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hey everyone I'm just against all court trends CNET this is the Nokia Lumia 620 now the first thing you should know is that this is an unlocked phone it's not going to be sold with a US carrier in fact it's mostly going to be sold in Asia the Middle East Africa and Europe why am i showing you this phone then because it's interesting to see Nokia really trying to sell something that's stylish but also affordable in an entry-level Windows Phone specifically to emerging markets there are compromises to be sure but Nokia is trying to make sure that the stylish looks aren't one of them so this phone comes in a lot of different colors there's Siam shade there's lime white magenta and black if you're a little bit more button-down interestingly the finish kind of has this gauzy quality not like what you were used to seeing on the other Lumia devices the reason is because they're sort of like an interior layer of color and then this external layer so it almost looks like there's an extra cover on top of it but it's actually all just one back panel the edges are rounded the back is slick not super grippy but I'm not fumbling it or anything partially because it's kind of a small phone I'm not a big fan of the buttons they seem a little bit stiff and hard to push even though I really do like the shape popping the cover off of the back is a little bit tricky you have to actually push down on the camera module while pulling up on the side you see you remove a very large portion of the back cover here and there are all of these slots but none of the ones that you see are actually where the Micro SIM goes the Micro SIM is under the battery and this little tray that you have to pull out from the side it took me a little while to find it screen is 3.8 inches it does have Nokia signature ClearBlack display filter on top cuts out on the sun's glare sure enough I loaded up a website went outside and the full winter sunlight to the little pirouette and I could read everything perfectly from all angles it does run Windows Phone 8 and so you've got several different screens or start screen where you can pin unpin and resize the live tiles and you've also got the full list of apps right there there's a front-facing camera on the front of the phone the rear-facing five megapixel camera on the back with flash in terms of other features you do have NFC and Bluetooth on here there's no wireless charging in terms of the other specs you're not going to find anything too stellar and that's deliberate because they are trying to come out with an inexpensive phone eight gigabytes of on-board storage but you also have seven free gigabytes of storage through Microsoft SkyDrive that's cloud storage and if you've got a microSD card you can actually hold up to 64 extra gigabytes on this phone you've got a dual-core one gigahertz Snapdragon s4 processor running the show 1300 mAh of battery the battery front it's a little interesting because you can actually only set your timeout for 30 seconds or a minute and that's all for battery savings so don't expect it to last all day long and soldier on through the evening since this is a quad-band GSM phone you will be able to use it in the US on AT&T or t-mobile if you did want to buy it unlocked it will cost you about 250 US dollars I'm Jessica's all-court this is the Nokia Lumia 620 you can read my full review at cnn.com