Nokia Lumia 620 vs Lumia 920 – Specs Comparision

Nokia Lumia 620 vs Lumia 920 – Specs Comparision

To counter the growing stature of Apple and Samsung in the smartphones market Nokia joined hands with Microsoft and launched the Lumia series that has an offering for people with varying pocket sizes. The Nokia Lumia 920 indeed is one of the most exciting smartphones available right now. Not only has it an optically stabilized camera for blur-free night time shots and inbuilt wireless charging facility, but it also has the un-put-downable Microsoft Windows Phone 8 operating system.

Nokia Lumia 620, on the other hand is the newest and smallest member of the firm’s Windows Phone 8 line up. It sports a colorful curved chassis and has a very attractive price tag. Here we will compare the specs of these two offerings from the Nokia stable to give you an idea of where exactly each stands. This will help you choose the phone that would be right for you.

Weight And Dimension

At 127 grams the Lumia 620 is much lighter than Lumia 920, which weighs 185 grams. It is also a lot sleeker. While its dimensions are 115.4 x 61.1 x 11 mm, the Lumia 920 has a dimension of 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm. While the Lumia 620 has six color variants, namely black, pink, orange, green, blue and white, the Lumia 920 has five variants – black, yellow, red, white and gray.

Nokia Lumia 920

Display

At 3.8″ inches the Lumia 620 is much smaller than its big bro Lumia 920 which has a display size of 4,5 inches. At 768 x 1280 pixels with a ppi of 332 the Lumia 920 scores over 620, which has a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels with 246 ppi. Both the devices have capacitative multi-touch screen. While Lumia 620 has TFT technology, the 920 has IPS LCD.

Battery

Lumia 920 scores on this point too. While it has a 2000 mAh Li-Ion battery the Lumia 620 has a 1300 mAh Li-Ion battery. Moreover, 920’s battery offers more talk time, even on the stand-by mode.

Hardware

While the Lumia 620 has a QUALCOMM Snapdragon S4 system chip and Dual core, 1000 MHz processor, the Lumia 920 has Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 plus MSM8960 system chip and Dual core, 1500 MHz, Krait processor, giving it a distinct edge. Moreover, 920 has a better system memory. While it has 1024 MB RAM, Lumia 620 has 512 MB RAM. It also has less amount of built-in-storage. While it has 8 GB storage facility the Lumia 920 has a storage capacity of 32 GB. However, with microSD facility 620’s storage capacity may be expanded to 64 GB.

Nokia Lumia 620

Camera

The Lumia 920 scores hands down on this front. With an 8.7 MP camera and Dual LED it scores over Lumia 620, which has a 5 MP single LED camera. The big bro from Lumia stable also boast of a better front-facing camera. While it has a 1.3 MP camera the front-facing camera of 620 is only 0.3 MP. Needless to say that Lumia 920 has better video recording facilities too.

Connectivity

Both has 3.0 Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. While the Lumia 620 has 802.11 a,b,g,n Wi-Fi, the Lumia 920 has 802.11 a,b,g,n, 5GHz Wi-Fi. Both features USB 2.0 with microUSB.

Availability

While the scheduled release of Lumia 620 is January 2013, the big bro has been available since September 2012.

Conclusion

From the specs it is clear that Nokia Lumia 920 has several advantages. Be it the battery power, the storage capacity, the camera, the processor – it scores over the Lumia 620. However, the Lumia 620 is a lot sleeker and lighter than the Lumia 920. And it would be much more pocket-friendly.