Design and Display
The Nokia Lumia 820 offers a little twist to what was being understood by the aspect that is associated with the Lumia of midrange. The curvilinear aspect was the dominant note, and remains. But in this case, the Nokia Lumia 820 approach the concept of the Nokia Lumia 800. Not surprisingly, this device is seen as an evolution of the first Windows Phone Nokia presented. In this regard, the corners are rounded and smooth, getting develop whole, a thickness of only 9.9 mm.
It is very interesting that the Nokia Lumia 820 will be available in several colors. Specifically, you could get this team in red, yellow, white, cyan, purple, gray and black. In addition, the user’s Nokia Lumia 820 could exchange backshells to customize to your liking the look of the device according to their desires, something that surely appreciate the young clients of the firm.
Now talk about the screen. On one hand, it is remarkable that the Nokia Lumia 820 panel install Nokia Lumia 900, a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED. What is not so well preserved is that the resolution of the former and high end of the company, 800 x 480 pixels. Knowing that Windows Phone 8 support HD resolutions and that the technical equipment could render a 720p panel, it is disappointing that the proposal has been the standard WVGA.
Connectivity of Nokia Lumia 820
Like its big brother, the Nokia Lumia 820 is very complete as far as connections are concerned. Despite some minor deficiency drag, and tara means that the presence of your system LTE in our country where we have no commercial support for data networks, fourth generation, roughly the Nokia Lumia 820 shows a great balance in this section.
The gap to which you refer is the inability to connect, by wire, the Nokia Lumia 820 to a TV that receives HD signal. In other words: there is no HDMI output and supports an MHL adapter to use the microUSB installing the terminal in that sense. Nevertheless, it lacks Bluetooth 3.1, headphone output 3.5 mm, FM tuner and NFC.
The NFC or Near Field Communication is an interesting standard by which we may link devices by simple contact between them. The idea is that, for example, if we touch headphones or speakers with this system with the Nokia Lumia 820, and they identify the phone are automatically synchronized, offering some excellent results in wireless sound output. You may also use this system to exchange files such as photos, videos, music or other media.
Complete profile connections Nokia Lumia 820 support mobile data networks HSPA +, which enables this mobile Web browsing up to 21 Mbps in download-and Wi-Fi. The presence sensors of Wi-Fi access not only serve to point wireless, but also to generate, creating a hotspot in itself Lumia 820. It also makes it accessible to network DLNA and enables you to transfer under the standard Wi-Fi Direct.
Multimedia and Camera of Nokia Lumia 820
In the section on media playback, again, the Nokia Lumia 820 top model emulates the family, the Nokia Lumia 920. In this sense, this phone takes muscle showing a loose format compatibility recognizable by the system. Some of them are the ASF, WAV, MP4, AAC, AMR, MP3, M4A, WMA, 3GP or 3G2 if we talk about sound, MP4, WMV, 3GP, M4V or M4A for video, and the vast majority of image.
The camera is where the Nokia Lumia 820 muscle pulls, as long as we understand it as a mid-range phone. Like the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900, this terminal sensor installed eight megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics. Take also a dual LED flash and, unlike its predecessors, will allow us to record quality videos FullHD. In addition, the Nokia Lumia 820 includes a secondary sensor located in the front of the device, which develops a 0.3-megapixel resolution and VGA quality for video calls.
Processor and memory of Nokia Lumia 820
It’s very, very interesting, check that with the announcement of the support of Windows Phone 8 based on processors of dual core, Nokia has registered no objections to this category with its second generation of terminals Lumia. And is that the fact that the vocation of the Nokia Lumia 820 is the entry of a terminal, at least, a priori, it is not yet known, the price of the device has not stopped for us to see, as in the Nokia Lumia 920 the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 in her womb. We are facing a dual core unit that develops a clock frequency of 1.5 GHz. It arrives with a GB of RAM, which will become all one sided support for multitasking system.
The memory that comes standard with this unit is limited to eight GB. Not bad, especially if you consider that we would have the possibility of expansion by installing microSD cards up to 32 GB, which, for example, is not available on the Nokia Lumia 920. In fact, support for memory cards is one of the new features of Windows Phone 8.
Operating system and applications of Nokia Lumia 820
Windows Phone 8 is the latest version of the platform of Microsoft that supports screenshots, support for memory cards and HD displays the great but the Nokia Lumia 820, true multitasking and new customization options in the main desktop with tiles of three different formats. The simplicity and accessibility are the flag of this environment as one that integrates solutions Microsoft offers even seven GB of data in the cloud for users of Nokia Lumia 820 through SkyDrive.
There are several solutions that help Lumia to be distinguished from the other terminals of this ecosystem Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music, Nokia Mix, Nokia Transports, but that’s not all. This Nokia Lumia 820 is included, plus Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application with which you can walk the world’s major cities seeing how the environment is enriched with information about everything around you.
Autonomy of Nokia Lumia 820
It takes 2,000 milliamp battery of Nokia Lumia 920, but of course, this Nokia Lumia 820 boasts good records in use and rest when it comes to analyzing how we hold the power supply terminal. In this case, what load is 1,650 milliamperes, Lumia 820 supports conversation up to eight hours and 330 hours at rest. If you want to listen to all the music you bring in the phone, the Nokia Lumia 820 will go when you take 55 hours, while in the case of video playback would stay on for five hours.
Like the Nokia Lumia 920, this model is also compatible with standard Qi inductive charging. This would enable, installing the appropriate cover, can recharge the Nokia Lumia 820 without using physical wires.
Reviews of Nokia Lumia 820
The key is in the price. In terms of performance, the Nokia Lumia 820 is a very interesting proposal for what would be understood as a midrange. But you should expect to know how much you want to collect from the manufacturer for this equipment. If the price is around 300 euros, the Nokia Lumia 820 would become one of the most interesting phone in its segment. If you put above 400 euros, would be asked a serious comparison with other terminals. In any case, the technical profile of Nokia Lumia 820 is more than satisfactory and just the fact that no integrated HD resolution on your screen is the only obstacle that could underline in this mobile in principle.