The Nokia Lumia 930 is the first reasonably compact flagship smartphone with Windows Phone 8.1, which is to go with its high-resolution full HD display and a high-end SoC from Qualcomm to catch customers. Whether the new top of the line adopted by Microsoft Group of Nokia devices can satisfy the test, we tell you now.
Previously on Nokia only a true high-end smartphone was to be had. However, the Nokia Lumia 1520 with its huge 6-inch display and not just more of a compact design phablet, so that above the 4.7-inch Lumia 925 so far gaped a large gap in Nokia’s range. Now it fills this space with the Lumia 930, which is to offer at first glance everything the heart desires of the premium customers.
Hardware
A five-inch OLED panel with full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, two gigabytes of RAM, 32 GB of flash memory and a Pure View camera with Zeiss optics and 20.7-megapixel resolution are the cornerstones of high- end amenities at the Nokia Lumia 930 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with its four 2.2 gigahertz cores course helps that the device should feel like a real top model in every situation.
Although it is not quite so on the latest technology, as currently equip most Android manufacturer with their devices already with the newer Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 and 805 Snapdragon SoCs from, but basically the computing power should always be sufficient, partly because Windows Phone traditionally very economical deal with the hardware. LTE after cat.4, NFC and wireless charging are also integrated and provide a perfect total package. A unique feature is probably the ability to record video in surround sound, because the Lumia 930 has four high-end microphones on board.
Memory
The two gigabytes of memory of the Lumia 930 should be quite sufficient for the time being, Microsoft has its Windows Phone 8.1 but primarily designed for efficient operation. The built-in Lumia 930 32 gigabytes of internal memory appear lush at first glance, but you have to remember that no expansion using microSD card is possible here. There are nearly 25 GB of internal memory for the user at leisure, so you have to make some sacrifices.
Because the memory can not be expanded, you have to economize something possibly, if one uses the most powerful camera regularly and may even want to put music and video content in larger quantities on the smartphone. Basically, the internal memory should be sufficient for most users, of course, but just a device with photos as a focus as the Lumia 930, a MicroSD card slot should be available in my opinion already.
Design
Rectangular, practical, good – could have so Nokia’s design philosophy when Lumia 930 gelatin. The device adopted from the rounded design of the former flagships from Finland. Instead, it relies on a look with an aluminum frame, which has taken the form of a wide, flat band and is designed perfectly smooth. The aluminum strip is at the top and bottom of each interrupted by MicroUSB and headphone jack and is otherwise fully.
The use of aluminum gives of course a sense of value, but Nokia has decided in favor of the possibility of wireless charging and for better reception, not to customize the back also made of metal. Instead, comes as its predecessor Lumia 925 a back cover made of high-quality polycarbonate traditional for Nokia devices – ie plastic – are used. This creates the opportunity to offer the device in different colors, some of which are kept extremely garish.
So there is the Nokia Lumia 930 in addition to the more sedate versions in white and black as well as in our test device in neon green and neon orange, what you have to get used perhaps in such a high-end device only. Ultimately, however, the phone acts despite the plastic cover in a very bright color of highest quality and bends, nor can push in the back. Because all areas, apart from the display of course, are kept matt, fingerprints unheard remain in Lumia 930.
Top quality is the front, because this has made a complete covering to the sides slightly curved, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and therefore is an important design element of the more expensive models from Nokia’s smartphone portfolio. The surface feels great and is provided with a coating oliophobic, so less fingerprints are accepted. The rounded corners ensure that the wiping gestures are liquid run without you stick with your fingers on the edges of the display.
The attached at the sides’ buttons are easily accessible, properly placed and jiggle only slightly. It is like the other high-end smartphones from Nokia and now just Microsft a dedicated camera button, so that the phone can be used for photographs at any time. The button has two stages, so that you can easily push him to focus and can completely by pressing to trigger. This all works very well and lacks corresponding keys at other smartphones painful, but also their manufacturers pride themselves often with the supposedly superior photographic functions, without, however, take into account the great advantage in terms of ergonomics, the can so bring a simple button with it.
