are great big Microsoft-powered Jolly Ranchers, with their glossy colors and enamel-like finish. They stand out. Will they make you jolly, though? I spent an hour with the phablet, the tablet, and Nokia exec Ifi Majid to try to figure it out.</p><p>The Nokia 1520: Big and DifferentThe 6-inch, 1920-by-1080 Nokia 1520 phablet is a one-handed device, if you're a professional basketball player. I was able to curl my fingers just barely around the edge. It's surprisingly flat, and has that candy-colored finish, like a Smeg fridge or a Ferrari. You won't mistake it for anything else in a sea of Samsung Galaxy Notes.</p><p>Two things stand out here: the camera and the OS. The 1520 has a 20.7-megapixel camera on the back, which makes it the most camera-centric phablet on the market. The camera does the Nokia Lumia 1020's pixel-binning trick and its lossless digital zoom trick, albeit with less to work with. It defaults to a 5-megapixel mode, which combines four pixels into one rather than the 1020's seven-to-one ratio, and it can do 2x lossless zoom rather than the 1020's 3x.</p><p>The 1520 also has a new camera app which - thank goodness - combines Nokia's Smart Camera and Pro Camera apps, giving you plenty of manual options and a lot less confusion. The new app is coming to the 1020 as well, although Majid didn't say when. Majid also showed me "Refocus," a neat new Nokia app that fakes a Lytro effect, blurring out parts of an image you don't want to focus on.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2426078,00.asp">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/22/nokia-lumia-2520-hands-on">Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 2520, Nokia&#039;s first Lumia tablet</a> (Wired.co.uk)</p><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2302130/nokia-lumia-2520-hands-on-review">Nokia Lumia 2520 hands-on review</a> (Inquirer)</p><p><a href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/10/22/all-in-one-the-nokia-lumia-2520-tablet/">All-in-one: the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet</a> (Nokia Conversations)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dmyGtfJboYhDCJMZxWmBdIGEYYCEM&ned=us">820 additional articles.</a></p>