Its 1,430mAh battery lasted 8 hours and 25 minutes in our continuous video playback test with the screen set to half brightness, which is two hours more than the Lumia 520. The Lumia 530 also greatly improves on its predecessor's battery life. When taking portraits or group shots, you can also pick and choose from a variety of faces, just in case someone blinked, while Motion Focus blurs the background to emphasise the object's movement. For example, Best Shot selects the best picture from the entire sequence, while Action Shot combines several shots together to show how an object moved through the scene.
#Nokia lumia 530 series#
This takes a series of photos every time you tap the shutter button and you can use this sequence to create a variety of different images from within the app. It comes with the Nokia's Smart Sequence feature as well.
^ Large patches of cloud are a little noisy, but it's not very noticeable even at its native resolution We've seen plenty of 5-megapixel cameras perform much worse in this kind of weather, and we'd say it's easily as good as the Lumia 630's 5-megapixel camera. In our outdoor shots, colours were rich and detailed even in cloudy, overcast weather, and there was only a very small amount of focus deterioration toward the edge of each frame. The Lumia 530's 5-megapixel rear camera is a cut above most other budget cameras. It's much improved, but ommissions still include Sky Go, Amazon Prime Instant Video or Google cloud services, though these are more understandable. There are also Synology's DS apps for anyone with a Synology NAS and Dropbox. Travel apps now include Waze and TripAdvisor and social networking apps cover Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Tumblr, Vine and Instagram. There are apps from many banks, but HSBC and Santander asre still missing. BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD, Demand 5, Netflix and Spotify are all present for your entertainment needs.
#Nokia lumia 530 windows#
In terms of apps, Microsoft is constantly improving the Windows Phone Store with new apps being added every week. You can also set a background image of your choice which then permeates through the home screen's Live Tiles, making Microsoft's operating system feel much more personalised than before. You can now swipe down from the top of the screen to open up the Action Centre notification bar, and you can add a third row of Live Tiles to the home screen to fit in more apps. Windows Phone 8.1 was equally responsive and makes the Lumia 530 much easier to use than its predecessor. We were able to scroll through news pages without any signs of judder and the page-loading managed to keep up while we were panning around zoomed in as well. Web browsing was beautifully smooth and the Lumia 530 handled The Guardian's desktop home page with no problem whatsoever. This is outstanding for a phone of this price and it shows you don't need to spend a lot of money to get great performance.
#Nokia lumia 530 android#
It's also around 200ms faster than Motorola's £90 budget Android phone, the Moto E. With a score of 1,453ms in our SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks, its quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor puts up a good fight against more powerful budget phones, putting it on par with both the Lumia 630 and the new Motorola Moto G. This is a shame, as the Lumia 530's performance levels are excellent. While blacks weren't nearly as dark as the phone's black bezels, they were still reasonably deep. Black levels were also good, measuring 0.33cd/m2. In ideal conditions there was a good level of detail visible in our high contrast test images, thanks to its decent contrast ratio of 804:1. The phone was much clearer indoors, but viewing angles aren't great, as we noticed when trying to glance at its across our desk. On a sunny day, we could still just about see the Lumia 530's screen in the right light, but it was still a bit of strain on our eyes and its reflective finish made it almost illegible in direct sunlight. This meant that colours didn't look particularly rich or vibrant, and even altering the phone's colour profile in the settings menu did little to improve its score.īrightness was also quite low at 271.07cd/m2, which means it may struggle outside. Our colour calibrator showed it was displaying just 67.1 per cent of the sRGB colour gamut, which is below average even by budget phone standards. The phone's 4in 854x480 display not only has a noticeably grainy-looking finish, but its colour accuracy was also quite low. However, you only need to switch on the Lumia 530 to see where Nokia has cut corners to keep the price down.
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