Nokia Lumia 820 User Reviews

JojoGo101 posted on 11 May 2013, 17:15

9

Blasts Android phones in the midrange!

JojoGo101 has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I could have sworn the display was more than 480p. I mean, it's brilliant. On WP, you see a lot of blacks, unlike Android which is very color full. The Display was beautiful, compared to an S3 mini, which was poor. All though the PPI on the Lumia 820 was lower, the S3 mini shows pixels at a longer distance, while at normal distance(The distance you normally use your phone) the 820 shows no pixels at all! Honestly, I was shocked. WP has most of the apps I use, so I don't really care about apps and games. The glossy back on my white Lumia 820 feels compact and doesn't feel like a brick at ALL. Heck, it only feels a tad thicker than the likes of an S3. It's the PERFECT size phone. I assure you. Please, buy the phone, you won't regret.

Build quality 10/10 Top-Notch, feels WAY more premium than a more expensive S3

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10 IE10 is impressive!

Multimedia 10/10 I thought it was an HD phone sometimes.

Camera 10/10 Those neat features are nice.

UI speed 8/10 Was a wee bit slow when scrolling through the start screen, maybe cause i'm used to Quad core phones.

Everyday usage 10/10 Smooth, and I can rely on it.

Text input 10/10 No Sywpe-like features like on Android 4.2 but it's a VERY good keyboard

Display 10/10 For a 480p phone, its the best of it's class. The Clearblack and AMOLED display shows not blacks.. but pure blacks. WAY better than 480p droids

Battery 8/10 Not the best, but got me through the day. An extra 1 point for wireless charging.

Pros

• Smooth like iOS
• Bright
• Shows midnight blacks

Cons

• Best 480p phone, but face it, it's 480p anyways.
• Battery could be better!

JojoGo101 alternatives:

Nokia Lumia 720

Nokia Lumia 620

Nokia Lumia 920

spqwerty posted on 15 Jan 2013, 05:55

9

Two Thumbs up for this mini beast

spqwerty has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

A good phone for after having an Arc s, UI is smooth sexy and its unique. Everything is pretty much good. Xbox games should be bought. you can try some apps. apps store growing weekly. can't send music via bluetooth.

Build quality 10/10 Strong enough even for some drop tests i guess.

Reception 9/10 Didn't have any problem with the reception. its clear as well

Call quality 10/10 Pretty clear

Internet 9/10 Internet works well

Multimedia 9/10 Buffers videos really well.

Camera 9/10 Camera is good. Extremely good when your using the apps like smart shoot, panorama, bing vision is amazing, etc.

UI speed 10/10 Sexy UI, pretty strong compared to Android and Apple. Very responsive and in everyway its fast

Everyday usage 10/10 way above the average. Good to use

Text input 8/10 Works well, but when you want to erase a letter or something its really annoying.

Display 10/10 Excellent

Battery 8/10 Battery went down to 25% after playing games through out for about 3 or 4 hours. Good enough to hold up for a day after a reasonable consumption of battery.

Pros

• Build quality
• UI
• OS
• Camera

Cons

• No radio
• most of the apps in the market should be bought
• low resolution

murali1224 posted on 10 Jan 2013, 05:27

9

best to buy

murali1224 has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

so far no problems ...main drawback is lack of gorilla glass screen, games and apps.....this is the most intresting phone i had so far....smooth back panel ,its really awesome.....its a cheap smart phone to buy

Build quality 9/10

Reception 8/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 9/10

Multimedia 9/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 9/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 8/10

Display 9/10

Battery 8/10

Pros

• good built
• fast processor
• good camera quality
• awesome windows 8 os
• nokia city lens
• easy way of geting connected with social network
• wireless charging facility

Cons

• little heavy
• less games and app
• no gorilla glass screen

damago1 posted on 06 Jan 2013, 22:55

7

Great windows os, excellent build, poor phone

damago1 has owned it for less than 3 months before publishing this review

If you want to use the phone straight out of the box - it is a great phone.

Great build quality. I dont like light plastic feeling phones. I don't understand run for lighter smaller phones. I prefer better build quality and larger battery instead. Nokia gives at leat the first one.

