as you know.. more and more apps and games that require 1gb ram are coming to windows phone.. And as you noticed apps from nokia itself puts up not so great performance with 512 mb ram (smart cam) . So my theory is that , nokia upgraded lumia 520 for a more feature- filled windows experience
Nokia should have know this and gave all phone 1gb ram then
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