yes it does, mr blofeld. 5mp rear and vga front facing. now, if only your nemesis, bond use a nokia instead of a sony. he would have stop your despicableness, permanently, a long, long time ago...

you might want to reformat the card using the phone. sometimes, things like this happen when you switch the memory cards around.

of course you can get the phone now and wait for the covers to arrive later. just like the old days, you know? swapping covers like there's no end to it. heck, i'm waiting for any 3rd party to start swamping the market again. choices, choices...

regarding the batteries, so far i have no problem with it. usual usage per day (8am to 12pm) has been 60% of the capacity. i did turned on the batt saver mode all the time, since i have no need for push notification. perhaps those with whatsapp might want to consider checking their account from time to time manually instead of leaving it active all the time. i do that with twitter. i mean, if they really need to contact me, there's always sms, right? and the maps plus navigation apps are excellent. google map is definitely better but i can't use it offline, can i? oh, downloading partial map is simply useless.

for me, i've made the right choice in sticking with nokia and the 620. i did skip, in a sense, the whole touchscreen euphoria before. my previous phone was the n79, a candybar 'smartphone' which came out the same time as the n97 (yes, it was that long ago). also, i did bought myself the galaxy tab, which i use as a secondary phone, thus familiarizing with the touch input. not practical but it wasn't my primary usage, which was a multitasking ebook reader. then again, before the n79 there was the 9500. hehe...

nokia didn't make a highly advanced thingamajic with the 620, but they do make a useful and solid communication device. as a gadget, there's some much left to be desired but as a phone, it's simply excellent. and after seeing tons of people stranded with a dead and quite simply useless smartphone searching for the public phone, i know where my priorities lies.

and 2g rules in packed malls! make sure you switch to 2g in crowded area. save you the hassle of busy network.

This post has been edited by artwork1504: Feb 10 2013, 09:16 PM

aye, it's useable offline. all you have to do is to download the country you want to use. example, i've downloaded malaysia, thailand and singapore and they're are saved inside the phone memory, not cloud storage. the tracking is fast enough during offline session as it support both gps and glonass. and navigating is a breeze with it. however, it won't replace any up to date tom tom or garmin. yet.

the picture quality of the camera is good enough. a well taken photo is sharp with full details, the colour reproduction is mostly natural, with a warm tone overall. however, lowlight is still a bane, with harsh noise in the dark areas. what i do is to set it at iso 400 an underexpose it to 1/3 stop. at least it help to mantain pic quality.

at the moment, there's whatsapp however there seems to be some issues with some users. since wp8 is still quite new, it still need some ironing out. instagram is a no go so far and no news yet about it's availability in the future. there's a few clone around but since i'm not to fond of instagram, maybe you want to check around.

true. as a phone, it's the best in the price category. however, i do think each os have their strengths. for me, it's either this or the galaxy ace 2, which is a couple of bucks more. i do think for a midrange phone that can support jellybean, ace 2 is awesome but the design is not awe inspiring. upon testing, both feels very similar and being a tab user, i'm more familiar with the ace 2 but the 620 is more intuitive somehow. both have their strength, both have weaknesses.

in the end, i do think it's what you use it for that matter. a gamer will feel truly disappointed with the selection available, even with the xbox choices. a techie will feel the phone simple inadequate for it's underwhelming setting option. ymmv, as they say.

ah, i don't think there's any apps that do that detailed yet. so far i've tested a few battery monitoring apps and as suggested, battery+ seems to be the most informative. accuracy seems to be spot on too. my guess is they set the level at 1300mAh of the standard battery, so it'll monitor based on the assumption. no idea what will happen yet if you throw a sun global inside. want to test it? ,)

also, have no chance to test the audio output yet. have you had a listen to the player yet?

This post has been edited by artwork1504: Feb 11 2013, 10:24 PM

naaaah, the symbian will still live on... as my trusted alarm clock. XP i have yet to find a replacement for the annoying sound that the n79 emit. hahaha.


aye, seems there's quite a few different capacity for that model. heard there's a 1800mAh somewhere? i thought i saw that in lelong.

yep. in lelong. sun global 1850mAh. probably can store up to 1600-1700mAh, if based on a typical battery performance. what do you think?

try switching to the us region. once restarted, you'll find the xbox music store in music+video. and of course, you'll be needing to set your payment account too.

well, spotify is in it's beta stage but from the review, it already fully formed with a few bugs to iron out. perhaps you want to try it? or you want to try flat beats. it's free but i think you can only stream mixes and playlists, not indidual songs... both of these are available from the us market.

hmmm... not seeing the storage check features. anyone else facing this after updating?

nope. not seeing that. it ended with access point. hmmm...

@weim76 thanks for the tip.

@ahK you might want to read this.
http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-92...-other-app.html