The Lumia 520 comes in a slate shape with 4-inch SuperSensitive touchscreen. The viewing angles are slightly reduced compared to other phones in the Lumia line.The Lumia 520 shares the same screen resolution of 800x480 as the more expensive Lumia 620, 720 and 820, and actually has a higher pixel density than the 720The touchscreen is designed to be sensitive enough that one can use it while wearing gloves or with fingernails.
Aside from the screen the front of the phone contains the Windows Phone 8 standard Back, Start and Search buttons along with a speaker. The back houses a sole 5 MPcamera sensor with autofocus and two-stage capture, but no LED.