Nokia Lumia 520 Hands on Meeting & Review!

Nokia Lumia 520, was recently unveiled in India as the 'cheapest Windows Phone 8', along with Nokia Lumia 720. Well, the live tiles, vibrant colors: cyan, red, black, yellow and white, crisp display, makes it the most affordable WP8-powered smartphone.

Bloggers' Mind @ Nokia India did extend the invite to Bangalore Bloggers to experience the speed, on 5th April, at The Oberoi, Bangalore. Also, we were in for a Surprise.  Life is a series of surprises, that's what keeps it kicking & interesting!!!

Welcoming @vinuthomas, @arun8gb, @rdotnet, @aravindbk, @normaltusker, @2shar, @nivedithg to the Nokia Lumia 520 hands on
— Nokia India (@NokiaIndia) April 5, 2013

Being a Nokia Windows Phone 8 device, you also get Nokia's built-in navigation apps, now renamed HERE Maps for general mapping and HERE Drive for turn-by-turn navigation. A huge advantage of both is their support for offline mapping. In Maps, for example, you just need to go to Offline Maps in the menu and select the maps you want to download to the phone's internal storage, which will save you any worry about getting lost in low signal areas or racking up huge data costs when abroad.

Key features

    Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
    Quad-band 3G with 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support
    4.0" 16M-color IPS LCD display of WVGA resolution
    5 megapixel autofocus camera with 720p@30fps video recording
    Windows Phone 8 OS
    1 GHz dual-core Krait CPU, Adreno 305 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8227 chipset, 512MB of RAM
    Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band
    GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS support
    Free lifetime voice-guided navigation (with a twist)
    8GB of inbuilt storage, expandable via a microSD card slot
    Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
    Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
    Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
    microUSB port
    Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and EDR, file transfers
    SNS integration
    Xbox Live integration and Xbox management
    Nokia Music
    Extremely competitive pricing

Main disadvantages

    Common LCD lacks the punch of CBD
    A few prominent apps still missing, some apps incompatible due to 512MB RAM
    No FM radio
    No front-facing camera
    No LED flash
    No system-wide file manager
    No lockscreen shortcuts
    Voice-guided SatNav license limited to a single country

I would like to thank Subesh Prakash| Bloggers' Mind, for organizing for Nokia Lumia 520 trial + one on one during the Blogger meet event, sharing some heads up on the Nokia trial line up ..... For more information, please visit: Nokia Lumia 520.

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