The issue may lie in Windows Phone OS coding

Oct 6, 2014 09:02 GMT  ·  By

I’ve been using the Nokia Lumia 1520 and Samsung Galaxy S5 for quite a while and I’ve noticed a few differences when it comes to how much content you can see on each one’s display.

For example, every time I receive a message on WhatsApp Messenger, I always see less text on the Lumia 1520 than on the Galaxy S5, so I have to scroll down to read the whole message if it’s longer.

The same applies for emails, though I believe this rather has something to do with the email client. It appears that the Lumia 1520’s email client does not encode the text in the email for better efficiency, while the Galaxy S5’s does it so you can read as much text as possible without having to scroll down.

This is terribly bad for Nokia Lumia 1520 due to the fact that its size does not recommend it for one-hand use. It would have been great to be able to read an entire email or message without having to scroll down on the Lumia 1520, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

I’ve been trying to do another test and see if this applies to .txt files and noticed that Nokia Lumia 1520 displays slightly more content than the Samsung Galaxy S5.

The difference, as you can see in the screenshots attached in the gallery, is negligible, but there’s one problem that affects the Lumia 1520 still. It appears that, due to bad encoding, some characters are not recognized when the .txt file is opened with Word.

The Lumia 1520 is not at fault here, but Windows Phone

I’m talking about commas and quotation marks, which are marked as question marks by Word. I mostly use my smartphones for emails rather than for reading .txt files, so the fact that I’m seeing less text on such a huge display is annoying at least to say.

The good news is Nokia Lumia 1520 is not at fault. I believe it’s a software issue with Windows Phone, as the problem manifests in both email client and instant messenger applications. I would also like to point out that both smartphones were set to display small fonts.

I’m not sure whether Microsoft is aware of this problem yet or if it plans a fix in the next OS updates. In fact, I’m not even sure if it’s considered an issue by Windows Phone users, but I do know this greatly bothers me.

I’m not sure if anyone else noticed this, but I already mentioned this finding in our Nokia Lumia 1520 review, along with other good and bad aspects. Let me know in the comments section if this issue bothers you in the least and whether or not you have found a solution.

Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Nokia Lumia 1520 text comparison (2 Images)

Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Nokia Lumia 1520 email comparison
Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Nokia Lumia 1520 .txt comparison
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