Don't get me wrong, the phone is a great value, but I wish it had 1GB of RAM.
Trying to load larger, more complex desktop sites on the browser I find to be frustrating at times, especially after a few pages.
Again, the Lumia 521 is WAY better than similarly spec'd Android phones on such websites, and I wouldn't discourage someone
from buying it if they only need to do moderate browsing in a typical day.
Clearly there's thrashing to disk in a way that higher end phones with 1GB or 2GB of RAM don't have.
Every other application use I find just as fast as my Android Nexus 4, sometimes even faster.
Trying to load larger, more complex desktop sites on the browser I find to be frustrating at times, especially after a few pages.
Again, the Lumia 521 is WAY better than similarly spec'd Android phones on such websites, and I wouldn't discourage someone
from buying it if they only need to do moderate browsing in a typical day.
Clearly there's thrashing to disk in a way that higher end phones with 1GB or 2GB of RAM don't have.
Every other application use I find just as fast as my Android Nexus 4, sometimes even faster.
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