The Nokia Lumia 820 is one of the first
Windows 8 devices to be available in India. It is a mid-range smartphone
and comes with brightly coloured interchangeable shells. So will this
device going to make any damage on other smart phones? Just have a look.
Design :
Lumia 820 is not a unibody smartphone like Lumia 920. However, it is difficult to judge this aspect of the Lumia 820 at first glance. The front of the screen is taken up by the 4.3-inch WVGA screen. Just below the screen are three soft press buttons - Back, Home and Search and above it is a front facing camera. The side buttons of this smartphone are fairly large and easy to access.
Display :
The Nokia Lumia 820 has a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen with ClearBlack technology. It has 800x480 pixel dimensions translating to a pixel density of 217 ppi.The Lumia 820 doesn't have Gorilla Glass protection but we did not really miss it much on this smartphone.
Software :
The Nokia Lumia 820 runs on Windows Phone 8. This operating system comes as a breath of fresh air and provides an interesting change from the existing range of Android smartphones. The customizable tiles look good and are easy to get accustomed to.
If you are not comfortable with the tile style of the display, you can swipe the screen to the right and see all the applications in the smartphone in an alphabetical order.
Windows Phone 8 also offers the 'People Hub', which helps in assimilating all contacts from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email address book and phone memory in one place.
The smartphone also comes with Microsoft Office pre-installed and for more apps one can hit the Microsoft Marketplace. The other apps available are Cinemagraph, Angry Birds Roost, Panorama, Wallet and CNN.
Camera :
The Nokia Lumia 820 does not come with the PureView branding found on the Lumia 920 and the much talked about PureView 808. But the 8-megapixel shooter on-board is not bad in itself. The pictures clicked from this smartphone are crisp and sharp. The dedicated camera button makes it easy to click pictures and one can use touch gestures to zoom-in or out of the frame.
Performance :
Nokia Lumia comes with a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor accompanied by 1GB RAM, which is adequate to make this smartphone zippy and responsive. We did not experience any lags while multi-tasking on this smartphone.
The smartphone comes with 8GB of internal storage of which 5.1GB is available to the user. One can also add up to 64GB of memory through a microSD card. The Finnish smartphone maker is also offering 7GB of free cloud space through SkyDrive.
The call quality of the smartphone through loudspeaker and the headset is great. Even music playback on this smartphone is pretty good. The in-ear headphones that come with this smartphone are soft and comfortable to wear for longer durations. The smartphone supports MP3 and WAV audio formats and MP4 and AVI (up to 1080p) video formats. However, the native player does not support MKV files.
Verdict :
We found the Nokia Lumia 820 to be a decent offering and a welcome change from the Android smartphones. Though these are still early days for the Windows Phone 8 OS, we can see how the ecosystem has evolved over a period of time.
We think the Nokia Lumia 820 is a well packaged smartphone from the company that delivers a good performance and offers a decent battery backup for the price that it commands.
There are quite a handful of interesting apps, and Microsoft is striving to add more value in this direction and hopefully things will look up for this eco-system as we progress further.
Overall, the device performs well and is a quite an interesting mid-range offering.
Price: Rs. 25,990
Ratings : ( out of 5 )
Design: 3
Display: 3
Performance: 4
Software: 3
Battery Life: 4
Value for Money: 3
Camera: 3.5
Overall: 3.5
Design :
Lumia 820 is not a unibody smartphone like Lumia 920. However, it is difficult to judge this aspect of the Lumia 820 at first glance. The front of the screen is taken up by the 4.3-inch WVGA screen. Just below the screen are three soft press buttons - Back, Home and Search and above it is a front facing camera. The side buttons of this smartphone are fairly large and easy to access.
Display :
The Nokia Lumia 820 has a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen with ClearBlack technology. It has 800x480 pixel dimensions translating to a pixel density of 217 ppi.The Lumia 820 doesn't have Gorilla Glass protection but we did not really miss it much on this smartphone.
Software :
The Nokia Lumia 820 runs on Windows Phone 8. This operating system comes as a breath of fresh air and provides an interesting change from the existing range of Android smartphones. The customizable tiles look good and are easy to get accustomed to.
If you are not comfortable with the tile style of the display, you can swipe the screen to the right and see all the applications in the smartphone in an alphabetical order.
Windows Phone 8 also offers the 'People Hub', which helps in assimilating all contacts from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email address book and phone memory in one place.
The smartphone also comes with Microsoft Office pre-installed and for more apps one can hit the Microsoft Marketplace. The other apps available are Cinemagraph, Angry Birds Roost, Panorama, Wallet and CNN.
Camera :
The Nokia Lumia 820 does not come with the PureView branding found on the Lumia 920 and the much talked about PureView 808. But the 8-megapixel shooter on-board is not bad in itself. The pictures clicked from this smartphone are crisp and sharp. The dedicated camera button makes it easy to click pictures and one can use touch gestures to zoom-in or out of the frame.
Performance :
Nokia Lumia comes with a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor accompanied by 1GB RAM, which is adequate to make this smartphone zippy and responsive. We did not experience any lags while multi-tasking on this smartphone.
The smartphone comes with 8GB of internal storage of which 5.1GB is available to the user. One can also add up to 64GB of memory through a microSD card. The Finnish smartphone maker is also offering 7GB of free cloud space through SkyDrive.
The call quality of the smartphone through loudspeaker and the headset is great. Even music playback on this smartphone is pretty good. The in-ear headphones that come with this smartphone are soft and comfortable to wear for longer durations. The smartphone supports MP3 and WAV audio formats and MP4 and AVI (up to 1080p) video formats. However, the native player does not support MKV files.
Verdict :
We found the Nokia Lumia 820 to be a decent offering and a welcome change from the Android smartphones. Though these are still early days for the Windows Phone 8 OS, we can see how the ecosystem has evolved over a period of time.
We think the Nokia Lumia 820 is a well packaged smartphone from the company that delivers a good performance and offers a decent battery backup for the price that it commands.
There are quite a handful of interesting apps, and Microsoft is striving to add more value in this direction and hopefully things will look up for this eco-system as we progress further.
Overall, the device performs well and is a quite an interesting mid-range offering.
Price: Rs. 25,990
Ratings : ( out of 5 )
Design: 3
Display: 3
Performance: 4
Software: 3
Battery Life: 4
Value for Money: 3
Camera: 3.5
Overall: 3.5
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