Sep 30, 2016 03:53 PM
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Nokia has fitted its Lumia 520 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor running at 1GHz. This dual-core chip is paired with 512MB of RAM, which might sound stingy when compared to the competition, but it's all you need for browsing the relatively lightweight Windows Phone 8 OS.
Windows Phone is much lighter on hardware than either Android or iOS. Indeed, there's no sign of the Lumia 520's lack of pace when navigating Windows Phone's various menus and built-in features; it's only when you try to launch the camera or a third-party app that you'll endure a few-second wait.
You certainly won't think this is a slow of laggy handset.
The Nokia Lumia 520 has a 1430 mAh battery. Nokia rates the Lumia 520 for up to 360 hours of standby time over 3G, 14.8 hours of talk time over 3G, 9.6 hours of talk time over 2G or 61 hours of music playback, which sounds fair. In our view it offers middling battery performance. Critically, the Lumia 520 generally seemed fine getting through a day of relatively heavy - though we still had to charge it overnight.
Connectivity includes dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, HSDPA at 21.1 Mbps and HSUPA at 5.76 Mbps. It has also got Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS. There's no NFC or compass. Don't get lost in the desert.
The Lumia 520 charges and connects to your PC via a standard micro USB to USB cable. And - glory be - there's a micro SD card slot.
