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THE FINAL SMARTPHONE before Microsoft dropped the Nokia branding, the Lumia 830 was touted as the ‘affordable flagship’ smartphone by the company when it was revealed at IFA back in September, comparing the price to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S.
Microsoft cut a number of corners to get the price down and increase its competitiveness in a tough market, but how does that translate to overall performance?
Look and feel
Compared to the weighty and bulkier 930, The Lumia 830 is rather light While it uses a plastic back cover like all Lumia devices, the square design and metal frame feels nice to hold while the screen rises ever so slightly above the edges. The same goes for the back, making it rather nice to hold, fitting comfortably whatever way you hold it.
It also goes for physical buttons with the three standard Windows Phone buttons underneath the screen, the volume, power and shutter button at the side and the speaker at the lower back. The two most noticeable changes is the PureView camera module, mainly the black, circular panel housing its 10MP camera and flash (it’s also found on the Lumia 1020 which has a 41MP camera).
The other difference is the USB and charger port is located at the top of the phone beside the headphones jack and not the bottom. This is more odd to see than impractical as you see a cable popping out of your phone, but this lends itself better to the Lumia’s Glance Screen, which displays time, date, and select notifications when you’ve switched off the display. This makes it handy to have as a bedside clock should you need it.
Hardware and Software
To keep the price down, Microsoft downgraded a few areas which for the most part, hasn’t affected it too much.
The 5-inch LED screen is a nice size and its resolution (1280 x 720) is decent, if not remarkable. Watching Netflix on it is fine as long as you don’t expect sharp quality visuals from higher-range devices.
Considering the specs it’s running on – a quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 and 1GB of RAM for those interested – performance is pretty decent, quite similar to the 735 in that working Windows Phone 8.1 and its native tasks is smooth and trouble-free.
Although the same caveats surrounding Windows Phone still applies here, if you rely heavily on Google products, for example, you will need to resort to third-party offerings, or switch to Microsoft’s suite of tools.
While you’re able to run most games, you will start to notice the frame rate becoming a bit jittery when dealing with the more demanding examples out there, and even some cases where supposedly simple games see the frame rate drop noticeably.
That doesn’t mean that games like Asphalt 8 aren’t playable – you still have a lot of fun with them – but if you’re expecting sharp 3D graphics and smooth performance, you may come away from this feeling disappointed.
Battery life is also solid, with a regular day allowing roughly a day and a half of use. More intensive use would see it last close to a day, but for the average person, it should be more than enough.
Camera
Before we go into this, it has to be mentioned that the model we reviewed didn’t come with the Lumia Denim upgrade. Because of that, we weren’t able to test out any of the new camera features and speed improvements that are going to come with it, but even without that, it’s still a solid camera.
Booting up the camera only takes a second to complete, allowing you to snap focused photos within the space of two to three seconds. It helps that the camera is able to handle almost any situation, although in some cases, it takes a bit of time for it to settle upon the right brightness and temperature, but for the most part, you can edit any teething issues like that later through Lumia Camera.
The front-facing 0.9MP camera is pretty average, and you’re not going to use it for anything more than quick selfies and video calls, but overall, the PureView camera does more than enough provided you’re using it for things like Instagram and Facebook.
Summary
Despite the drop in power and speed, the Lumia 830 is definitely one of the best phones from this range, although whether you like it or not greatly depends on what you want from a phone. If you place importance on camera hardware and software – with the latter getting extra improvements further down the line – and you’re aware of the pros and cons of Windows Phone, then you’re going to love it.
If you’re looking for a gaming machine, or it to complete intensive tasks, that’s where things start to get a little iffy, but for the most part, what it aims to do, it does very well.
Microsoft may have made a number of cuts in the hardware, but in this case, most of them were correct. As long as you keep your expectations in check, then you’ll certainly find much joy from this.
Pros
- Comfortable high-quality feel.
- Good hardware and software specs.
- Solid camera.
Cons
- Hardware more mid-range than high-end.
- Can have difficulty keeping up with demanding games.
- Average front-facing camera
The Nokia Lumia 830 costs €409 SIM-free and is currently available with Vodafone (free on bill-pay/€379 PAYG)
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Ahh yes..that’s the Donald we’ve come to know. So..2,000,000 in the first hour?..how? Flying them out?
He said begin moving them out on day one. 2 million illegal immigrants with criminal records should be deported. They would never have initially passed a background check at immigration when trying to get in. Considering the large amount of illegals that are incarcerated in the U.S at the taxpayers expense, it sounds like removing people that shouldn’t be there in the first place is a good idea.
