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 Buying new handphone? Need RECOMMENDATION? V15

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aristotletan
post Jun 10 2013, 11:37 PM

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QUOTE(Kosumaledoko @ Jun 10 2013, 08:09 PM)
Sifus, I'm looking for a budget smartphone, RM700 max. I'm looking for one with following strong points:
1. Long battery life
2. Not too big, around the size of iPhone 4.
3. Good performance at normal use. E.g. Not laggy when swiping through homepages.
4. Good for basic use like running chatting apps. Gaming and video watching is low priority.

After a bit of researching, found the following close to my needs.

1. Nokia Lumia 520 - Nice design with free offline GPS for one country.
2. Nokia Lumia 620 - Design is better than Lumia 520, free offline GPS for global use. But poorer battery life compare to Lumia 520.
3. Huawei Ascend G510 - Longest battery life of the bunch. But also biggest and most expensive of the lot.

All info obtain from reviews.

Any other recommendation? Or anything bad about my three choices?
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Don't buy low end android phone. 512MB RAM is still insufficient if you installed a bunch of social networking apps. Secondly, Huawei phone dont have resell value. Just avoid low end android if you don't want lag, trust me cause I am one of the low end user and I hate my phone. When I browsing 50% of the time is force close or not responding. If you insist go for android, save for more money and buy a better phone.

Just grab a wp if all apps you need is available in wp store.
620 battery life can be upgraded to larger battery capacity. Anyway both 520 and 620 is great, if you don't care about front facing camera and flash, just grab 520, save for hundred bucks smile.gif
aristotletan
post Jun 16 2013, 11:38 AM

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QUOTE(ffnbnj @ Jun 15 2013, 09:43 PM)
Budget: 600-700
Specs: Decent camera, don't mind Android or WP8, preferably good performance, good battery life
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lumia 520 = below your budget, but camera below average, no flash, good battery life.
lumia 620 = budget within your range, slightly better camera, got flash, got front camera, but poor battery life. But can extend battery life with larger battery capacity.

Both phone are smooth, thanks to WP.
For Android, you can only get laggy phone in this budget. Seriously, no offence. I am also one of the Android user. Maybe if you go any retail shop, low-budget android phone look smooth, but time will tell the truth. For windows phone, you never see anyone complain about lagness, but WP have some bug, like auto-restart, but not every phone have this bug, depends on luck. Lag or Bug, your choice smile.gif

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 16 2013, 11:45 AM

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