Lumia 620 Sim Free Windows Smartphone - Magenta

What I can I say about my Lumia 620 other than after 5 days of ownership I am still unable to put it down. Getting a Windows phone was a fairly big leap for me as a long term Android user but I am very happy at this point that I did. Review Delivery was fast and efficient as usual from Amazon: In the box was the phone ,a manual, earphones(throw these away they are rubbish), charger and cable Setup: This phone requires a micro sim card to work. I purchased a sim card cutter from Amazon at the same time for about £4 There was something slightly worrying about putting your sim in this machine but all was fine and my sim was transformed in seconds.Inserting the sim and 32Gb SD card was simple and quick. Once switched on the phone booted quite quickly. There was the usual questions about network providers and accounts that you wanted to link to the phone. The whole process was simple and over in less than 5 minutes. Hardware I have not been a big fan of Nokia over the years but the quality of this device has changed my perception of that completely. In the hand this feels like a robust sturdy phone that does not require you to treat it with kids gloves. The removable case slotted easily into position. The phone came with the black one which has a soft matt feel. The screen is simply stunning, vivid bold colors that look great with games and video alike once you have turned off the annoying auto brightness control! I am not a big fan of larger screens and the form factor of this phone is hitting the mark so far. Not too big to fit comfortably in my jeans pocket and not too small so that everything is difficult to read. The battery has proven to easily last a day of what I would describe as moderate to heavy use. Windows Phone 8 This has been the biggest surprise to me. The overall experience is brilliant, there are a few minor niggles but the good far outweighs any negatives. Good,points The speed of this device is great, there has not been a single stutter or wait in the 5 days of usage. Considering its hardware specs are not exactly headline making in terms of cpu this is a fantastic result. Windows just zips along nicely. The screen transitions and the overall flow and just nice and give the you the feeling that they have actually thought about the user experience; It all feels very slick/ The people hub is brilliant, all of my updates in one place, simple and easy to use, I have found myself using this instead of the individual apps. Nokia's apps that come with the device and are available mainly for free in the store are fantastic. The Nokia drive app is a significant selling point on its own. It is so much better than the google Navigation app on my android. The city lens and maps function are also great additions. XBox integration is seamless and intuitive. Smartglass works well and I like the consolidation of gaming into the one hub. Office comes for free and appears functional for reading documents and presentations. One note integration is excellent. Surprisingly Skydrive wasn't pre-installed and I had to download it, this just works really well. Kids corner is a great addition to the OS, I dont have to worry about my 6 year old being able to get into things he shouldn't whilst playing games on the phone. I had something similar on Android but that was a bit clunky. This works a treat and is simple to configure. One feature i love is the ability to decline an incoming call with a text message from a standard list of responses. Bad points: My one major annoyance so far is the lack of independent volume controls for ringtones and media. If I have had music up quite loud then when the phone rings it is also very loud. I have not found a way yet of setting these independently other than remembering to turn it down. Windows phone 8 has an app called datasense that tracks you phone and data usage on your mobile network, This unfortunately has to be enabled by your carrier and vodafone have not yet done so. I miss the "my vodafone" app that I had on android. No native Sonos app! I have found an alternative called Phonos that works well but would have been nice to have the real thing available. My one fear with Windows phone before purchase was the app availability,but this has not really turned out to be a significant issue. everything I want is there apart from the couple mentioned above. Summary All in all I love the Lumia 620 . the wonderful Nokia's hardware and apps, Windows 8 just zips along and is simple and intuitive. Live tiles works as a concept and the platform feels surprisingly mature. So far it has been bullet proof with no crashes or issues at all. This is a great phone at this price point and comes whole heatedly reccomended

