Best bang for your buck. Review on Nokia Lumia 520

I used a galaxy note 2 as my main drover, during the time my friend got a lumia 520 as his work phone so I got a chance to play with it. I purchased it As my second phone for a price of 9200.

This is a great experience for the price, I wanted to try out Windows Phone platform and despite being an android user since 2010 I developed a liking for Windows.

Pros

• feel in hand

  
  




• great keyboard and typing experience

  
  




• display quality good for the price

  
  




• Windows Phone platform gets regular updates which keeps things interesting(if you are too lazy to update then please don't buy a smartphone)

  
  




• battery backup is better than my galaxy note 2 period

  
  




• design consistency in apps and interface makes it easy to navigate

  
  




• does not hang

  
  




• camera is actually pretty good in day time

  
  




• all windows phone devices get updates and is simply a few clicks to force update than rooting

  
  

Cons

• display doesn't have tough glass, I shattered it once with a slight drop from the desk to the floor

  
  




• official apps are often half baked but third party alternative are better

  
  




• still needs some basic usability refinement like smart dialling, call record etc, hopefully Windows 10 fixes it

  
  




• no front camera

  
  

I really feel bad seeing people Ranting online about the phone over things like "why so many update" a guy on flipkart said Microsoft released incomplete software, which clearly indicates the phone being a smartphone but user being not do smart.

Please use the search function in the phone if you don't understand a feature instead of declaring the device as crap

A few quirks or characteristics of windows phone 8.1  platform

• the start screen needs to have the tile of the app u use, take some time to set it up and it shall work well

u can pin things like website, chat window in most messengers, favorite contacts etc as direct shortcut on the start screen

• no side load of apps, this actually is a good idea to prevent marwane, everything comes from the windows store only

  
  




• there's an excellent file manager app called "files" made by Microsoft

  
  




• the notification of apps can be customized

  
  




• 6tag is best client for Instagram

  
  

Please use the smartphone with an active Internet connection, it is a shame to  go otherwise.