GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - all versions
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100 - RM-914
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - RM-915
HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 - RM-917
SIM Micro-SIM



Announced 2013, February
Status Available. Released 2013, April
BODY Dimensions 119.9 x 64 x 9.9 mm, 75.7 cc (4.72 x 2.52 x 0.39 in)
Weight 124 g (4.37 oz)
DISPLAY Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Scratch-resistant glass
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal 8 GB, 512 MB RAM
DATA GPRS Class B
EDGE Up to 236.8 kbps
Speed HSDPA, 21.1 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual band
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592х1936 pixels, autofocus
Features 1/4'' sensor size, geo-tagging
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary No
FEATURES OS Microsoft Windows Phone 8
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8227
CPU Dual-core 1 GHz
GPU Adreno 305
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML5
Radio No
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
Java No
Colors Yellow, red, cyan, white/black
- SNS integration
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- 7GB free SkyDrive storage
- Document viewer
- Video/photo editor
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
BATTERY Li-Ion 1430 mAh battery (BL-5J)

This post has been edited by justaregularjoe: Apr 17 2013, 02:25 PM

what is the current price for this phone now?

RRP in Malaysia RM599...

Here's our brief hands-on with the device:

http://www.lowyat.net/2013/04/12/6955/hand...indows-phone-8/

Must say, I like the price and design although a lil bit too bare for users - no front-facing and no flash for its camera.

shud b out by the end of this month..

Is the battery life better than 620? My mom is thinking of getting one

Any idea when Penang will get this phone?

gsmarena review
*very details with sample shot ..kindly update it at 1st post
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_520-review-920.php

Video sample


Some Photo



Close shot


Paranoma

wow.... wonder why i cant get such nice pics when i take the pic hand-on 520?

lighting ..and sample photo is daylight photo + i dont think they captured with full auto ...for sure they got do some minor tuning like white balance n iso

any idea if this is available already? might head to pavilion to get one..

avail dy.

any idea fr penang?

Today a big advertisement on SinChew newspapper of Lumia 520.
Not bad for RRP RM599, Lumia 520 will be my 1st Window phone.
And user buy it and where can i get the cheaper price?
Thanks

nah... share the 520 pic that i took with my 820

LUMIA 520


this is a white model

yup... cheapest windows phone to date, if not the cheapest smart phone in the market.

Got this phone yesterday and I realized something is missing... It has no Mail tile. Not the messaging tile, but the email Mail tile. The one with the Gmail symbol.

Does anybody have the same problem? or you guys have the tile?

Nokia Lumia 520 user guide states the phone has a Mail tile so I have no idea what is going on. Can't find the tile for download from marketplace also

you need to add the account 1st.
go to setting -> email+accounts -> add an account -> choose the type of account

after successfully adding the account, you will see an extra tile / icon on your live tile screen.
each account will have an extra tile which directly access the mail account.

i have 2 accounts added. works like charm

this phone vs the galaxy Y which one better??

yes it's working already! thanks!

everything's good with lumia, only problem is there will be a learning curve lol

oh yes, sometimes synchronizing doesn't function well. Syncing new emails, new contacts from FB into People can take a while :/

Bought Lumia 520 at RM520, not bad at all with the price
Only white available at the stall, since it can change the battery cover, doesn't matter for me what colour is the cover.
1920X1080 MP4 video can play at Lumia 520, quite impressive.
Ringtone is loud and clear.

if you r buying Js as a 2nd phone, at this pricing. Your 2nd phone will rock your world.
full fledge smart phone. Windows 8 works smoothly on dual core.

minor multi tasking. Microsoft office built in for doc viewing. Access to SkyDrive is a ease.
file(mp3, mp4 or pic etc) transfer frm computer to phone is as easy as copy paste.

changable back cover to suit your mood and customization.

got some feedbacks of a common defect found LUMIA 520

camera button got stuck when using the dedicated camera button on the side.

anyone experience the same problem?

This post has been edited by ahnien: May 2 2013, 09:18 AM

LYN garage sales selling RM520

520 definitely.

