Nokia Lumia 520 GoPhone (AT&T) Review

Nokia Lumia 520 GoPhone (AT&T)  Review

It's not a good fit for app enthusiasts, videophiles or shutterbugs—or anybody in a hurry on the mobile Web—but if you just need an affordable phone that brings you simple Web access and helps you stay on top of your schedule and your social circles, this Windows Phone 8 model deserves a look.

Size, Screen, and Storage
The compact, relatively thick dimensions of the phone—4.72 by 2.51 by 0.38 inches—vaguely remind me of the first iPhone. Like that pioneering model, the 4.37-ounce 520 feels right-sized for single-handed use in a way that today's enormophones never could.
The grippy plastic back peels off to reveal an easily replaced battery, plus micro-SIM and microSD slots. You need to pop out the battery to get at either of the card slots, and the sideways orientation requires wiggling the card back and forth before you can extract it.
The 4-inch display, at 800 by 480 pixels, falls short of Retina standards and seems unnecessarily small given the wide bezel around it. But you have to hold the phone pretty close to your face before you can discern individual pixels, and it's fine overall. All of the buttons line up on the right-hand side: Volume, Power and Camera. A headphone jack is up top, and there's a micro-USB port is at the bottom, but you have no video-out jacks.
An advertised 8 GB of storage space translates to a theoretical upper limit of 7.23 GB, with 4.52 GB available in a fresh configuration.

Call Quality, Battery Life, and Bandwidth
The 520 works well at reproducing the human voice. Voice Mail messages left in standard and speakerphone modes sounded equally clear, although the latter failed to capture a whispered segment. The phone's integrated noise cancellation effectively hushed an arriving subway train, and the correctly recognized most voice-dialing instructions made through a Plantronics Bluetooth hands-free kit. 
An observed eleven hours of talk-time battery life beat Nokia and AT&T's estimates by more than an hour and exceeded what we saw on the 520's T-Mobile-specific sibling, the Lumia 521$69.99 at Amazon, by almost two and a half hours.
The 520, however, fared worse than the 521 at delivering mobile broadband. Ookla's Speedtest.net application clocked a peak download speed of 5.3 Mbps on AT&T's signal in the Washington, D.C. area. Wi-Fi can be much faster, but the 520 didn't detect a nearby 5GHz network.
Camera, Connectivity, and Apps
The 520's photo and video capabilities also evoke the original iPhone: You have one camera on the back (sans flash) and no front-facing camera. That 5-megapixel sensor can take decent photos with good lighting and a bit of luck, but too many showed an off white balance or a distracting, gauzy glow around illuminated areas. Indoors, you'd better have an extremely steady hand as you gently press the shutter button.
The camera does better at moving pictures than still images, keeping close to 30 frames per second in wildly varying lighting, although the footage quickly got grainy as the scene got dimmer.
Nokia throws in some useful photo apps. Cinemagraph lets you quickly crank out a looped, animated image, while Smart Shoot combines  a series of photos to craft an improved group portrait, and PhotoBeamer allows you to drive a slideshow on the screen of an adjacent device. The clumsy Panorama app, however, requires you to aim at a series of circles on the screen instead of simply panning in one direction.
(You can also access most of these apps through the lens plug-in button in the main camera app, which should reduce the odds of users ignoring them in a long line of apps.)
AT&T throws in a few of its own apps. Make the redundant, $9.99-per-month AT&T Navigator the first you uninstall. Unfortunately, the carrier has yet to support Microsoft's Data Sense app, which helps you track your bandwidth usage—a key concern given the limited allocations of most GoPhone plans.
Windows Phone 8 handles all of the major audio and video formats except for QuickTime. The 520 also supports one audio format unmentioned in AT&T's spec sheet: FM radio, which is available as long as you have a headphone cable connected to serve as its antenna.
The Windows Phone app inventory continues to trail that of Android and iOS, forcing users to look for more obscure alternatives to some name-brand apps. The platform's increasing popularity—it's now broken past 10 percent in some European markets—suggests this gap will narrow, but you have to be prepared to live with it today.
Conclusions
Were the Lumia 520 on AT&T's subscription service, this phone would be an awful deal. Its low price would soon vanish in higher monthly rates set to subsidize the purchase of pricier hardware. Instead, you can easily get by with a $60/month bill. The camera and battery life could be better, and the mobile-broadband speeds should be faster, but you could do far worse in a starter smartphone.

