Nokia Lumia 730 - an expensive and uninteresting device from the once famous brand

In 2014, the Microsoft brand acquired Nokia, and immediately announced that the latter was leaving the market, and all devices would henceforth be called Microsoft. Shortly before this, Nokia has already managed to put several new models on the market, in particular the Nokia Lumia 730 and 830. The fundamental difference between the models in the cameras and the size of the device.

Positioning

Due to the high competition in the market of mobile devices, manufacturers have to invent really interesting possibilities in their devices in order to interest the customer. Nokia has seriously miscalculated when it chose Windows as its operating system, but this is not the biggest mistake. The downside is that the brand has long been confident in its popularity and tried to leave due to this. As a result, the models copied one another, changed the size, the camera, but in fact it was approximately the same type of apparatus.And if at first the devices looked interesting due to the photo-capabilities and bright unusual design, then eventually they became boring. Lumia 730 is smartphone for selfie, which means having a good front camera. If in 2018 this is capable of attracting a client, then in 2014 it was necessary a little more to take the device. Yes, and the camera itself should really show excellent results. The model had no chips, which did not allow it to conquer the market. For more information about the device - in the review of the Nokia Lumia 730 Dual Sim.

Specifications

Characteristics of the Nokia Lumia 730 Dual Sim are quite modest even for its time. But it should be understood that, due to the peculiarities of the OS, the model should not have shown any high results, since there simply were no serious tasks for it.

On a note! Nokia Lumia 730 dual sim, unlike a number of previous devices, was released in two versions - with and without LTE. The first option was marked 735, but otherwise fully repeated 730 model.

Nokia Lumia 730

Appearance

By design, the device is more like the early models of the company. These are bright colors, rounded edges, plastic case. There are four colors available - green, orange, white and black.

On a note! Complete with each device you can find a spare dark panel, which, unlike the main one, is made in a matte version. Perhaps this is a tribute to those customers who often in reviews pointed out that the cover of glossy devices was too dim.

The cover in the model is removable, that is, you can change the battery in case of its failure. Also under the cover are slots for microSD and Sim. The Nokia Lumia 730 dual sim lid fits completely on the front panel with the board, it is a reliable and interesting solution, in addition, the lid is not too hard to remove. The quality of the material is at a high level, but over time the surface is overwritten, which is completely normal and is not a problem of the devices only from the Finnish brand.

Visually, the model looks nice, similar sensations arise from its use. The device fits well in the hand, does not slip. In the Nokia Lumia 730 for the first time it was decided to abandon a separate camera key. The rest of the arrangement of elements is quite predictable.

1. The power button and volume control are traditionally located on the right.
   
2. On the top there is a headset jack, on the bottom - MicroUSB.
   

   

3. The front panel, as before, is covered with glass and visually seems to be inserted into the main body. Above the screen - the camera, speaker light sensor and proximity. At the bottom of the screen are the exit buttons back, Win and Search. To make them appear, you need to hold your finger along the bottom border.
   

   

4. The back panel contains the camera, flash, speaker.
   

Screen

In Nokia Lumiya 730, the screen is made using OLED technology, which at the time was new and not very popular. Resolution typical for a diagonal of 4.7 inches - HD. Added layer for better screen behavior in the sunIt is called ClearBlack. In general, the screen turned out quite decent in color and viewing angles, but the downside is the points that are noticeable upon careful examination of the device. This does not interfere too much with work, but it can cause some discontent. The model also has automatic brightness controlBut due to the nature of Windows Phone, it has only three settings: low, medium, high. This does not allow the system to flexibly adapt to the lighting,and much more convenient to set the brightness manually.

Battery

Nokia Lumiya 730 Dual Sim has a battery capacity of 2200 mAh, which is quite a bit. The manufacturer promises about 25 days in idle mode, 22 hours of calls, 60 hours of songs, watching videos about 9 hours, surfing - 10 hours. Real tests show that in a sparing mode, the phone lasts about 2 two days, provided that the use of the Internet is minimal. If the device is used actively, then removing it from the morning from charging, in the evening you will need to return the device back. In general, the device can be described as a telephone for calls, but considering its price, this is not the most reasonable purchase.

Important! Full charge takes 2 hours. The difference of this model from older devices is the lack of wireless charging.

In work

The Nokia Lumia 730 has a small memory capacity of 8 gigabytes, of which only 4 gigabytes is available to the user. Saves the day support for memory cards and cloud storage. RAM is represented by 1 gigabyte, for the device of 2014 on Windows it is more than enough. Serious applications for the phone at that time was not created.

The processor of the model can hardly be called very powerful, four cores of 1.2 GHz each is a modest figure, but again, because of the OS, this device is not needed anymore. Model works fast enough, no hangs or poor response is noticeable. Snapdragon 400 installed in this device is also used in the older 830 and younger 630 models. The difference in performance between devices is not visible.

There is no standard for working in wireless networks, there is no LTE, but for those to whom it is important and important, there are 735 models on the market, which is equipped with support for work in these high-speed networks. There is an NFC chip, The main task of which is connecting to peripheral devices and fast data transfer.

In the model installed new windows firmware namely version 8.1There are no significant differences in it from the usual 8-ki. Among what appeared, the old errors were corrected, the display of the network type was added, a separate menu appeared when the curtain went down with notifications from applications, changes were made to the interface settings.

Camera

Lumia 730 and the older model 830 have the same camera sensors, but in the lower device it is hardware trimmed to 5 megapixel resolution.Because of this, the good camera itself began to shoot worse, and this can be explained by the fact that the manufacturer did not want to create competition for a more expensive device with its own model. The camera turned out to be quite mediocre, in the daytime the photos turn out to be quite good, but at night the quality is rapidly falling.

Important! The device has all the branded photos from Nokia, but some special interesting modes or functions cannot be found. It is strange that the device with the positioning "smartphone for selfie" does not even have such a simple utility as improving the face.

By itself, the front camera shoots well, but not so that because of it to buy a phone. Interest is built-in photo editor, but for models on Android, something similar can be downloaded separately. The video device shoots in FHD with 30 frames per second, the quality is not bad, there are no interesting chips.

Conclusion

Lumia 730 is an uninteresting, but expensive smartphone. Finding serious flaws in the device is difficult, since everything here is on an average level. The cost of the model was at the time of release 13 thousand rubles, and the LTE version is 14-15 thousand. For this money, it was possible to find much more advanced and interesting devices on Android, which was the reason for the unpopularity of the device in question.Buying this device is a waste of money, since the real price of the device should not exceed 9 thousand rubles. In this case, the point was to get the device.

Nokia Lumia 730