Lumia 530

Microsoft has announced a new entry level Lumia device called the Lumia 530. It will come with Windows Phone 8.1 out of the box. Microsoft announced that the Lumia 530 will be out globally in August. It is the successor to the Lumia 520, which has become the best selling Windows Phone device.

 

Photo courtesy @evleaks

Microsoft released this video to announce the new Lumia device which is being marketed as an affordable smartphone that is capable of competing with the likes of the Moto G.

 

The Lumia 530 will have support a 128GB SD card to compensate for the 4GB of internal storage it comes with. This is what the phone looks like on paper;

Processor

• Processor type: Quad-core 1.2GHz 
• Processor name: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 200 

Display

• Display size: 4 ''
• Display technology: LCD 
• Display resolution: FWVGA (854 x 480) 
• Touch screen technology: Capacitive Multipoint-Touch 

Memory

• RAM: 512 MB 
• Mass memory: 4 GB 
• Maximum memory card size: 128 GB 
• Free cloud storage: 15 GB

Power management

• Maximum talk time (2G): 13.4 h
• Maximum talk time (3G): 10 h
• Maximum standby time: 22 days
• Maximum music playback time: 51 h

•  The official site - Nokia.com  
  
  

iPhone 6 Fix

As the September 15 release creeps ever closer, the iPhone 6's release has been hugely anticipated and with the announcement that there are going to be two versions, a 4.7 inch and a 5.5 inch there's really an iPhone for everyone if you ask me, the bigger phablet for people who like bigger screens and the smaller 4.7 inch for people like me who don't want a huge screen nor do we want a tiny one, the 4.7 inch is sort of in the sweet spot.

There have been photos of leaked sim card trays that hint at what possible colours the iPhone 6 will be available in, based off the colours of the trays, the phone may be available in Silver, Grey and Gold.

Apple's going to be using some serious build materials for this phone, they're using a sapphire crystal display which seemed indestructible to me! See for yourself, Marques Brownlee managed to get his hands on the front panel of the iPhone 6. Here's the video.

Finally, the iPhone 6 will be coming out with a battery between 1800 and 1900 mAh and the 5.5 inch version will be coming out with a battery between 2000 and 2500 mAh.

              

Windows Phone 8

So I've been all over the place in terms of mobile operating systems. Right from Symbian on the old Nokia's, to that Linux based Nokia N900 which I actually loved followed by BlackBerrys and ios and finally Android. But now I've started using a Nokia Lumia and I have to say that this is by far my favourite one yet. Now I've used all the above operating systems for seriously long periods of time and I've only been using this Lumia for a little over a week and despite the lagging app store (I've got all the apps I had on android on my Lumia so I'm a happy guy) I am absolutely loving Windows Mobile.

The UI is refreshingly different, everything is so simple and user friendly, you can customise exactly where you want each and every tile and even how big it is. Make apps you use often big and place them right next to your thumb for easy access. Everything is responsive and feels quick and snappy, the start screen is literally alive and constantly changing and updating its look based on your notifications from social networking sites and photos you take yourself. Everything is integrated and more often than not you can find everything you need from inside a single app without having to switch apps for example, the music and videos app gives you access to the Nokia music store, your phones radio and if you've downloaded the 8tracks app you can get to it from inside this one app. This holds true even for the camera app with the snapchat and instagram cameras located in the camera app for quick and easy access.

In conclusion i just have to say that Microsoft have really outdone themselves with this and with the update coming out the 24th of June its just going to get better and more robust. The lack of apps on the store isn't really that much of a problem cause you can just download a third party application and still get all the same functionality as on any other platform.

After using Windows Mobile, the other operating systems just seem lack luster to me and this whole thing was just my impression of the os and i know lots of you disagree with my opinion and that's fine, as for me i don't see myself moving back to ios or android anytime soon.