How could any American seeing Trump’s commanding presence and leadership in Mexico yesterday..and then hear that speech on how to accomplish securing the country. How could they still vote for a morally bankrupt, exhausted globalist Clinton?
Howdy headcases — Europe won’t be doing the same and Trump won’t be doing anything because he won’t be president.
lolz
You sound angry and desperate Peter. Like someone who is losing bigly lolz
Well, I make two claims there and both are true. So I think it’s your who is desperate.
By the way, thousands more migrants are arriving in Europe each day, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You must feel so helpless.
You are wrong and will be proven wrong on November 9th. Trump is going to be the next POTUS.
PMSL
Clinton today. Every bit as bad as Trump. Probably worse:
The United States is an exceptional nation. I believe we are still Lincoln’s last, best hope of Earth. We’re still Reagan’s shining city on a hill. We’re still Robert Kennedy’s great, unselfish, compassionate country.
And it’s not just that we have the greatest military or that our economy is larger than any on Earth. It’s also the strength of our values, the strength of the American people. Everyone who works harder, dreams bigger and never, ever stops trying to make our country and the world a better place. And part of what makes America an exceptional nation, is that we are also an indispensable nation.
We recognize America’s unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress, a champion for freedom and opportunity. Our power comes with a responsibility to lead, humbly, thoughtfully, and with a fierce commitment to our values.
LOLZ . And that’s not just at the opening line which refers to two Republican presidents LOLZ
Pissing yourself laughing, rolling around laughing, lolling, lolzing. Incontinence, bi polar and now some sort of tourettes. You’re a pharmacist’s wet dream Petr.
Dain / Liam,
Calm down pet.
Good video here on all Hillary’s flip flops and much more
https://youtu.be/a-xjiXfJ58Q
The best outcome could be for Wikileaks to nail Hillary before the election and thus resurrecting Bernie who would then beat Trump.
Hey, it’s America – anything is possible
True that Pádraig. Shillary is a vicious thug. Bernie would beat Trump. Bernie or bust.
Open-Border Extremist Petr exposing how he revels in the suffering of European children as he sneeringly says:
“By the way, thousands more migrants are arriving in Europe each day, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You must feel so helpless.”
Can you imagine if some white person said the same about whites flooding into some African country like Nigeria, committing rapes and murders, causing them to become a minority in their own country….and we laughed about it. What would the Open-Border Extremists say about that? Petr is an Open-Border Extremist and like all open-Border Extremists, they want to see Europeans destroyed.
Petr mocks and laughs at this:
list documents more than 160 instances of rape and sexual assault committed by migrants in train stations, swimming pools and other public places against victims as young as seven.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/cologne-is-every-day-europes-rape-epidemic/news-story/e2e618e17ad4400b5ed65045e65e141d
Petr I’ll speak your language with you don’t mind Dain. Lolz, PMSL, roflmao!! What’s you counter argument?
Donnie Trumpie is making me have similiar feelings as Petr ..LOL
Donnie wants to do the EXACT same thing the Obama administration is doing now ..LOL
Obama’s administration deported nearly 170,000 last year alone LOL
And all of the Donnies on here are congratulating him ..LOL
“Over the course of FY 2015, ICE has improved its ability to target individuals who threaten public safety and national security as demonstrated by the fact that 98 percent of individuals that ICE removed met ICE’s civil immigration enforcement priorities. As these revised enforcement priorities continue to take hold, and state and local cooperation increases, ICE expects continued progress in ensuring its resources are appropriately focused in keeping our nation safe and secure.”
https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics
Donnie is very nearly making me PMSL too …LOL
Lolling at all you fools who believe Trump who would sell his granny and yours to be the next POTUS. He doesn’t give a flying f about anybody but himself so you are all his wet dream!
“Shouldn’t be there in the first place”
Can we start with all the white people then?
What a jerk. Completely alienating the Mexican administration. Hey Donald, explain how you are going to make Mexico pay for the wall? More BS talk from Trump.
Read it again Jurgen. He said criminal immigrants. He’s dead right. We should be doing the same
It’s not just the immigrants with criminal records, it’s the targeting of Obama policies that help other undocumented immigrants. This article does not cover fully Trump’s claims.
The journal deliberately took the quote out of context, as per usual. Journalistic standards and ethics are in the toilet over at Journal Towers.
