Saturday 18 January 2014

NOKIA LUMIA 525 FIRSTLOOK: old wine in fancy and costly bottle

NOKIA LUMIA 525 FIRST IMPRESSION


What's new




New phone in lumia series is launched by nokia, the all new nokia lumia 525. The sibling of nokia 525 i.e., nokia lumia 520 turned out to be a big hit for nokia and help them a lot to save their falling market globally. The phone had a decent 4 inch IPS display ,runs on windows 8, expandable memory and packed with other features and comes with great price, the only issue with lumia 520 is lack of app in windows app store and ram which is only 512, but 512 MB ram is enough to run WP 8 OS  without a hitch.
Here I want to tell you one thing that there is no difference between NOKIA LUMIA 525 and NOKIA LUMIA 520 except 2 or 3 which also not justify  the increment of around RS 2,500(US $ 40). In India you will get this phone with the price tag of RS 9,500/-.
   
what's the difference

The only difference between the nokia lumia 520 and 525 is the ram, as new lumia 525 comes with e 1GB RAM instead of the 512MB which you have in old lumia 520. The other difference is the back panel new  lumia 525 have a glossy finish instead of matte finish on the lumia 520. The new lumia will also feature the Lumia Black update . The 525 feels and looks exactly the same like its sibling lumia 520.
QUICK SPECS
Display - 4.00-inch

Processor - 1GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4

Front Camera - No

Resolution- 480x800 pixels

RAM - 1GB

OS- Windows Phone 8

Storage - 8GB, expandable up to 64 GB via microSD card and free cloud storage of 7GB

Rear Camera - 5-megapixel

Battery capacity - 1430mAh

Applications and features

Like all other nokia windows phone it supports many feature related to productivity, music, camera and other  day to day things like for productivity it comes with  OneNote, Wallet, Family Room, Kid's Corner etc ,the Business apps includes Adobe acrobat reader , Lync (Corporate IM),SkyDrive storage, Company Hub for enterprise applications,
And also comes with document editors which can read and edit files in formats like Word, Excel, PDF, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint. And for synchronization it comes pre loaded with ActiveSync, Windows companion app, Mac companion app, Nokia Photo Transfer for Mac and for gaming packed with DirectX 11, Touch UI, Xbox-Live Hub. For navigation it comes with apps like HERE Drive, HERE Maps, HERE Transit.



Photography apps and features:
Nokia lumia sports 5 MP Auto focus with two-stage capture key, digital zoom: 4 x, Sensor size: 1/4 inch , Main camera f-number/aperture: f/2.4  and comes with features like: Touch focus, panorama, Landscape orientation, Auto and manual exposure, Auto and manual white balance, Active toolbar, Full screen viewfinder, Geotagging, Automatic photo upload to web services, Full resolution photo and video upload and also comes with some Add-on apps  like  Nokia Smart Camera, Cinemagraph lens, Panorama lens, Bing vision. The video camera captures video at  720p (HD, 1280 x 720) @ 30 fps.


Music and entertainment:
Audio features: Album graphics display in Music player, Audio Streaming, Music Player, Cloud music offline playback, Media Player, Podcasts, Cloud music playback. Video streaming: YouTube browsing and video streaming, Progressive video download, Streaming from video services and internet, Nokia Video Upload apps. Internet Radio, FM Radio

.FINAL VERDICT
The new nokia lumia 525 is only and upgrade to lumia 520 with only major difference of 1gb ram  comes with lumia 525 and few add-ons which practically do not justify the increased price tag of lumia 525. Because lumia 520 needs upgrade not only with ram but also upgraded with features like flash, front facing camera and processor, and if not the processor  then flash and front camera must b include in new lumia 525. And according to me 1 GB ram would be more helpful with upgraded chipset and will have no effect in practical use wit old chipset. My verdict if you want to save your some money you can buy  lumia 520 and if want to pay more for old wine in fancy bottle then go for lumia 525. At last choice is yours. 

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