pratyush997
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^Try it once! you will know BTW All your choice 
ritwiksondhi
Journeyman
The only country where Lumia 620 is being officially sold is Russia. News about Malaysia, Thailand, China etc are just rumors. Nokia has just released the pricing in these countries not the actual product. You might find some review in Russian language on youtube.
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Saw some hands on in youtube, its the perfect set for me, now the only test remaining is battery, last a day with 1-3hrs calling(3G), 1-2 hrs browsing and 10 mins cam use and I'll buy it day one.
NoasArcAngel
Wise Old Owl
1300mah battery will provide a days backup easily. specially since its nokia and running wp8.
Gaurav265
A PC GAMER
Yes. Because of its os.it has not android-the power hungry....
marvelousprashant
Cyborg Agent
@Sujoy No File manager is there in WP8.
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Yeah, just found out, there are no apps either, something microsoft probably locked out, it does support MTP however, one major inconvenience
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Looks like I might not get Lumia 620 after all, the inability to manage files is a major bummer, problem is if I am to buy a Android cell it has to be Sony Xperia SL or equivalent, damn microsoft, file manager is something even 10yr old Symbian devices had
NoasArcAngel
Wise Old Owl
Looks like I might not get Lumia 620 after all, the inability to manage files is a major bummer, problem is if I am to buy a Android cell it has to be Sony Xperia SL or equivalent, damn microsoft, file manager is something even 10yr old Symbian devices had
well you have a media album to manage all media related files, so i think if you did not want to hack the wp8, some level of file management is there.
and like that all different apps have different permissions to access the respective folders / directories.
microsoft has deliberately locked out file management .... to prevent things like :cough: titanium backup and piracy of :cough: apps happening like in android.
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Why not provide an official file manager with strict restrictions so stuff like permission alteration etc couldn't be done, also when you open a file in android you can select the app to open it with, something I will dearly miss if I go for WP. All I wanted was file manager that could cut, copy, paste, delete, rename etc. If lumia 620 didn't have that awesome cam and lenses feature and the massive hw I'd never even consider it. Choices, choices.......
NoasArcAngel
Wise Old Owl
hah, because it can always be reverse engineered. in WP you wont select the app to open the file with, its the other way around... the app will have a dedicated directory only from where you can access those files. you have MTP and you can also load apps via the PC... something which is a big plus point against android, not being on wi-fi all the time to install apps.
i think you can though edit files names etc...
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There's an addon for chrome that allows you to download apks from google store into your PC, not sure if it still works though.
So lets say I have a directory from where I can load movies in a video player, now I have to put the movies there?
Looks like probably I won't be buying Lumia 620, there is a serious issue with WP8 that eats storage area in phone, even when you don't load apps, just loading images or MP3s could eat all your space:
IJSMblog: Windows Phone news and apps: Mystery of the ever-expanding "other" storage on Windows Phone 8
What about the "Other" storage section ? - Page 2 - Windows Phone Central Forums
You can't even clean it via PC, also as Lumia 620 and 820 has only 8GB of space unlike Lumia 920 this issue could kill it.
What scared me most is this quote:
Searching for a solution, if not found, no way in hell am I buying a Lumia. I don't care about apps, but this sh!t's ridiculous, can't even clear cache?
pratyush997
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Shah
Cyborg Agent
WP is still to develop a lot
Get Droid-ified then!
Microsoft has to do something about it ASAP. I wish Microsoft provides an update to fix it, before March.
pratyush997
Inactive
They compete iOS!
Jail broken iOS got file manager AFAIK!
sujoyp
Grand Master
u will gradually get used to it...now that u have memory card support I think u can at least store files in ur chosen directories...but the files should be compatible with handset...donno how it will handle bluetooth transfer...maybe it will restrict to WP-to-WP handsets only...
I transfer everything with zune and they say WP8 is zune free...I think handset will detect all the media and files in respective applications if not file manager
I transfer everything with zune and they say WP8 is zune free...I think handset will detect all the media and files in respective applications if not file manager
NoasArcAngel
Wise Old Owl
well the method your mentioned is the apk-downloader extension for android and that is illegal by google standards. because by the security point of view, someone can download the app make malicious changes to the code and circulate it around.
yes, there will be a specified path where you put the movies..
and if you are thinking of going the android way, let me share my experience which happened yesterday ... i was playing some videos on my phone and there was this video file which i was downloading but the download did not complete. yet the android player detected it but wouldnt play because obviously the download was corrupted and i wanted to delete the video file, but i searched my phone from top to bottom with astro, cm file manager and even the pro version of astro.... but they didnt show the file.. which was sitting in the downloads folder all this time, i i used tibackup to clear cache of the player, the file managers and after 2 hours of stuggling to find the damned video i hooked the phone to my pc and there it was voila.
oh yeah and the main reason that why ios or even wp8 doesnt have a dedicated file manager is so that you dont place data in random directories and then end up searching them...
for hours ......apart from the hacking reason obviously
well obviously the cache is there for a reason, for faster loading of apps.
so you have better than iphone 5 fluidity on a lumia 620... dude. i think with external storage support upto 64GB, i wouldnt bother with 4-5GB of cache files...
but then again thats me....
oh seems you are in luck :
*www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-8-os-gets-extracted-hacker-analysis-begins
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Its not that simple, the cache increases and fills up the phone memory, so like this, no apps can be installed, no files can be downloaded(all downloaded files are stored in phone), can't transfer files via bluetooth, nothing will happen as the phone has run out of memory, for Lumia 920 its ok as internal mem is 32GB, for 620 and 820 users, its hell. Hell you can't even use a browser as there is no place left in internal memory, its a massive bug that literally breaks your phonewell the method your mentioned is the apk-downloader extension for android and that is illegal by google standards. because by the security point of view, someone can download the app make malicious changes to the code and circulate it around.
yes, there will be a specified path where you put the movies..
and if you are thinking of going the android way, let me share my experience which happened yesterday ... i was playing some videos on my phone and there was this video file which i was downloading but the download did not complete. yet the android player detected it but wouldnt play because obviously the download was corrupted and i wanted to delete the video file, but i searched my phone from top to bottom with astro, cm file manager and even the pro version of astro.... but they didnt show the file.. which was sitting in the downloads folder all this time, i i used tibackup to clear cache of the player, the file managers and after 2 hours of stuggling to find the damned video i hooked the phone to my pc and there it was voila.
oh yeah and the main reason that why ios or even wp8 doesnt have a dedicated file manager is so that you dont place data in random directories and then end up searching them...
for hours ......apart from the hacking reason obviously
well obviously the cache is there for a reason, for faster loading of apps.
so you have better than iphone 5 fluidity on a lumia 620... dude. i think with external storage support upto 64GB, i wouldnt bother with 4-5GB of cache files...
but then again thats me....
oh seems you are in luck :
Windows Phone 8 OS gets extracted, hacker analysis begins | Windows Phone Central