Nokia Lumia 1520 (AT&T)

The Lumia 1520 measures 6.4 by 3.4 by .34 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.3 ounces. It's noticeably taller and wider than our Editor's Choice Samsung Galaxy Note 3, thanks to its larger 6-inch screen.

The Nokia Lumia 1520's 20-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch image sensor is almost the size of the sensors found in compact cameras like the Canon PowerShot Elph 330 HS.

Whether it's red, white, black, or yellow, it's slick and beautiful, although a little slippery. My suggestion: Get the red.

The 1520 is clad in glossy polycarbonate, with squared corners.

Microsoft really knows how to arrange furniture. Windows Phone screens always look tight and elegant, never spacy, drifting, or scattered like a poorly-maintained Android phone can look.

The phone has SIM and memory card slots on the left-hand side, although you need to use a SIM removal tool to open the memory card slot. The volume rocker, power button and separate camera key are on the right. Mine felt a little loose.

The Lumia 1520 has all of AT&T's LTE bands and will also work on foreign 2100MHz networks at up to HSPA+ 21 speeds—it isn't banded to work on any other U.S. carrier. Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, NFC, and GPS are also all here.

1080p video looks great. But without a way to get legal, downloadable videos directly onto the phone, it's really missing something.