MICROSOFT LUMIA 532 REVIEW


Microsoft launched most affordable windows phone namely Lumia 532 (Dual Sim) in India which is priced @ 6,499/-. It is available is Black, Orange, Green & White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has scratch resistant on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 11.6mm and weighs 136gms. It has 4 inch WVGA LCD display of resolution 480 x 800 with 233ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is quite good. It runs on windows tile based User Interface. The brightness of the screen is pretty good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. 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. Connectivities 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).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 5MP rear camera 1/4 inch sensor with autofocus which features such as Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is quite 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 480p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 6.5 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is quite 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 has a VGA front camera for selfe's which does 480p video recording clarity is average. 

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE
It runs Microsoft Windows phone 8.1(OS) out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8210) SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 302 (400MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is pretty good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no major lag at all.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 1560 Mah battery. The battery life is pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 6:10H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:20H.
TALKTIME : upto 14H(2G) / upto 12H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 430H(2G) / upto 410H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Quite good display and viewing angle.
*Pretty Good Performance.
*Quite good camera and video recording clarity.
*Good loudspeaker.
*Removable battery. 

CONS
*App catalogue is still quite less in comparison to android.
*No LED flash.
*Display could have slightly higher resolution like FWVGA.
*No 720p video recording only limited to 480p.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.5/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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