WP Nokia Lumia 520 - Discussion Thread

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Gott the white one. Loving it.

Apps im using>

Twitter
Facebook
Lomogram (amazing alternative to the service that shall not be named.)
Battery
GetThemAll(downloading youtube et al)
TubePro (can also download in the background)
WhatsApp

Any good games etc?

I cant find Asphalt on the store :S And Nokia music is just for 3 months? >.<
 
Many congrats man! Nokia Music for just 3 months really sucks - I have a year's free subscription. I guess the scheme varies from model to model. Did you try downloading the tracks from the store?

As an alternative for YouTube, try Metrotube.

Games - Mirror's Edge, Modern Combat 4, Asphalt 7 Heat, Contre Jour, NFS Hot Pursuit, Breeze, Gravity Guy, Hangman (excellent TP!).
 
Yes for Lumia 620 too the subscription is for 1 year. Also there's a free 3 months subscription for the BigFlix app.
 
Many congrats man! Nokia Music for just 3 months really sucks - I have a year's free subscription. I guess the scheme varies from model to model. Did you try downloading the tracks from the store?

As an alternative for YouTube, try Metrotube.

Games - Mirror's Edge, Modern Combat 4, Asphalt 7 Heat, Contre Jour, NFS Hot Pursuit, Breeze, Gravity Guy, Hangman (excellent TP!).
Thanks man :D Saw asphalt when is searched the exact name :S Didnt even show when I searched for "Asphalt"
Downloading all those games. Will take a lot of time -_-

Yes I downloaded a few albums from the store, the quality is good!

Metro tube is a paid app, downloading the trial version now. Not that it costs much, but im trying to get a workflow going with free apps first. And downloading seems loads better :D
 
Many congrats man! Nokia Music for just 3 months really sucks - I have a year's free subscription. I guess the scheme varies from model to model. Did you try downloading the tracks from the store?

As an alternative for YouTube, try Metrotube.

Games - Mirror's Edge, Modern Combat 4, Asphalt 7 Heat, Contre Jour, NFS Hot Pursuit, Breeze, Gravity Guy, Hangman (excellent TP!).

These games are free or Paid ?
What about the heating issue in Lumias ?
 
@Party Monger - turn off those unwanted stuff that consumes battery. Turn off location services (you can enable them when you use GPS), setting the brightness to low (you really don't need a higher brightness level because the screen is pretty much readable under daylight conditions), block all the apps. under background tasks etc.

And download ConnectivityShortcuts so you can have individual icons for enabling 3G, WiFi, Location services and Bluetooth on your homescreen, instead of browsing all the way to settings and enabling them. No live tile though!

These games are free or Paid ?
What about the heating issue in Lumias ?

Some titles are free, some others are paid (Rs. 50 to Rs. 350). The paid titles can be demo'ed as well before making the final purchase.

I am not aware of any heating issues. When the phone is operating in the 3G mode and owing to browsing, viewing videos etc. the device may get warm/hot over time. But I believe this is the case with most smartphones nowadays.
 
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Although not as restrictive as iOS but not even as much free and customizable as android, WP seems to fall in middle of these two. Or no ?
 
@Party Monger - turn off those unwanted stuff that consumes battery. Turn off location services (you can enable them when you use GPS), setting the brightness to low (you really don't need a higher brightness level because the screen is pretty much readable under daylight conditions), block all the apps. under background tasks etc.

And download ConnectivityShortcuts so you can have individual icons for enabling 3G, WiFi, Location services and Bluetooth on your homescreen, instead of browsing all the way to settings and enabling them. No live tile though!
I used it, but there is a better app :D Try an app called "battery". It gives detailed battery percentage, time left etc in the big live tile. You click the tile and on the single page itself you have icons for wifi, bluetooth etc that you can change easily. I love that app. The developer is adding more stats etc soon!
Here is a screenshot.
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On my phone, I've kept the screen on auto. Apparetly on Auto the screen brightness goes even much lower than the low setting :D
 
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Is there some thing like JailBreak or Root in Windows 8 ? And how well does games run in 520 compared to high end Lumia models
 
No, you can developer unlock it, you can google for the procedure, and install some 10 xap files. There are a few homebrew developers.
But I dont think there's any other than that.
 
As a user, ro jailbreaking or rooting is applicable for this platform. The device can be used as-is. And pretty much can be used OOTB with minimal changes.

I used it, but there is a better app :D Try an app called "battery". It gives detailed battery percentage, time left etc in the big live tile. You click the tile and on the single page itself you have icons for wifi, bluetooth etc that you can change easily. I love that app. The developer is adding more stats etc soon!

On my phone, I've kept the screen on auto. Apparetly on Auto the screen brightness goes even much lower than the low setting :D

I had a battery app. before which displayed a small battery with the % of juice left on the lock screen. But it used to report the stats incorrectly. Uninstalled the app.
 
As a user, ro jailbreaking or rooting is applicable for this platform. The device can be used as-is. And pretty much can be used OOTB with minimal changes.



I had a battery app. before which displayed a small battery with the % of juice left on the lock screen. But it used to report the stats incorrectly. Uninstalled the app.
Check the screenshot. It updates automatically at set intervals so it might be slitgly off by a few percents. Also gives toast notifications for excessive drain of battery , charge complete etc.
 
As per the numerous reviews, it is one of the best sub-10K phone. AFAIK, the cheapest deal was on HS18 Superdeals a few days ago. It may be live again in a few days.
 
Can someone confirm the heating issue i read on WP8 forums that some people report heat issues when using data connection
 
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