This flagship operating system Windows Phone 8.1 released already some time ago, but in this article we would like to introduce to you is not an ordinary review, and the prevailing opinion after six months of using a smartphone. The text at the same time to answer, as far as viable – to use Windows Phone as the main operating system.

Ergonomics

Smartphone Lumia 930 is still the best smartphone on Windows Phone in particular, and one of the best champions of all smartphones in general. This also applies to its performance and speed and wireless capabilities and quality of the camera. The latter, incidentally, top branded chip devices Microsoft Devices – perhaps the only smartphones that camera quality can really compete with the iPhone.

Smartphone Lumia 930

But first I want to say a few words about ergonomics smartphone. There is only one minus – the case of heavy. However, this can strain only at the beginning, during the transition to Lumia 930 with another smartphone. In the future, a relatively large mass of the smartphone is not felt, but the device in your hand with confidence, does not slip and fall.

Slightly convex screen, incidentally, is also easy to handle. On the one hand, the edges perfectly grope the other – no irritating protrusions. Initially may have feared that because of this form will overwrite the screen quickly, covered with scratches, but in reality all appeared six months minor scratches and scrapes hardly noticeable. While that film on the screen is not stuck.

Buttons and connectors are located and comfortable feel them blindly is not a problem. Pleases and hide the SIM-card (nano-SIM), which can be easily opened without the use of third-party tools (such as “clip” for iPhone). However, hot-swappable SIM cards still somehow not – have to restart your smartphone (turns off).

Performance

We have said many times (and not just in this article) that the performance of all devices on Windows Phone is no problem, especially in the Lumia 930. However, “just in case”, decided to include in the article a paragraph. Incidentally, the benchmark for WP and especially not and because the platform does not trust, but because special meaning in them not. The fact there are both positive and negative reasons.

Positive – good optimization of the interface and the operating system kernel and rigid requirements to the software do its job.

In general, in the Lumia 930 still “flying” applications open almost instantly, those games that is, do not brake at all.

Operating system

Perhaps the only problem that users may encounter with your smartphone on Windows Phone – lack of application services (branded application of various brands, restaurants, etc.). On the other hand, on the same Android client Instagram, for example, appeared much later iOS – and one of Android-users it stop? Of course, the number of applications for WP is constantly growing, that is, there is no stagnation and not going, despite criticism spiteful critics.

Office on Windows Phone

In practice, all that is needed the most – there. Even Instagram, although it is still in beta status and problems with encoding in notifications (only in them, in the application Russian language is displayed without problems).

Notification system Windows Phone

But Windows Phone, there are many strengths. First of all, it is practically impossible to find a smartphone, which inhibits WP. More precisely, the interface of the OS does not slow down at all anywhere, just some applications for state employees may lag. However, we’re talking about the Lumia 930, the flagship, and you can be sure – this smartphone will become obsolete very long. You could even say that the Lumia (any) – a profitable investment and competent purchase, if you do not love me smartphone every six months or a year.

Music player – nothing extra and everything is clear

Next – the convenience of the OS, its interface. Yes, it is convenience. We do not write nothing about this is in the “experience of using” – it is no secret that the Windows Phone interface paradigms are very different from iOS and Android (the last rose of iOS, like Eve from Adam’s rib) which is why for a beginner WP highly unusual . But the “unusual” and “uncomfortable” – not only different-sounding words, but even not synonymous. If you, for example, went to the hatchback, and then boarded a jeep – also initially be an unusually long time.

Thus, in Windows Phone indeed many advantages. First of all, the clever use of display area on the start screen. If you have experience with Android-smartphone, you probably imagine what we are. There difficult one screen to dial a lot of widgets, but that they were made in the same style. As a rule, on the same screen typical of Android-smartphone can accommodate one or two widgets – the authors very much like graphic excesses, while the user is interested in the first place, the information itself.

In Windows Phone, in addition to the standardized size “tiles” are also very well choose the size, and the very writing of the text (font). However, large page titles settings a bit knocked out of this rule (but still look organically). Look at how much info is placed on one screen smartphone on Windows Phone.

And if a little scroll down, there will be more. The advantage of the interface is active for that tile (widgets) and simple static icons includes the same dimensions. And it just fine. And the problems with mixing visual styles arise – everything looks organically.

Also very interesting is the possibility tracking status updates on social networks particular person – that he wrote in facebook, vkontakte, twitter. You can synchronize data with their social networks contacts list on your smartphone, view social activity of friends, their photos and albums directly from the notebook.

By the way, it is convenient that the update for Lumia Denim WP 8.1 added the ability to group tiles in the folder. Moreover, innovation does not destroy the visual interface paradigm – this is important.