The Galaxy Y is worse than 3 year old Galaxy S.

guys what MicroSD card brand you using?

jus dont use ayam brand oso ok dy la.
any brand would be fine.
brand is more of a price preference

any class above class4 - class6 should be speedy enuf for video recordings / loading files from your card.

Premium leather protection for your 520

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url...Ck%3Alucrin+520

the pouch is more expensive than the phone?!?!?!?!

the phone rm5xx, the pouch rm6xx

compensate for the low-end hardware

Will consider this phone

I just got mine today.quite good liao.

Is this a common problem for LUMIA 520?
Anyone in this thread get same prob?

I get this problem when test the phone at shop (b4 i want to buy)
ended up not buying it..Bcoz already try 2 set, both got same prob..

If its a common, then i just want to get it..Malas nak pikir banyak2..haha

Vol button also quite hard to press.guess what ive been playing my 520 just a day and its random reboot more than once

the problem is merely related to the built quality of the phone. the casing & the camera/volume button is not as nice as 620.

620 oso low end phone. but the back cover quality is way better.

so... its not because of the phone itself. jus the cover and the button is not nice.

if you ask me, 620 is really quite good at that pricing. atleast the 150bucks extra compared to lumia520 is worth the quality

This post has been edited by ahnien: May 12 2013, 02:50 PM

Not bad battery life.my normal usage with wifi always on


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New owner report IN !!

Bought this phone last week,

Pros - so far the best RM500+ range phones, OS is smooth, gps is good and camera is best at this price range believe.

Cons - battery used up quite fast, the auto brightness seem abit too dim. The camera button is hard to press.
and being new to these lumia windows experience, i can safely say that access to software is kind troublesome, especially wifi and stuff where you have to go in settings to set whereas a android is one swipe away from it.

overall the phone is one of the best low end phone out there provided that the user utilize the gps and camera which is their strength in lumia phone!

Me an ex-Lumia 800 user. I noticed WP never really done a good implementation with the brightness sensor. Can you try to disable the auto brightness and switch to medium? See if you get improved battery life.

But mine still can last a day wor n yes im always
Connected to wifi

I'm getting my lumia 520 yellow color tomorrow!!
joining lumia family!!

This post has been edited by lck: May 15 2013, 08:41 AM

medium is fine but for battery life it is hard to tell cuz medium is almost same as auto.

yeah but funny thing is first 50% drain fast for my lumia 520

forgot to mention another con is that the back of the cover gets dirty really fast. maybe it is a lumia thing and not just 520

This post has been edited by justaregularjoe: May 15 2013, 11:54 AM

the matte back shell gets dirty easily, i suggest you use anti-rust spray like WD40 or alcohol to clean it.

I bought the Lumia 520 for my son. Here's my view and it is not meant to influence anyone.

For the price, I would say the phone is excellent. Just nice for an entry level phone and for secondary schoolies like my son.

The feel is there, the touch screen is receptive and behaves as expected.

The Achilles heel lies in its wifi capability. It can connect to the router but the phone cannot open any internet addresses. I realised first when I noticed that my son's prepaid credit depleted. So, I connected to the wifi router but I am still not able to open any web page.

I rang the Nokia shop in 1 Utama and the sales guy kept telling that the wifi router is the culprit and that I am to get te Unifi guys to come and sort it out for me. I then called in the unifi contractor and he tested other devices I had including this notebook I'm using, galaxy note and one ipad. All were able to connect to the wifi spot and access the internet.

So I rang again the Nokia shop in 1 Utama and they told me to go to the Nokia service centre to sort it out. I was really pissed off coz since I bought the phone on 11 May 2013, I'm still not able to use the wifi connection.

Now, I regret for not buying a Samsung for my son. Seriously.
NO-Nokia for me and the rest of my family...forever!

this is not big problem..u should google first. Change your router channel to 11.

Yes..change wifi channel to 11...higher than that my ps3 and xperia phone cannot connect to the wifi...

for wifi, data connection, airplane mode etc..

download "connectivityshortcut" its an app

any screen protector for this phone yet?

please stop bashing nokia ..any forumer here can share if your 520 got same problem with this guy??


