The IT Nerd

In part 2 of this review, I’ll cover the cameras in the Nokia Lumia 620. It has the usual two cameras. One forward facing and one at the rear. The rear one is a 5MP auto focus camera with LED flash that also does 720p HD video capture. Those numbers may seem disappointing to those who are used to 8MP cameras that do 1080P video, but you’ll see that it really doesn’t really make that much of a difference.

So let me cover the still photos first, here’s a couple of shots taken at Toronto’s Pacific Mall which is the largest Asian indoor mall in North America with over 500 stores (click on the pictures to see them in full size):

To show how well the camera handles colour, here’s a short outside a Japanese restaurant that is newly opened:

Even though the camera is ONLY 5MP, it does a great job of taking pictures.

As for the video, I could not get my video to upload in 720P. But you can see the image quality and hear the sound quality:

Again, it works quite well. I cannot complain here, other than the fact that I couldn’t display this in full resolution.

One thing that would really push this phone up the food chain is the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube. Now that’s something that I’ve complained about with every Windows 8 Phone that I’ve reviewed so this is not a shortcoming of this particular phone. Either Microsoft or the phone manufacturer in question needs to address this shortcoming as there are many users who won’t tolerate not being able to upload their videos of themselves doing stuff from the TV show Jackass that they want to share with friends and family to YouTube from their phone.

The final part of this review will wrap up a few things including talking about the Telus network.

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