The range of Lumia phones is rather expansive, there are a whole range of phones spanning from the lowly Lumia 520 through to the enourmous and powerful Lumia 1520. The 8xx series Lumia have always felt odd to me, the 820 was overshadowed by the cameras in the 920 and 925 and underpriced by the 620 and 720.
The 8xx series phones are meant to be the Lumia mid range offering decent specs, decent build quality and all for not a lot of money. I’ve had the Lumia 830 for a few weeks now and it’s prime time to bring you my review, starting of course with the good and bad points.
Good and Bad
Good
- Great overall design that feels good in the hand.
- Removable battery.
- Micro SD slot up to 128 GB.
- Quick 10 MP Pureview camera.
- Glance Screen.
- Screen is bright, colourful and crisp.
- Speedy performance throughout the OS.
Bad
- Nano SIM needs preparing for with your network beforehand.
- Photo quality takes a nose dive in low light.
- Metal sides make for quite a slippy phone.
Design
The Nokia Lumia 830 is a great looking piece of kit, reminiscent of the more powerful, more expensive and thicker Lumia 930. In actual fact the 830 being thinner actually looks the nicer of the two.
Two things dominate the design of the Lumia 830, firstly the metal frame around the edges of the phone and secondly the rather familiar looking camera surround on the back.
The edges of the 830 are typical Lumia fare really, with the camera, power and volume rocker all on the right hand side, as you'd expect the camera button wakes the device straight into the camera if you want quick shots.
Also rather interestingly they’ve put the Micro USB port and the headphone socket on the top edge of the phone, both of which have some sort of plastic insert in them which seems to protect the metal frame.
The front of the phone is pretty much standard Windows Phone layout with capacitive buttons beneath the screen, as opposed to the onscreen controls, you also get the earpiece, front facing camera and sensors at the top of the screen. The screen also bares the Nokia branding which is probably one of the last devices to come with it on.