IN B4 not all nokia product are defective as yours, and not all samsung product as perfect as yours

This post has been edited by noorimanyosh: May 20 2013, 01:12 AM

me using lumia 520 for a 3 weeks now. no problem except where to find casing or screen protector? at lelong.com.my only sell it -,-

its a branding stereotype.
you said samsung because its prolly the obvious choice in terms of popularity.
but you havent even survey about the problems tat samsung user is experiencing

i also having same problem

btw i like the super sensitive touch screen on lumia phone actually.u can scroll up n down without touching the screen

but pressing it with my left thumb seem abit little less responsive..

one thing about 520.. is

the cover quality is really really lacking till the point it affects the buttons on the side.
so far this the most common problem i get back from my buyers.

if can fork out a bit of extra money, i reckon my buyers to go for 620. since should be noticing a minor price drop on 620 in the market.

Hey folks, bought a lumia 520 for my dad and this is my/his experience about it.

Good:
1. Great build quailty.
2. Windows Phone 8 is a notable improvement over Windows Phone 7.8
- apps now open much faster
- better internet explorer experience ( pages now load faster; and disqus comments loading quicker)
3. Battery life is moderate; with his feature phone style usage lasting him 2 days.

Bad:
1. Due to the design of the phone, the unlock button, volume buttons might be hard to press. The shrap corners of the phone partially masks the button, and people with big hands wont be able to press it easily. (e.g my dad)
2. Gets hot very easily. (sweaty palms are not fun.)
3. App related, but whatsapp notification are often delayed, sometimes by 15 minutes or more.

I gotten it at RM 599 PLUS RM200 charge, BECAUSE the lady at One Utama Nokia Shop used my dad's NON EXISTANT data plan (READ: RM0.10/10kb) to create a new microsoft account AND download whatsapp . The manager incharge at that store was NOT friendly. He insinuated my parents were lying, that maxis does not charge data at such an expensive rate (look at the link provided) and when I demanded compensation, only returned RM50 for the whatsapp installation, AND asked his staff to delete whatsapp after that. Pretty pathetic manager and experience. Oh, and the lady there also said the lumia 620 had super sensitive touch screen (it does not). So yeah, she is a lying asswad too.

All this happened in a span of 30 minutes. And thank goodness maxis kept sending smses informing of the amount of data used. If not, i would have walked away none the wiser.

TLDR; Dont buy anything from One Utama Nokia.

why charge rm50 for whatsapp???

its free wut

Wrong way lah bro. The store gave him back RM50 but he still lost RM150 of credit cuz of those dumbasses.


You should go to the consumer tribunal or something man, RM200 is nothing to sneeze and these people clearly tried to con you out of your money. Even if it was unintentional at first, they clearly ramped it up to avoid paying compensation. Don't let them get away with it.

ive been using lumia 520 for a month i think maybe almost...first problem i encounter is the physical camera button is not working, but i already found out how to overcome the problem,just need to allign the button from the phone with the physical button on the case..now mine is working perfect(altho kinda hard to use it). Not a heavy user just light browsing and gaming,battery life is mediocre..but got 1 time the phone get warm(almost hot) even tho there no app running at he back. The OS is smooth and screen is good. Im working at construction site and always had my phone with me.Surprisingly there is not single scratch on the screen right now. The speaker sound is kinda thin but still loud at some point. The nokia map and nokia Drive here is a good sofware. The Qualcomm snapdragon S4 chip is really good..even tho running at 1ghz still can beat my samsung galaxy s2 on locating my location.its fast and almost 98% accurate..really helps me when i need to meet clients. I prefer this nokia over my S2 because it feels "stronger" and rarely hang. No compass but still i think this is the best bang for buck phone ( erm maybe lumia 620 better) because the difference in price is like rm 40 only. Im happy using it.

i do play games on my L520.yes it become a bit warm.but its ok as long as it didnt blow up

better get a sp soon. 520 not gorilla glass

How to force your Nokia Lumia to use 3g/WCDMA only

Dail ##3282
Press ... then Settings
Network type -> 3G only
UTMS band -> automatic
Press Window home button to quick.