zte blade q mini

Last year Motorola released the excellent Motorola Moto G and, in doing so, set a new benchmark for affordable smartphones.
For all the excitement surrounding yearly flagship releases, the middle and lower tier markets are boasting the likes of the Moto G, Sony Xperia M and Nokia Lumia 520. Gone are the days when you had to spend over £200 for a quality smartphone.
Enter ZTE, the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world with the ZTE Blade Q Mini: a £60 Android handset that punches well above its weight both in terms of design and features.
That low price does come with a couple of caveats. For starters, it's only available as a PAYG handset and secondly, the Blade Q Mini is exclusive to the Virgin Media network.
It's unlikely the Blade Q Mini will sway serious shoppers from the Motorola Moto G but if you're looking for a temporary replacement, secondary handset or a child's first-time smartphone, then it's very difficult to argue with this offering from the Chinese company.

Looks-wise, it's standard smartphone fare with a lack of physical buttons - thanks to Android's soft-key configuration - and smart rounded corners with a minimal bezel.
The 126 x 64 x 9mm dimensions and 120g weight mean it sits comfortably in the hand with just the right amount of heft to it.
Perhaps in response to the "phablet" movement, we're seeing something of a comeback for the smaller screen thanks to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini and the HTC One mini.

The ZTE Blade Q mini fits into this bracket with a 4-inch WVGA display that means you can easily use it with a single hand.

The 800x480 resolution isn't enough to impress these days, but remember I'm talking about a £60 phone here.
The back of the device is covered with a soft, rubberised plastic similar to that found on the back of the Google Nexus 5. It means it's easy to grip the Blade Q mini and I also found it gave it a slightly more premium appearance than if ZTE had just gone with basic plastic.

On the right and left hand side you'll find volume rocker and microUSB charging slot respectively. The top of the phone is reserved for the power switch and the 3.5mm headphone jack. There's nothing but the microphone on the bottom of the chassis.
By having the power switch on the top of the device, you have to shift your grip to switch the phone on and off again. I think ZTE missed a trick by not putting the power button where the microUSB port is.
Had this been the case, you would be able to switch both the power switch and the volume rocker without having to move your fingers or thumb from the traditional position.

The only other buttons are the soft-touch Android keys at the base of the screen. Back, Home and Settings respectively, these keys light up when the phone is activated and are pleasingly responsive.
Sometimes lower-tier smartphones require hard jabs at the navigation keys to register any effect, but that isn't the case here. Haptic feedback is also present, but this can be disabled when the ZTE Blade Q Mini is put on silent mode.
This entire rear panel is removable via a tricky slot on the bottom right, which lets you get to the interior of the Blade Q Mini. Inside you'll find the 1,500 mAh battery as well as the SIM and microSD slots.

One nice feature is a notification light in the top left-hand corner. It will blink at you when you have an incoming email or text, and also acts as a gauge when charging the battery; switching from red to green when you're charged.
While the Blade Q Mini does boast a rear-facing 5MP camera, there's no forward-facing equivalent for taking selfies or using video-chat apps. This isn't a huge omission and isn't surprising given the budget nature of the phone.

As you'd expect on a handset with this price point, you're going to want to be reaching for a microSD card pretty quickly. The Blade Q mini is equipped with a piffling 4GB of internal storage space. Throw in pre-installed apps and the operating system itself and you've only got about 1.5GB to actually work with.
I would recommend equipping the Blade Q Mini with at least a 16GB microSD card if you plan on using it to listen to music, download apps or take a lot of pictures.
As it is, the ZTE Blade Q Mini runs nicely and, given the asking price, is comparable to rival Android phones like the Acer Liquid Z2 or Huawei Ascend Y300.
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Nokia Lumia 520 Review