The reason the journal does that is for views, which in turn generates revenue
So Patrick, you agree with Jurgen, the full quote is worse
Full correct quote for those of us who care about fairness and accuracy in reporting: “According to federal data, there are at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside the country. We will begin moving them out day one, in joint operations with local, state and federal law enforcement. Beyond the 2 million, there are a vast number of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled or evaded justice. But their days on the run will soon be over. They go out, and they go out fast”
Yep, completely out of context. The Journal banks on people not listening to the full speech
Joe mc, he wants to remove all illegal immigrants. Go listen to his speech.
Declan is actually right here for once. Trump is a disgusting bigot.
Dublin. Listen again. He said criminal illegal immigrants,
@Petr
“Trump is a disgusting bigot.”
How?
Donnie Trumpie wants to do what the Obama administration is already doing … LOL
This is brilliant stuff …LOL
Round them all up ..LOL …”We know who you are and we’re coming for you NOW “..LOL
“Hey you Mr/Mrs immigrant over there..you look like a criminal and everyone of you are coming with me ..” Lol
But if anyone can work it out,it will be our special Donnie that will work it all out..LOL
Anone who thinks that illegals who break the law ought not be kicked out is sick and Americans are sick of that mushy mushy strata of society who want to mother-goose the bad boys. These mother-goosers are suckers and will bring down a nation faster than any external attack. Just look at France and Germany and Sweden and even the UK.
Dump them out Donald!They will quickly be replaced by those who lined up according to the rules showing that they wont become disrespectful citizens and neighbours..
Wells said, The key word that everyone seem to gloss over is ILLEGAL. Last time I checked every other country in the world doesn’t allow illegal immigration. But because the US wants to clamp down on it everybody frowns upon it.
Trump is the biggest hypocrite. Models from his Modelling agency have all stated that they came to the US on tourist visas and worked ILLEGALLY. He doesn’t mind illegal immigrants that line his own pockets.
Consistent Don does it again! Where are the naysayers who predicted a massive U-turn on his tough but fair approach to illegal immigration? Two YUGE campaign events yesterday, demonstrating his energy, stamina and determination to do what has to be done for the American people meanwhile Hillary Clinton will go into hiding for another 3 or 4 days after her latest brief public appearance.
The tide is turning in this race, Trump has seized the momentum, the Hildabots can sense this…and they don’t like it one bit.
Well said!
Dirty Donny lying about his discussion with an actual president was hilarious. The AmeriCAN’T met the MexiCAN
Dave give it a rest. Like him or not, Trump now sets the narrative that the media and you have been following with great interest.
This guy is such a clown I think he’s going to win
Jynx, last week you were saying the media were trying to ruin him now you’re saying he is setting the agenda, which is it?
The media are trying to ruin him. Trump is setting the agenda. They’re two different things Dave.
Tide or no tide he’s down nearly double digits in Colorado and Virginia. His path to 270 is nearly impossible. Maybe he turns some rustbelt states competitive with talk of mass deportations but he alienates moderates in a whole other set of states
Donald another fascist the world doesn’t need.
Are Nigerians fascist if they want to keep Nigeria for the people of their country and not allowing mass-immigration?
White men are taking the world back for white men! Yay!
Like him more each day. Go Trump.
Maybe he could make the Mexicans wear some sort of a symbol so that people would know what they are.
Some sort of a gold star maybe.
I really dont think it is too far a stretch to start comparing Trump to Hitler.
This is history repeating itself.
Real air of desperation in that feeble little post of yours.
Hitler. Are you for real. While the Clintons are responsible for 2 and a half million deaths since its ridiculous foreign policy was introduced. . You should think again
So people are not allowed have their country for their people
when did this start up?
Yeah give America back to the Indians and deport all the Europeans. Everyone is entitled to their own country. Oh you just meant white people?
Reading some of the comments on here it would seem that we have a lot people who are as stupid as those along the Bible belt of America.
This fella is cracked
Reminds me of Team America when your man said, ‘I will never die’… This time it’s real and it’s ‘you’ll build the wall’- and some actually think this is going well! FOL
Always indulge and play up to prejudices and bigotry is Trump’s approach to politics.
Yes and the knuckle draggers love it. It will never win him an election though.
Is enforcing border security prejudiced and bigotry?
There is a LOT less people crossing the border ..LOL
Have ye ever actually looked at the statistics ..LOL
Mrs trump better start packing so…
because she is Mex…
because she is an illeg..