Folder in Windows Phone can also be of different sizes – choose

Well, in general, in the interface of Windows Phone happy minimalism. This more than any other operating system is tuned exactly to the perception of information, so there is nothing superfluous. Incidentally, in the iOS and Android gradually begin to appear interface elements and paradigms of Windows Phone. Although generally similar to minimalism and angles – a modern trend and may, Microsoft just managed its first “catch”.

But most importantly, the interface Lumia 930 responsive as possible – this is often lacking on Android. In addition, it is very comfortable virtual keyboard, you do not even want anything to change (alas, iOS has not yet acquired is as comfortable keyboard).

Camera – Nokia Lumia 930

At Nokia, and now Microsoft has a lot of experience in the production of camera phones. One can recall the Nokia N8 – the first smartphone with a matrix of 1 / 1,8 ”, Nokia 808 PureView – the first smartphone with a camera 41 megapixel, or the same Lumia 1020 – almost 808 analogue of the cell, but on Windows Phone.

Lumia 930 is also not knocked out of the series. By the way, they say that it is worth the same camera module as in the Lumia 1520, but we have the photos do not think so. But anything can happen – post-processing software also makes its own adjustments.

20-megapixel module Lumia 930 takes off really well, even though the camera’s software, and there are problems with the assessment of white balance, because of what can suffer color rendition in JPEG (or rather, can look unnatural color reproduction from the point of view of the user, so that the color is quite normal).

By default, the camera takes pictures in 5 megapixel resolution, more than enough even for viewing on a computer screen, and the “extra” megapixels uses to sharpen, plus as a reserve for the digital zoom. That is, zoom in approximately 2.5 times you can almost lossless (fall field will still be, but is not as noticeable as on other smartphones).

In addition to this, you can specify in the settings of the camera to take one picture in 5 megapixels and a 19 megapixel. But the most interesting – is setting up a 5 megapixel JPEG and 19 megapixel RAW (using the format DNG, Adobe proposed and supported by all anciently widespread RAW-converters). If you are a fan of processed pictures (and process a series of shots Lightroom – easier than ever), it can be useful. From the RAW image actually can be pulled and the lights and shadows and even make HDR. And for white balance can not worry – colors will be such as you wish.

Although, admittedly, often to the processing of RAW, we did not use – still mobile photography is more about “navёl, removed, laid out in the social network” than about image processing.

Battery

Any surprises from the Lumia 930 was not. Smartphone always lived out until the end of the working day and sometimes had the stock the next day. However, the Windows Phone does not have one very nice feature – even in standby mode, it consumes a lot of energy. That is, if you do not use your smartphone, put it on the shelf, it “will live” is not much longer than in the operating mode.

On the other hand, the disadvantage is difficult to call it – in fact, do not buy smartphones in order to lie on the shelf. In addition, any modern man who prefers a top model among smartphones, a long time is worth to have a useful habit to charge the smartphone once a day, and even carry a compact external battery. We recommend using some equipped with a diode flashlight – always handy. Or brand – for example, portable charger Microsoft DC-21. Well, just in case (and the cases are different).

In total – Nokia Lumia 930

So, in practice, the smartphone Lumia 930 was not just viable, but also extremely convenient mobile device. Since it is much less of a problem than a typical smartphone Android (even if we are only talking about the top models), with no particular disadvantage, and the camera can and does work wonders in the right hands.

The screen did not cause any complaints – use it comfortably warm even on the beach of the bright hot sun. Music headphones sounds right. The performance is sufficient for all released for Windows Phone toys.

Well, the OS still after prolonged use leaves a good impression. Do not argue, there are drawbacks, but “childhood diseases” is not there for a long time, and proprietary advantages sometimes very severely lacking when using other smartphones on the iOS and Android.

Source: Microsoft

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Smartphone Nokia Lumia 930 runs on Windows Phone 8.1. Brief specifications of the smartphone Lumia 930: 4-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 2.2 GHz, 2 GB of RAM memory, 32 GB ROM, work in the frequency bands GSM 900/1800/1900, standards support data transmission GPRS, EGPRS, EDGE, HSPA, LTE, interfaces, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, chamber 20 and 1.2 Mpixel., built-in GPS chips with feature A-GPS, GLONASS.

The first Nokia smartphone running WP 8.1 and, concurrently, the current flagship of the manufacturer. Trump card – 20Mp PureView camera with optical image stabilization, optics Carl Zeiss , dual LED-flash and numerous fotoprilozheniyami. How successful was model as the next “killer” shoot cameras from Nokia and is worthy of its price tag if at $ 630. All this and not only on.