After doing some lengthy internet research on budget smartphones, I came up with a final few candidates for my new smartphone (I am updating from a very old Blackberry which puts shame to the name "smartphone"..). Basically, I was looking for a non-Apple smartphone for under £200 which had been given good reviews - and eventually, I decided to get the Nokia Lumia 620. The product arrived in good time and was exactly as described. Upon opening the box, the phone looked beautifully designed and the size was not too cumbersome for my abnormally tiny hands. I charged it up, put in my SIM card and turned it on. I was prompted to go through several stages of setting up, which all went smoothly. Finally it was all up and running and I was pleased with how it looked - the WP8 tile layout was attractive and customisable. I rushed to the App store to download Facebook and Twitter, which I did without any problems. Both applications looked great and were easy to use. I then went back to the App store to download some games, starting by searching my favourite Temple Run which I had played on my brother's phone and become addicted to. Disappointment number one: Temple Run does not exist for the Windows Phone platform. Call me petty, but I was quite disappointed about that. I managed to download a couple of other games, such as Windows' version of Fruit Ninja (Fruit Slash) and some generic bubble game. They also ran smoothly, but I was still disappointed about not being able to download Temple Run or, as I discovered not long afterwards, Snap Chat. Disappointment number two: In the meantime, I noticed that I wasn't receiving any notifications from Facebook or Twitter, despite receiving them on my laptop and on my old Blackberry which I still had activated. Upon consulting Google, I uninstalled and reinstalled both apps and was careful to ensure that I activated the "push notifications". I turned my phone off and on again. And off. And on again. Still no luck. I was losing my patience - this phone was BRAND NEW yet my three-year-old Blackberry was performing better. I was receiving text, email and WhatsApp notifications but nothing from Facebook or Twitter, and later, nothing from Skype either. I consulted Google again to discover that there is an abundance of similar problems with Windows phones. On one of the forums, someone suggested that Microsoft were too busy fixing "big scale" problems to worry about faults with phone applications. This seems highly plausible to me. Yes, there are loads of applications available to download - including BBC iPlayer (which ran great!), Youtube, radio, music, every social networking app you can think of... But the most popular apps amongst 95% of smartphone users - Facebook, Twitter and Skype - did not work properly. Another one of my Google searches led me to a forum where someone had said that they consistently got Facebook/Twitter notifications through a week late. I had paid £180 for this phone. I am a university student - even as a budget phone, that's a lot of money! But it just kept disappointing me. I do not have anything against Nokia - but against the platform they decided to put on their phone. Windows Phone 8 is an utter disappointment. To be honest, I should have also researched Apple vs Android vs WP8, but the thought didn't even cross my mind that a Microsoft product may not perform as well as its competitors. I have already packaged up my Nokia Lumia 620 for return and refund. Instead, I'm going to order a Samsung or a Sony - anything which ISN'T on the Windows platform. If you have any common sense, stick to Android or Apple, instead of Windows' shoddy mobile phone technology which certainly does not live up to my expectations of Microsoft.

This phone will give you a great design and build quality as well as the smooth and simple Windows 8.1 software for a budget pricetag. After researching the phone market extensively I couldn't find a phone that suited my needs better than this one. First of all I wanted a normal size phone, and with a 4 inch screen this phone isn't too big, I can watch films on it no problem and it is much brighter and nicer to look at than my old HTC Desire S. The resolution won't blow you away and you can still see individual pixels if you look closely, but personally I don't think an HD screen on a phone is that useful or necessary. The camera is decent for 5mp, it works as you would expect and isn't great in low light, you can use some funky filters that produce convincingly arty snaps, good enough for fb. The software is so much smoother than the equivalent android software you would get on a phone this price, it is the same as you would get on a top of the range Lumia and runs very well. Windows phone 8.1 is much simpler than android, there is some degree of customisation available but no where near as much as android. The only problems I've had so far have been problems answering calls/ screen not switching off when holding phone to ear/ having to lock and unlock manually to get this working properly, however this problem has since disappeared. I'm not that bothered by apps, and the market has most of the important stuff like Skype, viber, bank apps etc. The maps are good, especially drive, but I prefer some things about google maps, which you can install if you want. It doesn't have a radio, but Nokia music is a great streaming app. It's a great smartphone for doing everything a good smartphone should, music, video, web, pics, maps, just not sooo great with apps. But if you are getting sucked in to apps that much, you need something more constructive to do on the train.

I bought this phone as I wanted a change from my Samsung Galxey Mini, and I wish I never changed my phone. The Nokia Lumia is a very nice phone, I like the Windows look but I hate that I can't have the apps I use to have on my old phone, can't have phone charms, and I can't have any kind of notifications. It's a pain. Also the volume quality isn't great. I wouldn't of brought it for £150. It's worse than my old phone that I bought for £80 new. So if your the kind of person that likes your apps, phone charms and notifications then this phone isn't for you. But if you like a simple phone with just Facebook and xbox games, then this is good a good phone.

