Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Nokia Lumia 530 -- Review

My older phone has been having problems, it's a small Chinese brand, pretty powerful phone but after two years issues started coming up, the touchscreen keyboard isn't working well, some letters literally cannot be typed, neither can Enter button, then you know it's time to say goodbye to this phone. external buttons are getting old as well, have to push really hard to light screen up. Most annoyingly is that it's Chinese operating system called Yun OS, which is based on Android but many world main stream apps are not supported, especially google's apps are impossible to install on it (because I can't use Google Play Store on the phone).

I went to Mediaworld and I went for Nokia/windows directly, it's been in my mind for quite a while, my laptop is windows 8.1, my tablet is also windows OS, now if my phone is also windows, everything will just match up. 

There were two Lumia 530 respectively labelled 59.99 Euro and 69.99 Euro, but they are exactly the same except one is green another one is orange. I asked the staff what's with the price difference, he told me that there's absolutely no difference, just that the one with orange shell is on promotion, so it's 10 Euro cheaper... What? Just because of the color? Don't people like orange color? 




Here is the link to the official site of Lumia 530, the official price is 79.99 Euro?
Some statistics: 4'' display (fairly small but I don't really mind, I'm not a mobile reader or gamer)
4 GB internal memory (this one looks really humble, although I hardly use even half of the 16 GB storage in my previous phone, this one left me only 1 GB free space after system taking up other 3GB, so I put a 32GB SD card in it)
5.0MP Camera (seriously, I have no idea about this parameter, 5 million pixel, I just looked it up, although it still doesn't mean anything to me. Honestly, the camera sucks, don't count on this camera to snap good photos, it's purely practically functional, but it's enough for me, considering I've got some real good video/photo cameras)
Windows 8.1 OS, love it, I'm a windows 8 fan, it's just so futuristic to see all the colorful tiles on screen instead of traditional matrix of apps. 

So far this gadget just feels so right in my hand, I love it. It's nothing attractive to those of you who are really into those new, powerful, multifunctional mobiles, it's low end, practical, fully functional smartphone, it's just perfect for me, I don't even think about asking for more, there's nothing else I really NEED from a smartphone.

  

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