Now you can enjoy 3G/WCDMA network only on your Lumia 520.

Even after aligning the buttons to the case it still have issues?

eventually the issue will arise again. as its the cover / button quality problem
the quality built of the cover and the button is a not as good as 620.

520 might be cheap and value in terms of the hardward & software / OS that you will be getting.
the casing is neglected though...

should go for 720 instead

may i know to those having lumia 520, the (back,windows logo and the search buttons on the front of the device does it have the white lights on when in dark area or it does not have any lights at all

I have tried reset the phone, change the brightness to auto and restart many times still no lights on those buttons.

If there is any solutions for it, please do let me know. First time user for windows phone.

Thanks in advanced.

Looking to get one as secondary phone. 2nd hand one most probably , but even new ones can get at 450 at mudah. Sure does look like a good bang for buck.

hi lck,

unfortunately there wont be a way to light up the hardware buttons because there is no lights there. (To keep the price low)

thanks alot for the info and confirmation.

I want to ask about the paid apps in the Store. Can we pay it by our telco credit?

I'm planning to get Lumia 520. After some extensive research online, I found there seems to be quite a few users complaining about phone getting very hot. According to them, the heat buildup within 5 minutes when using 3G web surfing or using the camera.

Any Lumia 520 user here experience the same situation?

no.but u can pay using debit card

it is..but for me its ok lar

if the price diff for 520 and 720 is too big.

interested buyers can try out 620.

620 price going down a bit.

ya..almost double the price

Owh I see. Hopefully the telcos will somehow open their own apps market and allow us to purchase the apps by our telco's credit. That would be easier for many people. Just 1 sms and you can download those fun apps.

u can download gameloft games using sms service.but only available on android

That is why I think it is a good idea if windows apps can also be purchased like that. I think it would make a very good business to the telco operators. Maybe if there is any celcom, maxis or digi staff here that read this may suggest this to their boss.

It will also increase the awareness and popularity of windows phone and this will lead to more windows phone users and then lead to more windows apps be developed by developers out there.

just use ur debit card la..easier

Yeah, I know. I just think if there is any other alternative aside from credit/debit card, it would be better. More flexible and it could benefit those who doesn't own any debit/credit card.

Btw, any interesting games that u may recommend for Lumia 520?

nothing others than asphalt 7 and assasin creed

TQ2.

Where can I find casing for this phone?

Could someone share his/her experience using the phone outdoor, especially using HERE Map and HERE Drive? According some reviews, the screen is reflective and not readable when using it under sunlight.

These 2 apps are my main considerations of considering this phone, besides a relative cheap smartphone.

yes it is..

Dear all, I just published a local app to track public holidays & school holidays.

Hope everyone who has windows phone find it useful .. here's the link -->

Appreciate any feedbacks you may have ..

hi guys, i just purchased this phone few days back and i notice that the wifi goes to sleep when the screen is off, is there anyway to force it to stay on?

setting>wifi>advanced

I was wandering is it true that the screen protector shouldn't cover the top part of the phone?
The shop told me there's sensor up there and they need to cut the top part .
The part where the Nokia wording is.

thanks fridel.

anyone got any case to recommend? looking for one now.

i din put any screen protector yet its not easy to find one

hi, i was been using this phone for almost a month, so far i felt it was a pretty good phone as a basic phone, can't expected a lot for this entry phone. some more, it's my 2nd phone as company phone c/w data plan, so far sufficient for whatapps, email and surfing net. and most important, it easily hide behind my note 2 and can be attached as 1 phone~
Camera wise pretty decent, enough for me to take photos for my report. os wise pretty smooth, but apps, such as whatapps sometimes respond quite slow. this was my first win8 phone and i'm satisfy with it.

hi, never try Windows Phone before so thinking of getting this phone to try the OS(it's the most affordable hehe)
i have two questions
1. does the HERE maps reli work offline? and how is the performance?
2. do we have free Nokia Music service in Malaysia for 3 months?

thanks so much!

1. yes, here maps work offline and superb performance...
2. nokia music not support for malaysia at this moment...

thanks bro, will get it this few days, u know any forumer or shop that give good deal for this phone?