Hopefully the rest of the world will treat Trump as an undesirable foreigner and confine him within the borders of the USA.
Fear not…..with the US automotive industry moving south of the border for cheap labour…….it won’t be long before US citizens are climbing the new Trump wall for a better life in Mexico. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/06/15/auto-jobs-mexico/71224972/
All thanks to NAFTA……lol
I think that’s the idea Al with Trump in charge Ford would have to stay in Detroit
Detroit is now a wasteland and bankrupt. NAFTA has made Canada the most sued nation on earth….US lawyers are cleaning up on behalf of US corps. The dollar is God….Trump will not interfere with his God.
He is right, if we all done that, we wouldn’t have innocent people been killed.
Well said Mick
Seriously. . The journal biased coverage off the American election is getting silly now …
He’s like the little mouthy kid we all knew in school. . Wouldn’t say booo to a mouse but when he’s out of swinging range from anyone it’s all “I’ll do this, I’ll do that.. ” How in the name of fluch have the ‘Murricanians not copped on to him yet
‘Illegal immigrants with criminal records’
Gonna be a lot of empty real estate in Florida next year once the Cubans have gone.
Guys, why don’t we club together, organize a consortium and make a killing on the market.
Cmon, payback time for Yankee imperialism.
But what he doesnt realise is that without the mexicans doing all the cheap labour the US economy would have sunk by now. (This is also a little discussed reason for germany and other european countries to let in the immigrants as europe is in dire need of some cheap labour)
Yes, you do have a problem with letting in a few people who cause trouble, but if youre looking to start blaming people for things most of the ‘illegal’ guns used for killing people in mexico are from the US. And the funds for running cartels comes from the average american buying drugs. The world is more interconnected than you think. If you can blame one people for all your problems then you definitely dont see the big picture.
No matter which side of the fence you’re on, this is all empty inflammatory vote seeking bullshit. Even if he does become president, he’ll u-turn on all this to maintain the approval ratings. That’s what politicians do, tell people what they want to hear & then never live up to it. It’s all about winning the election, not fulfilling promises.
Jimmy, can you explain why you believe Trump is a politician? or did you just write that to make yourself look intelligent?
Agree Jimmy I think he would shit himself if he won. He knows nothing about deportation, he would have divided America along the most racial lines and I can’t believe too many businesses would have faith in him. He would not make America great again.
I do believe the trying to become POTUS has certain political acetones to it Val. Ironic you displayed stupidity to question intelligence.
He is right, if we all done that innocent life would not be taken so easy
Terrible comment Mick
Tired of hearing this clown’s guff. Clinton will be no better but she will win. Trump is simply a fool.
Crazy world . 5/2 second fav
Nobody remembers the runner up!
I have a substantial bet on him to win @ 3/1. In reality illegal aliens with criminal records and caught committing crime will be prioritised. He is a fantastic candidate, watch his rallies. Great diction and command of English. He has the establishment scared and Hillary hiding under the bed
LOL
SEND A TIP TO THE AUTHOR PAUL …PAUL HERE A TIP DO MORE RESEARCH BE A REPORTER AND DON’T BE SO BIASES NEARLY TIME TO BOYCOTT THE JOURNAL FOR UNFAIR REPORTING
whack the donata
The Washington Post has a very thought-provoking editorial about the un-American demagogue,liar and hatemonger Trump. Rather than posting a link, I’ll cut and paste it in full: Trump doubles down on his illogical, un-American immigration plans
By Editorial Board September 1 at 7:23 PM
IT’S USEFUL that Donald Trump has clarified his plans for Larissa Martinez, who started classes this week as a freshman at Yale University, having graduated in the spring as class valedictorian at her Texas high school. After weeks of waffling, and suggestions that his views on immigration might be “softening,” Mr. Trump has set the record straight: Ms. Martinez has no future in America.
The recipient of a full scholarship to Yale, Ms. Martinez is hoping for a career as a neurosurgeon. As it happens, she’s also a top-notch student, a compelling public speaker and, according to Mr. Trump’s policy, a high priority for deportation.
Discarding his dalliance with fairness and compassion, the Republican presidential nominee this week tossed red meat to the xenophobes in his base by reaffirming his intention to launch a crusade of mass deportations that would target, according to an analysis by The Post, at least 6 million people. Among them, he said, would be immigrants who have overstayed their visas. That category would sweep up Ms. Martinez, who, at age 13, accompanied her mother and sister to the United States on a tourist visa; they stayed after the visa expired, having fled an abusive home in Mexico.
