Nokia Lumia 520 Full Phone Specifications
Nokia lumia 520 is the lowest priced phone in lumia segment. Nokia introduced the lumia series with windows 8 mobile OS and now upgraded to windows 8 mobile 'Amber'. The lumia series are known for reliability, speed and crystal clear audio and video at affordable prices. The lumia 520 is a small squary smartphone which has almost all features available at a very reasonable price. The device is available in many attractive colours like yellow,red,cyan,black,white. The people using it may need some time to spend with it before being familiar with the OS. Its not that much user friendly like apple ios or android versions of OS.
This device was announced in february 2013 and hit the markets on april 2013. The device has many underlying features in such a smart budget. Let us see the features.
NETWORK
The device supports 2G and 3G networks. It supports GSM 850,900,1800,1900 in 2G mode, and HSDPA 850,1900,2100 under RM-915 and HSDPA 850,1700,1900,2100 in RM-917. These RM versions show, there are 2 regions available and ones specific to network band demand would be sold there.The device has a micro-SIM support and one needs to cut his existing SIM in a SIM-cutter to adapt it to micro-SIM format.
BODY
The device is 4.72*2.52*0.39 (inches) in dimension and it weighs hardly 120 grams.That is so light like a feather
DISPLAY
The device has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display supporting 16 million colours. The display size is 4 inches approximately and display resolution is 480*800 pixels. The screen has a pixel density of 223 and pretty decent for such a low pricetag,
SOUND
The device has vibration alerts and WAV ringtones. It is also provided with a loudspeaker loud enough for a person and also a 3.5mm jack is provided to listen to audio through external speakers or headphones.
MEMMORY
The device has an internal memmory of 8GB. Hardly 6GB usable. It also supports micro-sd cards upto 64GB and is really a boon. The device has 512MB ram for memmory operations.
DATA
The device has a class B GPRS and an EDGE where it supports upto 236Kbps. HSDPA at 3G network maxes out at 21.1Mbps and HSUPA at 5.76Mbps
CAMERA
The device has a 5MP primary camera and can shoot pictures upto 2592*1936 pixel resolution. It also features autofocus,geo-tagging and features a sensor 1/4 inches in size. The video recording at 720P is supported at 30 frames per second. There is no secondary camera for this smartphone.
FEATURES
The device is pre-installed with windows phone 8 OS which is upgradable to WP8 Amber via OTA or wire update (offline). It is powered by a dual core 1GHZ processor and supported in a walcomm MSM8227 chipset. An Entry level graphics processor, adreno 305 is provided for video and graphic support. The device also features sensors like accelerometer and proximity.It also have HTML5 support. The GPS with GLONASS is supported.
BATTERY
The device is powered with a BL-5J series 1430mah li-ion battery and can provide talktime upto 10 hours max.
FOR
- Dual core CPU at reasonable price
- Windows 8 Amber
AGAINST
- 1430mah battery
- no secondary camera
- Primary camera 5MP with 720P video support
- 512MB ram
