Lumia 620 Sim Free Windows Smartphone - Magenta

Phone itself great. Small, solid hardware, nice screen, responsive touch. Call quality and loudness sublime- better than iphone. Battery saw me through a day of steady use, two days of light use.However, when outside and cold the touch screen becomes useless. It will suddenly be able to detect your finger even when it is about a centimetre away from the screen, so as you move your thumb to touch another key, it will select all keys in your path. I even had it enter random spaces, add accented characters and generally go haywire. This happened on two seperate phones.Returning it, and I'm going to try the 820. A shame, because the phone is a total steal at the current price and it is great for a light user.

What I can I say about my Lumia 620 other than after 5 days of ownership I am still unable to put it down.Getting a Windows phone was a fairly big leap for me as a long term Android user but I am very happy at this point that I did.ReviewDelivery was fast and efficient as usual from Amazon:In the box was the phone ,a manual, earphones(throw these away they are rubbish), charger and cableSetup:This phone requires a micro sim card to work. I purchased a sim card cutter from Amazon at the same time for about £4 There was something slightly worrying about putting your sim in this machine but all was fine and my sim was transformed in seconds.Inserting the sim and 32Gb SD card was simple and quick.Once switched on the phone booted quite quickly. There was the usual questions about network providers and accounts that you wanted to link to the phone. The whole process was simple and over in less than 5 minutes.HardwareI have not been a big fan of Nokia over the years but the quality of this device has changed my perception of that completely. In the hand this feels like a robust sturdy phone that does not require you to treat it with kids gloves. The removable case slotted easily into position. The phone came with the black one which has a soft matt feel.The screen is simply stunning, vivid bold colors that look great with games and video alike once you have turned off the annoying auto brightness control!I am not a big fan of larger screens and the form factor of this phone is hitting the mark so far. Not too big to fit comfortably in my jeans pocket and not too small so that everything is difficult to read.The battery has proven to easily last a day of what I would describe as moderate to heavy use.Windows Phone 8This has been the biggest surprise to me. The overall experience is brilliant, there are a few minor niggles but the good far outweighs any negatives.Good,pointsThe speed of this device is great, there has not been a single stutter or wait in the 5 days of usage. Considering its hardware specs are not exactly headline making in terms of cpu this is a fantastic result. Windows just zips along nicely.The screen transitions and the overall flow and just nice and give the you the feeling that they have actually thought about the user experience; It all feels very slick/The people hub is brilliant, all of my updates in one place, simple and easy to use, I have found myself using this instead of the individual apps.Nokia's apps that come with the device and are available mainly for free in the store are fantastic. The Nokia drive app is a significant selling point on its own. It is so much better than the google Navigation app on my android. The city lens and maps function are also great additions.XBox integration is seamless and intuitive. Smartglass works well and I like the consolidation of gaming into the one hub.Office comes for free and appears functional for reading documents and presentations. One note integration is excellent. Surprisingly Skydrive wasn't pre-installed and I had to download it, this just works really well.Kids corner is a great addition to the OS, I dont have to worry about my 6 year old being able to get into things he shouldn't whilst playing games on the phone. I had something similar on Android but that was a bit clunky. This works a treat and is simple to configure.One feature i love is the ability to decline an incoming call with a text message from a standard list of responses.Bad points:My one major annoyance so far is the lack of independent volume controls for ringtones and media. If I have had music up quite loud then when the phone rings it is also very loud. I have not found a way yet of setting these independently other than remembering to turn it down.Windows phone 8 has an app called datasense that tracks you phone and data usage on your mobile network, This unfortunately has to be enabled by your carrier and vodafone have not yet done so. I miss the "my vodafone" app that I had on android.No native Sonos app! I have found an alternative called Phonos that works well but would have been nice to have the real thing available.My one fear with Windows phone before purchase was the app availability,but this has not really turned out to be a significant issue. everything I want is there apart from the couple mentioned above.SummaryAll in all I love the Lumia 620 . the wonderful Nokia's hardware and apps, Windows 8 just zips along and is simple and intuitive. Live tiles works as a concept and the platform feels surprisingly mature. So far it has been bullet proof with no crashes or issues at all.This is a great phone at this price point and comes whole heatedly reccomended

I bought this phone as I wanted a change from my Samsung Galxey Mini, and I wish I never changed my phone.The Nokia Lumia is a very nice phone, I like the Windows look but I hate that I can't have the apps I use to have on my old phone, can't have phone charms, and I can't have any kind of notifications. It's a pain. Also the volume quality isn't great. I wouldn't of brought it for £150. It's worse than my old phone that I bought for £80 new. So if your the kind of person that likes your apps, phone charms and notifications then this phone isn't for you. But if you like a simple phone with just Facebook and xbox games, then this is good a good phone.

I'm a first time buyer of a smartphone. I must say, I'm realy impressed by what this phone can do. I particularly like Windows 8, which seems simple and clear compared to Android. I also chose Nokia for it's trusted brand and to give our European industry a chance against the ever invading and not necessarily better Chinese, Korean and US products. Nokia did a great job making a very good and affordable phone. This product includes a music strore with thousands of free songs and a free to use GPS. The app store seems to contain just about everything you could need starting in the smartphone world. On the downside, I'm a bit disappointed by the 5 megapixel camera and the volume button that adjusts all volumes together, i.e. ringtone, phone voice, GPS volume etc. but can forgive these shortcomings given that an iphone costs at least twice the price of this one.

It's a Windows Phone. What's the one thing you cannot do with it? Synch it directly to Outlook on your PC to update contacts, diary etc. You can ONLY do it either via the web or using a third product like Akruto synch, but even then only via wireless. You cannot synch via the USB synch cable, obviously it's technically possible because my iPhone can do it out of the box so Microsoft are actively blocking it. Obviously Microsoft want all your data on their servers, now why do you suppose that is?Well screw Microsoft, they will realise soon enough that the customer is king and I'll never ever buy another microsoft phone.By the way, the active tiles aren't active. The time tile tells you the time you last opened the app and checked the time, and NOT the current time, clever eh?