The Nokia Lumia 520 was the fifth Windows Phone 8 handset from the Finnish firm and it slots into the very bottom end of the range, just below the Nokia Lumia 620.
And we do mean just below – the specs of the 520 and 620 are remarkably similar, meaning that Nokia's main competition at the bottom end of the market is itself. There's also the mid-level Lumia 625 that Nokia released last November and the newer Lumia 630 and Lumia 635.
Otherwise, its biggest rival is the Huawei Ascend W1 – a low-end handset that we're rather fond of.
Of course if you look beyond Windows Phone there's a whole host of Android competitors, chief of which is the superb Motorola Moto G – a smartphone that pretty much redefined what a 'budget' handset could be.
There are other options to, of course, such as the ZTE Blade Q Mini or the HTC Desire 610, which was announced at MWC 2014 in Barcelona.

But here's something that may have a bearing on whether you buy the Lumia 520 – the phone is now the world's top-selling Windows Phone 8 handset, thanks to its impressive specs and low-end price.
What's more, it was the third best-selling phone in the UK in December 2013 according to Jim Belfiore, the VP of operating systems at Microsoft.
This little handset has also just been on the receiving end of Nokia's Lumia Black system update that adds some extra functionality to the device as well as some new features to play with. More on that later.
The Nokia Lumia 520 has a fairly generous 4-inch, 480 x 800 display and is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and 512MB of RAM.
That may not sound like much but the power matches the Lumia 620, and we had few qualms about the performance of that phone given its price. The screen is actually slightly bigger than that of the Nokia Lumia 620, which only has a 3.8-inch display.
You can now pick the Nokia Lumia 520 up from £99.95 SIM free or from £69.99 if you buy it locked on a PAYG deal, making it incredibly affordable.

That means a decent saving for those who don't mind committing to a network. It's cheaper than the Nokia Lumia 625 too.
At first glance it's certainly an impressive handset for the price, easily competing with the similarly priced Ascend W1 and potentially rendering the Nokia Lumia 620 redundant.
In fact, given that it has similar specs, a bigger screen and a better battery, you might be wondering why the Lumia 520 is considered lower-end than the 620.

Well, there are a few reasons. First off, the Nokia Lumia 520 doesn't have NFC. It also doesn't have a camera flash or a front-facing camera, plus there's no compass built into it. And while the screen is slightly bigger, it still has the same resolution, resulting in a marginally lower ppi.
But we don't consider any of them to be deal breakers, and depending on how you plan to use the phone they may well be things you can happily live with - especially for £70.
Like all recent Nokia handsets there's a lot of colour in the Nokia Lumia 520. It shares the look of other Lumia devices, with a single piece of smooth plastic covering the back and sides of the phone.
That shell is available in black or white, but the bright shades of yellow, blue and red on offer will appeal if you like it loud.
If nothing else, it makes Nokia handsets stand out from the crowd. Regardless of the colour, it's quite a nice looking phone in other ways, with an angular, rectangular design more in line with the higher end Nokia Lumia 920 than the curved edges of its closest relations – the Nokia Lumia 620 and 625.

It's certainly a more distinctive (and I'd argue classier) look than that of the Lumia 620 – which is odd considering the Lumia 520 is supposed to be the more basic option.
It's also slimmer and lighter than the Lumia 620, at a fairly sleek 9.9mm and 124g. At 119.9x64mm it is longer and wider than the Lumia 620, but that's understandable given that it's also got a slightly bigger screen.
I like the feel of it too. The plastic casing seems almost warm, making it nice to hold, and it's not as slippery as it might look – so getting a firm grip on the handset is no problem.

The almost jagged corners can dig into your hand a little when held in certain positions, but it's at worst slightly uncomfortable and easily avoided by adjusting your grip.
The front of the Nokia Lumia 520 is mostly screen as you'd expect and at 4-inches it's a decent size for a low-price handset. The pixel density of 233 pixels per inch also isn't bad at all for the money you're paying. Sure, it's dwarfed by the likes of the 469ppi HTC One, but it's also many times cheaper.
A huge plus is the ability to use gloves with the screen too – being able to type in the cold weather is becoming a really common ability on phones, but I'm impressed Nokia managed it on such a cheap handset.