Of course, there is no place in Mr. Trump’s cramped mental universe for someone like Ms. Martinez. To Mr. Trump and the crowds who egg him on, undocumented immigrants are criminals, murderers, rapists, carriers of disease and drug smugglers, fit to be rounded up by deportation agents and shipped far, far away.
Just why Mr. Trump would prioritize visa-overstayers for deportation, and not those who entered the country illegally in the first place, is unexplained. Logic is hardly the point of his policy. He asserts that illegal immigrants have stolen jobs from Americans and triggered a crime wave. In fact, they have met a labor market demand for low-wage workers and been a catalyst for economic growth.
While there are undoubtedly instances of terrible crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants — as there are by authorized immigrants, and green card holders, and, it goes without saying, citizens — they are hardly the rule. In fact, young immigrant males are incarcerated at roughly half the rate of native-born Americans. Illegal immigrants, like legal ones, are generally law-abiding and extremely hard-working.
To the GOP nominee, illegal immigrants are a useful instrument with which to whip his supporters into a froth of nativist agitation. He would hire thousands more immigration and Border Patrol agents; he would create a “special deportation task force”; he would round up the criminals whose countries refuse to accept them. He would do it all on Day One, in the first hour, the first minute, in the first fleeting seconds of his administration — by fiat, presumably, because he makes no reference to Congress or legality or judicial precedent. It will all be so fast, so beautiful, so efficient. Believe him.
The self-contained imposter who called briefly on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Wednesday was masquerading as Donald Trump. In fact, the real Mr. Trump is the man who has been on television all these months, playing on hatred and fear, threatening people such as Ms. Martinez, who represent American values more truly than Mr. Trump ever could.
Trump’s ludicrous ‘deport em all’ plan has a measly 17% approval rating, with the vast majority supporting natualisation rather than deportation. His rhetoric is just to gain cheers from his core supporters, who are a bunch of ill-informed, right-wing racists. They’re either too dumb or willfully ignorant of the fact that immigration into the states from Mexico is actually down. Last year, there were more Mexicans leaving the States than entering. But just so long as they have their racism legitimised, they’ll keep cheering, and Trump will keep lapping it up. He has no plan. He is just a gas bag moron.
Trump doesn’t live in the real world. I’m not against evicting illegal immigrants who have criminal records, but this idiot apparently hasn’t contemplated the issue of all their relatives including children, baby mamas, wives, grandparents of the ones with criminal records.
Also he is playing with fire… The Mexican gangs can get to just about anyone. I believe they’ve had Texas judges assassinated.
Dave, you know Trump is just a blow hard, they don’t have the money to carry all that out…
Dave. No gang can get to just about anyone, if the state is strong and the people support the state and the police are given the resources to take them on, they will be crushed. If Trump wins he will crush them.
Trump parades about like he is “Cock of the Walk”, when the nearest he will get to actually being that, is walking about under the “Cock of Hay” on his head.
Cock-A-Doodle,
He’s a complete idiot. And so are the people who support him and his warped ideology.
Aren’t all Americans of European or African ‘stock’ illegal immigrants, or descendants of such immigrants?
The SJW’s are in for a big shock
I feel a fatwa coming on
Give it 2 flushes then…
The polls are tightening in Trump’s favour, 18 % ahead in West Virginia.
Invasion of Iraq based on lies, killing Gaddafi because he was setting up an alternative currency to the dollar. Death mayhem and the rise of ISIS. Handing 20% of America’s Uranium to Russia in return for them paying 700,000 dollars to Bill Clinton as a speaking fee.
Still she leads in the polls. We could be in serious trouble and the EU will come to take your sons to war.
Bill only got a bl@w job, but Hilary will fcuk the whole country.
You want to read the FBI report into the latest Hillary e mails, Unbelievable
Somewhere between Trump Style and Kenny style lies a brilliant leader
Hillary and Trump prove that they act like bullies and say things they know will get support by telling nutcases what they want to hear and that will get their vote because they are agreeing with the nutcases by telling them that they are right in what they believe. Trump with immigrants and Hillary on UFO’s and so on…
The second best thing bullies do is to make others believe their sack of sh…
The winner will be the biggest a…hole with the greatest a…holes supporting them. That is how this election will be won as the normal folk are sick and tired of them and also really hate both of them…
Good stuff
One how many Irish are living illegally in America and have criminal records? The story doesn’t mention Mexicans specifically.
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