MICROSOFT LUMIA 550 REVIEW

Microsoft launched budget windows 10 smartphone namely Lumia 550 (Single Sim) in India which is priced @ 9,399/-. It is available is Black & 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 9.9mm and weighs 142gms. It has 4.7 inch HD LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 315ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is pretty 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 200GB. 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 4.1 support.

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 720p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 9 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 2 MP front camera for selfe's which does 480p video recording and the clarity is quite good. 

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE
It runs Microsoft Windows phone 10 (OS) out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 (MSM8909) SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.1 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A7 Architecture) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 304 (400MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is above average which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run just fine and there is a bit of lag at high graphic titles.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 2100 Mah battery. The battery life is quite good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 5H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6H.
TALKTIME : upto 14H(2G) / upto 12H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 480H(2G) / upto 450H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Pretty Good display and viewing angle.
*Above Average Performance.
*4G Support.
*Quite good camera and video recording clarity.
*Good loudspeaker.
*Removable battery with Quite good battery life. 

CONS
*App catalogue is still quite less in comparison to android.
*Performance could have been better.
*Battery life could have been little better.
*No Windows Continuum Support. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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