Unlike some handsets, the screen here isn't edge-to-edge: there's a black border running the entire way around it. At the sides this border is fairly narrow, but it becomes quite wide at the top to make room for the earpiece and a Nokia logo. It's even wider at the bottom, because that's where you'll find the start, back and search softkeys.
The back of the handset is almost featureless, with just a small Nokia logo in the centre, the 5MP camera lens near the top and a tiny loudspeaker near the bottom.
The right edge of the handset houses all of the phone's physical buttons, with a volume rocker at the top, a power button near the middle and a camera button near the bottom. The layout works well, with the buttons spaced far enough to prevent confusion.

The left edge is devoid of any features, ports or buttons at all. The top is home only to a 3.5mm headphone port on the left-hand side.
The bottom edge has a micro USB port in the centre, which is used for charging or connecting the Nokia Lumia 520 to a computer.
The back cover is easy to remove – you simply use your nails to peel it away at each corner. The cover itself feels reasonably sturdy, so I don't see it snapping even if you take it on and off a lot.

Once that has been removed, you'll have access to the 1430 mAh battery (which interestingly, is bigger than the 1300 mAh battery found in the Nokia Lumia 620).
Underneath the battery there are two slots – one for a micro SIM card and one for a microSD card. The Nokia Lumia 520 supports up to 64GB cards, which comes in very handy for bulking up the storage from the fairly limiting 8GB of onboard memory.

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LG G2 - A review about the beastly smartphone LG G2

The LG G2 is the beastly smartphone that is LG's recognition to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. It's a massive, yet not totally unwieldy, smartphone brimming taking into consideration specs that would make the most discerning geeks drool.
So far afield away, LG has been a preoccupied cry from where Samsung and HTC locate themselves in terms of popularity and smartphone ownership. And surrounded by the latter two, Samsung is in reality dominating the ventilate.

With the G2, it seems bearing in mind LG took a lot of cues from its Korean counterpart and built what many called a Galaxy S4 clone. It's large, made of lots of plastic, shaped similarly and is jam-packed as soon as more features than a single person can handle.
During its New York City presentation, we were a little baffled at what LG established to put the accent on as the G2's key features. The first and most evident is the placement of the power button and volume control keys.

LG went to enjoyable lengths to inform how it was listening to customers and observing their usage patterns. Somehow it all led to the awkward placement of those buttons, along once a few supplementary things the phone can obtain.
In terms of price, the LG G2 is lording it more than rivals as some outlets are offering it for 399 concerning PAYG, and 349 SIM forgive - that's unaided 100 or 50 on zenith of the Google Nexus 5, which is modelled partly coarsely speaking this device. Given Google's model is subsidised beautiful heavily, that's an excellent price for a phone which outdoes the more costly Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5S in the knack stakes.
Contract pricing is pretty era-fortunate compared to the rivals (which makes that PAYG price all the more perplexing) but the G2, then more power than you can shake an S Pen at, is actually cheaper than the S4 bearing in mind hint to the order of saintly familial in a few places.
LG isn't going to outsell the Galaxy S4 and HTC One, even subsequent to the annoyed 'Everything's Possible' huge publicity toss around, but agreement's believe a see at how the phone itself fares adjoining its Android competitors.

Design
Diving right into what powers the LG G2 and makes it purr, you'll first declaration a 5.2-inch 1920 x 1080 display, which gives us a 424 PPI density. The chipset inside is a Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800, following a 2.26GHz quad-core Krait 400. In terms of meting out facility, it seems that the G2 is in no rapid supply.
It comes in 16GB and 32GB variants, taking into account 2GB RAM. Connectivity includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, Infrared harbor and 4G LTE.
The camera regarding upholding is a 13MP shooter gone a little LED flash. Like postscript high-decline Android smartphones, it has a few behavior happening its sleeves, too, but we'll profit into that in our camera section.
LG with made a colossal arrangement out of the battery in this pretend to have, which is a 3,000mAh Li-Po (Lithium Polymer) battery. It's shaped in such a mannerism that it takes happening as much space as it can in the phone.
To make more prudence of it, curved backs tend to make more unused make known for flat batteries. If you disclose the battery to insults the curvature of the phone, you effectively understand a slightly augmented battery.