NOKIA LUMIA 530 Overview: Nokia's Cheapest Windows Phone

NOKIA LUMIA 530 Overview: Nokia's Cheapest Windows Phone

Nokia Lumia 530 is Microsoft/Nokia cheapest smartphone running on Windows is now available to the users. Lumia 530 is running on the latest Windows Phone 8.1 mobile OS. Nokia Lumia 530 is priced at ₹ 7,349 is a basic smartphone. This entry level smartphone may be compared with Nokia's successful smartphone Lumia 520 and 525. To achieve the price range of 7k Microsoft/Nokia cuts many corners of smartphone. The only good thing in this smartphone is its price, Its a low budget smartphone running on the Windows Phone 8.1 OS.

Form-Factor of Lumia 530:

The form-factor of Lumia 530 is bar phone which is having 4-inch 480x854 pixels display. Nokia stuck to its display size as provided in Lumia520/525 smartphone. Though the form factor and overall look of the phone is totally different from Lumia 520/525. Lumia 530 ditches the curved back design of this series, Its having block-like device which results slighty solid looking feel to user. Overall Lumia 530 looks better than other smartphone of this series.

Processor and Graphics:

Nokia Lumia 530 is powered by quad-core Snapdragon SoC, which improves its perfomance slightly better. The phone overall performance is good with in this budget. The graphics used in this phone is Adreno3 302 which runs at 400MHz.

Microsoft/Nokia is now trying to capture market of low budget Smartphone with this Lumia 530 series. A months before Microsoft CEO Nadella has said that company's main focus is to capture the Smartphone market. He also announces the discontinuation of Nokia X series Android Phones.