Nokia Lumia 930 – PCGuia

Beginning with the End:. Maybe this is the best Nokia / Microsoft / Windows Phone 8 smartphone I’ve ever had the privilege of using
The construction is near perfect quality. There is nothing that is out of place. The back panel is plastic with a matte finish, a bit rough and very pleasant to the touch. Available in four colors, but the user can not change at home.

The rear camera is 20 MP with PureView technology, which, despite having a very high resolution images automatically generates size smaller to send to social networks or to store without taking up much storage space on the device. Due to the high resolution images, this system also allows you to isolate details of the photos you take and save them as separate images of the original. The flash has two LED. On the back is also a speaker.

The chassis is made of aluminum. At the bottom is the MicroUSB input. On the right side are buttons to take pictures, connect and disconnect the device and increase or decrease the volume. At the top are the entries to the SIM (nano) card and headphones or headset.

At the front is the 5-inch screen that offers Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080). The secondary camera with 2 MP resolution and the three non-mechanical buttons that allow back, go directly to the home screen button to access the phone search engine.

Speaking of the screen, the Nokia / Microsoft 930 was built using AMOLED technology and is protected by glass Gorilla Glass 3
As I said, this smartphone is beautifully built and conveys an impression of solidity and quality.

Inside , the 930 features a Snapdragon SoC 800 that includes a quad-core Krait processor 400 running at a maximum speed of 2.2 GHz, the graphics are in charge of a GPU Adreno 330 The SoC also includes 2 GB of RAM. The flash memory to store data is 32 GB, which can not expand internally. The battery is 2420 mAh, which, according to Nokia, allows the 930 to work for 18 days on standby, or speak for 21 hours using 2G network and 17 hours on 3G networks. The battery can be charged by induction, ie without the need to connect your smartphone to a cable.

Range Nokia 930

The Nokia Lumia 930 connectivity includes, in addition to the USB 2.0 cable, the ability to connect to Wi-Fi 802.11 networks a / b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC pairing and connection to transfer content between devices.
The issue of inability to expand the memory can be tricky for those who need space, because the very operating system uses more than 2 GB of that memory, so 32GB is not well advertised 32, but 25 if you count the apps that come standard.

We can only speak of the operating system . The Nokia Lumia 930 is the first top-end smartphone with Windows Phone 8.1, which is an evolution of Windows Phone 8, which includes many new features such as sensor Wi-Fi which serves to automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks to operating system save on costs of mobile Internet, or the greatest possibilities for customizing the home screen. But unfortunately, the biggest news is that the wizard voice of Cortana was out for Portugal.
This officially, because you can use to move the store and the software language to American English. It was not necessary to be in Portuguese, but there should also be necessary to resort to these expedients in order to use the system.
Use Windows for some years now and I’m used to the idiosyncrasies of the system, the lack of some basic applications, despite Microsoft to be making a tremendous effort to bring to the platform. For all this I think that Windows Phone 8.1 has fallen short of what could have been. I do not mean by this that it is not light years beyond what was the original Windows 8, but it still lacks a long way to go if you want to catch the competition.

The Nokia preloaded the Lumia 930 with some applications like Vine, Facebook and Twitter, as well as the excellent applications of own production, as the Here Maps, which curiously is to duplicate the functionality of the Bing Maps … Anyway …
In terms of user experience is basically the same as Windows 8, but can now further customize the screens, for example putting an image underneath the tiles, which can now hold up to three columns on the screen. The screen is excellent.
Setup is simple. Do not forget that you must have a login in the Microsoft universe in order to access features such as backup of data and contacts, or access the app store.

The battery lasts enough, but far ‘s announced. The Lumia lasted about a day and a half with four email accounts to sync manually, such as social networks.

In conclusion, it is the best phone of this generation Windows Phone, very well built, full of interesting features. But lack appeal to the operating system and apps, many apps.