The Nokia Lumia 820 is a very competent phone, and there is no doubting its consistency in terms of performance. The unfortunate thing for the Lumia 820 is the fact that the Lumia 920 gathers all the attention, and this remains as a footnote. For these specs, Nokia should essentially have pegged this in line for competition with the HTC Windows Phone 8S. Instead, with a MOP of roughly Rs. 27,500, the Lumia 820 is overpriced.
Features & Performance
Windows Phone OS has always had the advantage of being nimble even on hardware that may be considered low spec for most Android phones. The Lumia 820 has a dual-core processor clocking at 1.5GHz along with 1GB of RAM. The critical bit is – Windows Phone 8 does not feel any heavier or resource hungrier than the Windows Phone 7.5 we saw on Lumia 900, which was powered by a single core processor and had just 512MB of RAM. System performance is quite good, and no issues at all with any slowdowns under the same app load that we use to test phones.
Memory expansion, or the lack of it, was big deal for the previous generation Windows phones. That has been solved this time around, and the Lumia 820 comes with 8GB internal storage and a micro SD card slot for up to 64GB more.