The L2520 is exclusive to John Lewis in the UK (face palm) and I have found John Lewis's tech guys to be overly biased to their preferred products. Case in point I went to the John Lewis store in Westfields, I asked a rep at the intel section if he could direct me to the Lumia 2520. His immediate reaction was "what is that??", again I asked one of the tech guys near the tablet section instead of a direct answer I got a 5 minute demo about how good ios was which I ended abruptly as he was yapping on how about the Ipad 2's camera was superior to the L2520's camera. I told him I am really not interested in taking pictures with a tablet, also the camera module the L2520 is the same as the Lumia 720 which has an aperture of f/1.9, focal length of 26 mm, 4x zoom with zeiss optics before I could finish. He replied with "I will get my friend to show the galaxy tablet", who then proceed to turn the L2520 off which I was playing and shoved the galaxy tab in my face.
So for another 20 minutes I had a unrequested demo about the Galaxy tablet, which I went through as I was curious to see how polaris office 5 (the installed office suite) handled but he skimmed past again and again, only relented and just brought up the tutorial which he skimmed through. I asked him if he knew anything about polaris 5 and he said truthly "no". The only thing I liked was the S pen and that was it as I found the galaxy tab had micro stutter, laggy transitions etc (I guess that's me, some of you may not notice it).
I finally got round to playing with the L2520 the device just feels right in your hands, the screen was bright and vivid. The mix radio app exclusive for the L2520 at first glance looked elegant, well thought out and spaced appropriately. I didn't notice any microstutter or transition lag when navigation especially when flicking through the running apps from the left handside (edge of screen). Though I did have some difficulty getting a handle in closing apps snapped 50 | 50 on the screen, I guess that is down to the fact I am not used to using a win8 on a tablet yet. Lastly windows rt does have handwriting support, which worked pretty well on the L2520 with my fingers even when i deliberately scribbled and jumbled up words it got 3/5 right which was pretty good imo.