Nokia Lumia 530, UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Dark Grey

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However, this only really applies to the real core of the Windows Phone 8.1 system – the home screen and apps menu. All bets are off when you head into an app, and here we do start to see the cuts to the Lumia 530’s internals a bit. Thankfully, though, the system makes it very easy to install apps to a microSD card. We tried again, this time with a 64GB microSD installed. Large patches of cloud are a little noisy, but it’s not very noticeable even at its native resolution stand-by time is the longest time a battery charge will last, if the device is not used but is constantly connected to the 3G mobile network.

CPU is the Central Processing Unit or the processor of a mobile device. Its main function is to interpret and execute instructions contained in software applications. It’s a small, fairly low-res display. However, much like the Lumia 520, as the screen is quite small the pixellating effects of the resolution aren’t terrible.The Lumia 530 comes in a slate form factor with 4-inch touchscreen. The viewing angles are slightly reduced compared to other phones in the Lumia line. The L2 (level 2) cache memory is slower than L1, but has a larger capacity, instead, which allows it to cache more data. Just like L1, it is much faster than the system memory (RAM). If the CPU does not find the data needed in L2, it proceeds to look for them in the L3 cache memory (if there is such) or in the RAM.

One of the main characteristics of the cameras is their image resolution. It states the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the image, which can also be shown in megapixels that indicate the approximate number of pixels in millions. Altering brightness to cope with daylight reveals one of the Lumia 530’s most annoying traits, though. Like the Lumia 630, there’s no auto brightness setting as the phone does not have an ambient light sensor.

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There are a few positive things to say about the screen’s construction, though. It may not use Gorilla Glass 3, but the top glass layer does still seem to be pretty tough. Weak screen coverings tend to flex pretty easily under pressure, but with the Lumia 530 you have to press just as hard as you do with Gorilla Glass to make the screen distort. The Lumia 530’s 5-megapixel rear camera is a cut above most other budget cameras. 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. 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.

You may also be surprised to hear that the Lumia 530 is actually less powerful than the Lumia 520. While the older phone has just two cores of 1GHz a piece, its cores are much better than the 530’s, using a more advanced 28nm Krait architecture. Its Adreno 305 GPU is also a fair bit better than the Lumia 530’s Adreno 302.Battery The batteries of mobile devices differ in capacity and technology. They provide the electrical charge needed for the functioning of the devices. Capacity