NOKIA LUMIA 525 REVIEW

Nokia launched its budget windows phone namely Lumia 525 in India which is priced @ 9,999/-. It is available is Black, White, Red, and Yellow.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is good. It has scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 9.9mm and weighs 124gms. It has 4 inch WVGA IPS LCD display of resolution 480 x 800 with 233 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is also pretty good. It runs on windows tile based User Interface. The brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) but lacks NFC .

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 5MP rear camera 1/4 inch sensor with autofocus which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are pretty good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty acceptable could have been bit better. It does HD 720p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 8 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty acceptable could have been bit better. It doesn't have a front facing camera. 

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE

It runs Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (OS) out of better upgradable to Windows phone 8.1. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (MSM8227) processor running a dual core 1.2 GHZ (Cortex-A15) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 305 (400MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run pretty well and there is no lag at most cases.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a removable Li-Ion 1430 mah battery. The battery life is good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 6:50H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:40H.

TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 14:30H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 420H(2G) / upto 410H(3G).

PROS

*Great build quality.

*Good display and viewing angle.

*Pretty Good Performance.

*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity.

*Good loudspeaker.

*Good battery life.

CONS

*App catalogue is still pretty less in comparison to android though 8.1 update has taken it in the right direction.
*No Led flash. 

*No NFC.
*No front camera. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.