Hardware wise the problems are: very poor call quality. Everybody noticed that I have changed the phone. I was nearly unrecognizable. In despair tried to use earphone with the microphone and finally gave up for another phone.

The phone hangs from time to time. And does it while being locked (at least mine did). To turn it on again you need to do the two button reset (vol- and power).

Os: Windows phone 8 (wp8) is a fantastic idea. There is a great pleasure in using the phone. User experience I can say is much better the with IOS even. The metro tiles are great idea. Very clear, ergonomic icons, nicely designed. No comparison with other platforms.

Better selection of apps than on android. Yes, I really mean this. For instance on android to choose a podcasting application there is a choice of 50+ applications, 40 of which are very poor quality. Here I found just a few apps, all perfectly doing their work. Not overloaded with useless features.

And you have this great feeling untill you will encounter one of many annoying limitations which will be a deal stopper for you. Because unlike with android or even symbian the phone api will not allow developpers fixing microsoft's limmitations.

For me...  

If you want to use the phone straight out of the box - it is a great phone.

Great build quality. I dont like light plastic feeling phones. I don't understand run for lighter smaller phones. I prefer better build quality and larger battery instead. Nokia gives at leat the first one.

Hardware wise the problems are: very poor call quality. Everybody noticed that I have changed the phone. I was nearly unrecognizable. In despair tried to use earphone with the microphone and finally gave up for another phone.

The phone hangs from time to time. And does it while being locked (at least mine did). To turn it on again you need to do the two button reset (vol- and power).

Os: Windows phone 8 (wp8) is a fantastic idea. There is a great pleasure in using the phone. User experience I can say is much better the with IOS even. The metro tiles are great idea. Very clear, ergonomic icons, nicely designed. No comparison with other platforms.

Better selection of apps than on android. Yes, I really mean this. For instance on android to choose a podcasting application there is a choice of 50+ applications, 40 of which are very poor quality. Here I found just a few apps, all perfectly doing their work. Not overloaded with useless features.

And you have this great feeling untill you will encounter one of many annoying limitations which will be a deal stopper for you. Because unlike with android or even symbian the phone api will not allow developpers fixing microsoft's limmitations.

For me this were:
- no silent mode. Really! You cannot turn off the ringer and vibration off other way than going through settings screens. And what is worse: there will never beban app to fix it because wp8 api is not allowing access to phone settings. Forget one touch silent mode, forget silent mode timer apps turning phone silent for a duation of a meeting. Forget timer based, charger based modes. Forget all this.
- The same applies to bluetooth, wifi, and any other settings.
- if you are missing weekly view from a calendar or any cal. Related function: sorry. Api disallows you even editing calendar entries.
- no possibility to synchronize the phone with outlook 2010. Sorry, windows phone cannot talk to it's own products. Unless you are willing to both pay $10 for a third party app which will synchronize it via ... Google account. Or you will spend few hundred bucks for windows 8 and outlook 2013.
- annoying thing: when you play some music, and then stop it, you loose the possibility to set the ringer volume. Every time you press volume button it is adjusting the music player vol which is ... Not playing anything. And no ringer volume in settings. You have to reboot.

- no all the time visible battery and reception indicators. For a phone with a very poor reception and a battery barely surviving one day it is a bad idea. And again: somebody would write an indicator app .... But api does allow ststus every 30mins only
This were problems for me, you will probably find other

Build quality 10/10

Reception 5/10

Call quality 3/10 Everybody noticed that I have changed the phone. I was nearly unrecognizable. In despair tried to use earphone with the microphone and gave up.

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 3/10

Text input 9/10

Display 10/10

Battery 2/10 I don't know how can the phone have theoretical 10 hrs talk etc. It does not survive one full day on battery. And forget weekend without charger

Pros

• Great nokia collection apps
• Wp8: great out of the box phone to start using
• Wp8: great user pleasure and os ergonomics

Cons

• Very poor call voice quality
• Nokia did not add breathing light to this phone
• Wp8 problem: no silent mode
• Wp8 problem: api which is causing that many usefull apps will never exist
• Battery which can not last one single day if you use the phone