HTC One M8 vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Specs, Features, Price: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

By Aishwarya Sep 25, 2014 10:21 AM EDT

HTC One M8 vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Specs, Features, Price: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

The smartphone market is enriched with numerous releases from different manufacturers. Buyers have also become more conscious when time comes for buying new smartphones. The Smartphone world has seen revolutionary changes in last 10 years with wide range of operating systems. Now let's review two devices from operating system Windows 8 and they are Nokia Lumia 1020 and HTC One M8.

HTC One M8 was released in March 2014, which has 5-inch of display size with LCD3 capacitive type display. Its pixel density is 441 with 16M colors while the resolution is 1080 x 1920 HD. The display glass is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 with HTC sense UI version 6. On the other hand Nokia Lumia 1020 comes with 4.5-inch display size with 332 pixel density. The display type is AMOLED with 16M colors with a resolution of 768 x 1280 pixels. It is also protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

HTC One M8 is powered by Qualcomm MSM8974AB Snapdragon 801 processor and the CPU consists of Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400. The GPU consists of Adreno 330. Whereas Nokia Lumia 1020 features Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with Dual-core 1.5 GHz krait CPU and the GPU is Adreno 225. So HTC is clearly leading the chipset segment compared to Lumia 1020. Both the smartphone has 2GB of RAM.

The primary camera of Lumia 1020 is surprisingly huge. It has 41MP which is effective to 38MP camera at rear which comes with lots of features like image stabilization, auto/manual focus, Xenon & LED flash, dual capture and many more. It has the capability to record video at 1080 at 30fps. Whereas HTC One M8 camera sensor has 4MP rear facing camera. Though company has added features like Ultrapixel to provide better experience while shooting it is nowhere near to the recent offerings of smartphone market offers these days.

The operating system of Lumia 1020 is Microsoft Windows 8 upgradeable to v8.1 and the HTC One is operated by Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat), upgradable to v4.4.3 (KitKat). Price tag for HTC One M8 is around $590 where Nokia Lumia 1020 will cost around $680.