The phone came and it was brilliant. It ran very quickly for a phone in its price range, the rear camera was excellent, calling and texting were a breeze. The 2 things that let this phone down however are 1: The Windows Store 2: The Build Quality 1. As said in many other reviews the Windows Store does not compete in terms of the number of apps available. The number of apps is not a big deal for me but what was disappointing was the lack of established apps such as Instagram and SnapChat. Currently two of the most downloaded apps in both the android and apple stores not available on the Windows platform over one year from when it was first released is hard to get your head around. Windows points to third party apps which perform similar functions but in the end they are not the real deal, are often glitchy and a lot of the time decide not to work at all. 2. After having the phone for a brief period the buttons at the side begun to play up before eventually breaking. The lock screen button breaking basically rendered the entire phone useless as it turned itself off and on at random times and locked the screen whenever you tried to send a text, call or browse the web on it. I looked into it an apparently it is a common problem among 620 customers. The ability for one piece of plastic at the side to ruin a phone is most certaintly not something you would expect from Nokia and I believe in this case they have poorly designed the side buttons ( unlike the other Lumia ranges where the side buttons are a much better build quality). Overall it is a great phone for the money you pay for it. My advice, however, would be to purchase a case and protect the side buttons as much as possible and to be prepared to wait for apps your friends/family may have on their Android of Apple phone.

Phone itself great. Small, solid hardware, nice screen, responsive touch. Call quality and loudness sublime- better than iphone. Battery saw me through a day of steady use, two days of light use. However, when outside and cold the touch screen becomes useless. It will suddenly be able to detect your finger even when it is about a centimetre away from the screen, so as you move your thumb to touch another key, it will select all keys in your path. I even had it enter random spaces, add accented characters and generally go haywire. This happened on two seperate phones. Returning it, and I'm going to try the 820. A shame, because the phone is a total steal at the current price and it is great for a light user.

After waiting for the release of this phone model for over a month, I finally upgraded from my HTC Radar which runs Windows Phone 7.5 (upgraded it to 7.8). The Lumia 620 is everything I expected, and more. As a first time user of City Lense, it was much better than what I expected, despite reading lots of reviews about it. The specs of the phone itself are really good considering the price. It packs a dual-core 1Ghz CPU, rock-solid GPU and 512MB of RAM to boot. All this, on top of the fact that WP8 OS uses very little system resources itself, makes this one of the best phones of its price range, in my opinion. Then there is the extras which most people expect yet some phones still lack. The 620 has NFC (near-field communication), LED flash, front-facing camera, clear-black display, Micro-SD card slot, changeable cover, replacable battery, and probably a few others things I don't remember off the top of my head. The battery life also seems pretty decent so far. I haven't had the need to put the phone under heavy use yet but, as with any other phone, turning every single feature on (Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc) will most likely sap your battery as dry as a vampire meal pretty fast. Verdict: Buy it. It feels a lot like a high end phone. If it wasn't for the price, I'd of mistaken it as such.

Having had my previous Nokia (6301) for nearly five years with little to no problems, I was hesitant to give one of these new fangled devices a chance. However, my partner loves technology and encouraged me to change phones and I must admit - this phone has not disappointed. I was never one to use the internet on a phone, but even I find myself checking emails at home (using the WiFi connection, not the mobile data). At my request my partner quickly switched the settings so that the internet can only be used at home and thus I will not be subjected to any scary mobile internet charges. The phone takes relatively good pictures, though the front-facing camera is not of great quality, it suits me just fine. As someone who wanted to use the phone for more basic purposes, being able to customise the live tiles on the menu screen is excellent. Contacts, messaging and phone calls are large buttons and emails and other such apps are tiny or even removed completely. This is something I was not able to do on my previous phone and I like it. It is very easy to make the phone 'your own'. :) I am still learning to type text messages, for not only am I new to a touch screen, but the keys are quite little. Fortunately I have little hands and fingers! All in all, I am very pleased with my purchase, even if I debated buying it for so long!

La gestion des appels manqués pourrait être améliorée. Autrement, parfaitement adapté à mes besoins. Je recommande pour un usage moderne des fonctions essentielles. Interface windows très agréable (mais il ne semble pas possible de redimensionner tous les pavés comme souhaités : contacts, par exemple). Au final, très bon rapport qualité/prix