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With my Lumia 928 approaching it's 9 month birthday, and the long rumored Lumia Icon finally launching, it was of course time to spend my $500 work anniversary gift card on an unsubsidized phone purchase. Aside from the Snapdragon 800 chipset upgrade, which blows away the S4 on the 928, I get twice the RAM, twice the resolution (720p vs 1080p) and an extra half-inch of screen size. Amazingly, it does all this weighing only 4 grams more, with all dimensions within 2-3mm of the 928. Sadly, I lose the Xenon flash and glance feature from the 928, the latter of which baffles me, and I hope it will be added back in at some point in the future. I'm glad this 5" moderate beast came to Verizon instead of the 6" 1520 gigantor AT&T got, I just wish Verizon would get on board with external storage like AT&T seems to be happy to approve for devices on their network.