Scope of delivery – Lumia 930

The smartphone comes in a cardboard box with a new design for the Lumia devices – now it is more compact and is in bright colors.

In the box to the Nokia Lumia 930 manufacturer put charger adapter cable, USB -micro / USB and documentation. Given the price tag of the device positioning and I am personally surprised by the absence of the headset. Obviously, the Nokia emphasis on picking this model does not emphasize.

Design – Lumia 930

Lumia 930 is a heavy (167 grams) bar with a metal frame and a 5-inch OLED LCD monitor.

Design smartphone, in my opinion, definitely not boring due to the effect that creates its appearance slightly convex protective glass Gorilla glass 3, covers the front panel.

I’m sure many will like a soft-touch soft-touch coating the rear panel, through which smartphone does not slip in your hand. Chosen by the manufacturer quality material seemed to me, although predicting its “behavior” with careless use of a tube not say.

Version of 930 minutes with a white and bright orange coloring will suit young and energetic, we also got to taste the classic black device.

To build quality is difficult to find fault even with a strong desire, as the body of the smartphone Nokia flagships traditionally monolithic – no squeaks, not “playing” in the hands.

Lumia 930 has received support wireless charging Qi, for which he had to pay a rather “plump” body (137x71x9,8 mm) compared to the flagship competition. However, despite this, it is quite comfortable to hold even in a female hand, and all the controls are placed close enough to each other, within easy reach of the thumb.

Functional elements – Lumia 930

At the top of the front panel are the earpiece grille, eye 1.2Mp front-facing camera, light sensor and proximity, as well as high-performance digital microphone HAAC (High Amplitude Audio Capture), used for directional stereo.

The latest in a tube only four – one located under the system using the “Back”, “Start” and “Search”, and the two remaining top and bottom of the rear panel. Their “tandem” implements technology Nokia Rich Recording, which allows you to “cut off” background noise when recording sound during video recording and so, consequently, improves the quality of sound. The dynamic range of the recording for Nokia Rich Recording is 107 dB (from 33 to 140 dB SPL).

On the back of the smartphone user “find” a small output speakerphone, basic eye PureView 20Mp camera, dual LED-flash and the logo of the manufacturer.

The top end is placed under the 3.5mm audio jack and a sliding slot for nano-SIM card. By the way, to open it does not need a special “clip”, it is enough to hook.

At the bottom of “marginalia” to equip the port micro-USB, and on the right are located the volume rocker, power button and start key camera / shutter button.

Display – Lumia 930

Lumia 930 has a 5-inch OLED-display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, pixel density per inch – 441.

Traditionally, the flagship Nokia screen is made using a proprietary technology ClearBlack, which provides the most clear and vivid display of colors, especially black.

From small bumps and scratches protects him slightly convex glass Gorilla Glass 3.

The screen has high contrast and excellent viewing angles both vertically and horizontally. Reserve its brightness enough for any environment, including for comfortable reading under direct sunlight. Everything else, in devayse implemented an optional feature that allows you to work in bright light.

The backlight is adjusted manually, or (s) automatically. In addition, the disposal of the user several display modes display – Use the slider to play with the brightness and saturation to make more muted colors or overstated.

One of the major “chips” screen Lumia 930 – possibility to control it not only finger but also nails, stylus, as well as all types of gloves. Sensor layer is responsible for 10 simultaneous touches.

Features and performance – Lumia 930

“Heart” became the flagship 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8974 800 with a clock speed of 2.2 GHz and Adreno 330 graphics. The RAM is 2 GB.

“Iron”, but not “top” of today, however, provides excellent performance WP-smartphone – Play Full HD -video, smooth operation interface, smart Web surfing, quick application launcher and no slowdown, even in the most demanding games . Here are just a load of smartphone gaming heats up at the bottom.

Memory – Lumia 930

The volume of the built-in flash drive with the capacity of the tube and there is no slot for memory expansion, plus support for USB-OTG specification is not the largest – 32 GB, of which you will get around 25 GB. There is a kind of “bonus” in the form of 7 free gigabytes of cloud storage OneDrive.

Communications – Lumia 930

In this respect, Lumia 930 all the latest technology, as indeed befits a flagship. There is support for all networks, including 4G LTE, 2-band Wi-Fi 802.11 A / b / G / n / AC (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA , Wi-Fi Hotspot, Miracast Bluetooth 4.0 , GPS , GLONASS and NFC .

Autonomy – Lumia 930

Capacity 2420 mAh non-removable battery that allows the smartphone to work with moderate use day and a half. On average it lasts for 4-6 hours of playback Full HD video, depending on the brightness of the screen, or 15-16 hours of talk time.

