The Nokia Lumia 620 has landed.
Nokia’s new offering for entry level devices, the Lumia 620, is available from January 31st from O2 in a variety of cover colours for free on contracts from £49 per month or for £149.99 on pay as you go.
The Lumia 620 in black will be available from February 1st with Virgin and Three, with Vodafone selling cyan and white handsets from February 6th.
Down to business – First Look
The 620 specs aren’t half bad at first glance.
The phone runs Windows Phone 8, like its higher end siblings, the 820 and 920, and has a 3.8″ LCD ClearBlack screen with 800×480 resolution
Using a MicroSIM, the device has 512 MB of RAM with 8GB storage and yes, MicroSD up to 64GB is supported.
The handset runs a 1GHz dual-core SnapDragon S4 processor, same make as the Lumia 820 and 920 but a step down in terms of processing power, which makes sense from a pricing point of view.
The camera is 5MP with a front facing camera installed, auto focus, LED flash and 720p HD video at 30fps.
The handset is light at 127g although still substantive at 11mm thick, slightly thicker than the Lumia 920 and just over 1mm thicker than the 820. It’s 115.4mm high by 61.1mm wide.
Running Windows Phone 8 means pre-loaded apps and tools such as Nokia Music and Maps are available on the phone.
The handset has Bluetooth 3.0, is NFC enabled and can handle WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n, and HSPA+, HSUPA HSDPA, WCDMA on 3G.
The battery capacity is 1300 mAh with a billed maximum 3G talk time of 9.9 hours.
The first play around
The cover is colourful (I got hideously fluorescent yellow matte but there are nicer looking options available including gloss), looks pretty tough and is easy to remove and the phone is light in your hand without feeling like you’re going to snap it. It’s also nice to see a higher end operating system running on an entry level device.
Coming from the 820, the lower powered processor and lesser RAM is immediately obvious – everything takes that much longer to load and maps was a pretty painful affair even on WiFi – it is a lower priced and therefore lower outfitted device, so we’ll have to see how it runs other tasks.
Still loving Nokia Music, and there was no lag in song play etc. The screen res on the 620 is the same as the Lumia 820 and, like its bigger brother, it’s crisp and clear. The screen is small but it’s a cute device and the resolution helps the screen size out a bit.
The 620 started to heat up within the first 20 minutes of use, right around the camera area, which is something to keep an eye on; not fry-your-hand-off hot but a definite noticeable warmth by the lens. It also seems to burn through battery pretty quickly – the first three hours of use reduced the battery from just under half to flat.
The 620’s camera at first glance is good quality and lives up to the Lumia reputation. The photos are crisp and clear, the phone comes with auto-focus and users can download Smart Shoot. Close up also works well and, in all, it’s a good little camera phone so far.
William Blake’s grave
Close up
Nice lighting effects, Nature
