1. Nokia Lumia 520
Price: Rs. 8340 (As on Flipkart.com)
The Lumia 520 is Nokia's lowest-end Windows Phone 8 mobile at present. It lacks most of the flair and neat extra touches of the Lumia 620, but yet a solid Windows phone.
In terms of design, the Nokia Lumia 520 is just like its other Lumia siblings. It comes in a host of colours such as yellow, blue, red along with the usual black and white. Since it is not a unibody smartphone, you can access the battery and the SIM slot. The device offers good ergonomics with textured finish giving you a bit of extra grip and the carefully curved rear sits comfily in your hand. Nokia Lumia 520 is slimmer and lighter than the Lumia 620 and Lumia 820. In fact it looks slightly premium in terms of looks when compared with the Lumia 620. The Nokia Lumia 520 is 9.9 thick and weighs 124 grams.
Screen resolution is 800 x 480 pixels, resulting in pixel density of 233ppi. Though, the sharpness is a bit low, it is okay for a low-end phone it's perfectly good. Moreover, its brightness is uncomfortable to gaze upon in most situation.
It has a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8227 CPU and 512MB of RAM. That's the same innards found in the Lumia 720, which is a significantly more expensive phone. It is a pretty good phone for day-to-day operations.
The Nokia Lumia 520 comes with 5-megapixel camera at the rear which can record video at up to 720p. The good thing about the camera is that it is an autofocus rather than fixed focus system, which is usually on-board most budget smartphones. The Nokia Lumia 520 comes with Windows Phone 8, which offers features like enhanced performance, USSD commands support, and resizable live tiles.
The Lumia 520 is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and Adreno 305 GPU. It comes with 512MB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, which is expandable by another 64GB via a microSD card. The company is also offering 7GB of cloud storage via SkyDrive for this smartphone. The Lumia 520 comes with a 1430mAh battery, which is slightly larger than the 1300mAh battery on the Lumia 620.
In short, if you want to go for a phone that is not Android, then you can opt for Nokia Lumia 520.