Charge can “fill up”, including through the wireless charging standard Qi. For example, I use the battery panel DT-601.

All very easy – just connect it to any USB-port and you put it on your smartphone. By the way, the manufacturer offers a variety of other accessories for recharging “mobile friend” in all shapes and sizes.

I also note that in the settings devaysa provides power save mode.

Speakers – Lumia 930

The volume of the first high – the interlocutor can hear clearly and legibly. In general, the voice quality is great.

Multimedia power is enough for a comfortable listening to the audio in a room. In other cases still rely on headphones. By the way, the last connection gives you access to more and FM-radio.

In Lumia 930 uses audio technology Dolby Surround Sound and has a built-in equalizer. Start with features audio equalization and improvement of dialogue. In turn, the EQ allows you to optimize the sound quality of the music player in accordance with the style of song you listened to. In fact, everything is the best way affect the quality of the reproduced sound.

Camera – Lumia 930

Lumia 930 by analogy with the test before Lumia 1520 got photomodule branded PureView with 20-megapixel sensor 1 / 2.5-inch BSI-matrix.

That’s the only difference being the pore fableta Finns in 2014, the flagship of the camera lens, which uses 6-lens optics Carl Zeiss, an inch sticks out above the surface of the body.

Its effective focal length – 26 mm, the minimum focus range – 10 cm, and the maximum aperture – f / 2.4.
Camera systems supplemented AF and optical image stabilization, dual LED flash. It is worth noting also 2x digital zoom when shooting and 4-fold when recording video. Last smartphone shoots in a maximum resolution of Full HD at 30 frames per second.

Another “plus” camera Lumia 930 – the ability to take photos in the “raw” format RAW (DNG), thereby giving the user the opportunity to “create” your photos with all that your heart desires.

Thanks to this set of characteristics, as well as numerous specialty fotoprilozheniyam camera smartphone makes high-quality images even in the most well lit and in automatic mode. And if you use the manual, allowing yourself to change the exposure, white balance, the value of ISO and shutter speed, eventually you can get off and on sort of a “fotoshedevr” who is not ashamed to hang the frame.

By the way, you can take pictures with the virtual keys on the display or the most convenient, special hardware button on the case.

The user is a large number of fotoprilozheny, allowing to simulate the photographs depth of field, to apply animation effects, special filters and stuff.

For example, the Nokia camera that combines modes Nokia Pro Cam and Nokia Smart Cam, allows you to not only edit photos but also sharing them in social networks. «Nokia Stories” as photo diary, combines photos by time and place of the shooting in such a “story” and “Revived photo” of a series of frames “creates” the animation in the selected image area.

In front of the wide-angle camera 1.2Mp matrix and a lens with an aperture of f / 2.4. It records video in HD-quality and it is enough for the self and communication in Skype .

Software – Lumia 930

The smartphone runs on Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia Cyan with many useful features and preinstalled free services from Microsoft and Nokia. Among them: a program to work with office documents Office, OneNote – analogue of the usual stationery pad, navigation package from HERE Drive +, HERE Maps and HERE Transit (cards work in offline mode), applications Bing: «Health and fitness”, “Cooking” , “Finance”, “News”, “Travel”, “Sport”, “weather”, and many others.

Smartphone desktop consists of three columns of live tiles, and Notification Center drop-down shutter presented with access to all notifications and settings. In addition, the platform is built personal voice assistant Cortana, provides separate volume control and new lock screen customization.

Conclusions – Lumia 930

Nokia Lumia 930 is probably the best solution in the segment of smartphones Windows Phone 8.1.

Undoubted advantages of the device – Cancel productivity and bright OLED-display with supersensitive surface and wide viewing angles, excellent main camera, which, in my opinion, is superior in features photo-modules many recent Android -flagmanov. For some, it may be important that the smartphone does not have a memory card slot and headphone included, but for me, in fact it turned out really is not so critical.

The estimated cost of Lumia 930 is $ 630, and a slightly lower price, of course, would give him a much better chance in the market, but given the small market share of WP, in the apparatus there is every reason for the success.

Pros Lumia 930

– High-quality assembly;
– High performance;
– Great display / Wide viewing angles / protective glass Gorilla Glass 3;
– Ability to wireless charging Qi;
– Loud speakers;
– Cancel the camera with a wide range of software for processing photos;
– Decent autonomy.

Cons Lumia 930

– Heats up under gaming load;
– No slot for MicroSD -card;
– No headphones included with the price tag.

Estimated price: $ 630

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