VERDICT : A must if your budget is ~8000 bucks.
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| Nokia Lumia 520 |
Rohit Jain | 01 nov. 13
Pros:- The adorable part of phone and its USP is its design, every Lumia phone comes with Stamp-of-good-design.
- the rectangular design looks premium with sharp edges.
- Phone's camera is awesome & mind-blowing, digital lences provided by Nokia like smart shoot, panorama,Nokia camera, cinemagraph makes its one of the best contender in budget phone segment. Although the flash is missing but in case of indoor photography where the light is incident directly on the object still good results found. Manual controls is also provided (such as iso, exposer, shutter speed etc.)
Its camera provides focusing the objects like in PnS cameras and believe me its working smarty and detects the focal length to the object in the centre of screen while focusing, Touch focus it is also provide but is it is not give the optimum results relatively.
Also you can control focal length in Nokia camera app. - The beautiful thing about phone is it its User Interface and live tiles, they are two adoring and attractive.
- The touch screen is capacitive and runs like butter. muhhhaah
- The screen size is 4'' (personally i thinks 4''-4.8'' is the range of comfort).. phone comes easily in hand. Also resolution is descent with a descent ppi.( 480 x 800px & 233 ppi).
- Internet explorer is too good (the ease of browsing), switches between the mobile sites or dekstop sites based on your preferences, but there is no adobe flash support(not a big issue).
One must have improvement should be provided to control of pop-up window.(i.e. in some sites popup appears automatically or by clicking action but in desktop it appears in new window/tab but in IE for windows phone it appears frequently in the same tab & overlaps your original tab, except overall browsing is fluid in it :)
Also thanks to third party browser apps for the better file downloading management. - I think 512MB RAM is sufficient to this phone[more precisely cheap windows phones(not low-end windows phones)],, as windows phone architecture is quite fluid and its rarely deal with a phone hang. Also there is neglegible frequency of application crashes.
- In the price range of 7000-7800k(yes,it is varying these days), this phone is really a must have.
- The battery backup is also quite good and it charges quickly as well.
- we can choose favourite photos it in the Photo-app so that these can be appeared as photo app background & shown on the live tiles.
- Cloud management of contact is a very good idea so that no fear of losing contacts and also synced with your windowsPC and outlook, linking contacts to the facebook and other services update latest contact photo(non-of-us updates contact photos manually!)
- HERE maps provides too good navigation. also you can download yours region maps for free that work even when if eventually out of network coverage.
- You can switch the back covers of your own colour choice everyday, because Nokia provides its officially, named as CC-3068.
- Some would say there are few apps available in windows phone Store but almost all the major apps are available and you won't need others than these apps. and the success of windows phone attracting developers on and on.
- Free Office app provided by Microsoft , the app is too good.
Cons:
- The File manager is missing, that leads to various limitations like sharing a particular file type, knowing details of file like size etc.
- Lack of flash is too disappointing! even in the successor phone Lumia 525 there is no flash, that phone have one major improvement of 1GB RAM.
- To share a file via bluetooth to a device you have to pair them first.
- You can't seek while playing music like that in video you can. to seek you have to long press 'next' button.
- No secondary camera.
- No provision of advanced sync setting i.e. to sync photos or not & No selective sync such as which facebook Albums to sync etc.
- No USB tethring support.
- Calling a contact by the contact list is too procedural task ,,can be improved by updates.
- Volume control for the phone and voice call is same & must be different control provided.
- As there is no app in the store for the password protection of some apps(as in android) like access protection of messages, whatsapp, facebook, chats etc.
- So its a request to do some work in privacy control.
- The internal is 8GB , and usable is ~6GB. although you can extend it with a SD card but as app will only install in internal memory and you can't move apps to SD card.
- .xap file are similar to .apk file in android but there are too limitation in installing apps from these.(Because removing limitations encourages piracy so its good too)
- No pc companion software for advance control.
- No compass, missing HERE-city lens(formerly known as Nokia-city lens)
- No Auto-rotate control. Although it will be fixed in the Lumia-Black update.
- Limitation to run a task in background such as torrent, background file downloading etc.
- Some apps are paid in windows store that are free on other platforms.
- oh yes Kids corner is such a waste thing.