While the Lumia 930 at all times in the hand and one of the representatives of the compact 5-inch Class, the device with a good 10 millimeters is anything but thin. This alone is far from being a disadvantage, but a large hooks there – the weight. If you thought that the Nokia Lumia 920 would already have been hard at 162 grams, the surprised Lumia 930 with its 167 grams another five grams heavier weight. For some customers this may be too difficult, I personally did not mind when using the new Lumia flagship however. One must, however, make clear that the Lumia 930 with a smaller screen and smaller battery still a whole lot weighs more than about a LG G3.
Display
The Nokia Lumia 930 screen is an OLED panel that. using the Full HD resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels at a diagonal of five inches The Panel should therefore provide a virtually infinite contrast, which in practice is of course also the case finally shine only the pixels that are really needed. Nokia said it several times that it is to concern the brightest display that has ever been built on a Lumia smartphone. In our testing, however we detect only a luminance of 280 candelas, which is a rather disappointing value. The resulting impression is misleading, however, because in practice it quickly becomes apparent that quite a bit is on Nokia’s allegations turn.
The reason for this is simple. In normal operation, ie in closed rooms and in normal lighting the display is always sufficiently bright and easy to read, even from the sides. Only outdoor shows then, as highly luminous, the display can actually be. For then turn off auto brightness adjustment the brightness to the maximum and, together with a dynamic color matching to ensure that the display contents should be as easy to read outdoors. In these situations, the brightness should be significantly higher than in normal operation, but this is very difficult to measure for us.
As for the color display, the panel is definitely one of the better, although there are some problems. Our test units are areas of the screen that should be solid black, on closer inspection, not quite black, but slightly brownish. While this falls on only when you are traveling in the dark, then be awful but something. It is interesting that the panel in the upper right area somewhat unevenly lit, although I know of LCDs from other devices, but have not experienced in a AMOLED or OLED panel so. My guess would be in terms of color and slightly uneven brightness problems that we have here is a faulty calibration of the display, which theoretically can be re-adjust via software.
Unfortunately, the Nokia Lumia 930 lacks a feature that has been praised by many customers as the biggest advantage of Nokia’s recent devices with OLED panel. The so-called Glance screen, which in this country is called “views”, enabling previously to display the time and some information about battery level, and new notifications as soon as you pulled the phone out of his pocket and the brightness sensor so registered. Only the needed pixels were used, so that one could consider energy saving time and possibly incoming messages, without having to bring the unit out of standby mode.Because the display when 930 will be without the intermediate storage necessary for the Glance screen supposedly, you have here unfortunately on this great feature refrain – damn shame.
Camera
The Nokia Lumia 930 has even more powerful Pure View camera with around 20 megapixels resolution. This provides as actually almost traditionally at the Nokia smartphones of the upper class rather ordinary photos, which is due to a large sensor and the composite of six lenses and for the Lumia 930 once again revised Zeiss optics among others. With the built-in optical image stabilizer stuttering can be effectively minimized and you can pretty well take full HD videos or photos in the steady running.
The Nokia Camera app offers the familiar, quite lush functionality while despite many features remained quite simple operation, which has a variety of settings. The user can easily access ISO, white balance, and the like, and adjust the settings as needed. Even in automatic mode, the Nokia Lumia 930 is due to its good software able in most cases to shoot decent photos without manual adjustments.
Especially in low light conditions to the Lumia 930 better images than many of its competitors, which the Finns have not even necessarily wrong. The images are usually well lit, but it is to remember that Nokia with very aggressive software tries like many other manufacturers, lighten dark pictures, so that may quickly occur a bit exaggerated looking noise. Overall, the photos but also in low light damn good, including the Image Stabilizer contributes decisively.
Absolutely commendable – I know I’m repeating myself – is the integration of a separate shutter button for the camera on the housing. With this simple supplement the operation of the camera is made easier by a mile, because you do not torture yourself with onscreen buttons or repurposed volume keys. Thanks to a two-stage implementation of the timer can be equally used to focus and shoot. Especially in situations where you only have one hand available or wants to shoot pictures in unusual positions, nothing beats a separate release button – My opinion.
Sound
The Lumia 930 just has a single mono speaker on the back, which is quickly covered as with other smartphone models times by hand. The sound is okay, but is not necessarily better than average, or loud, but just solid. Miracles can not be expected here God knows, but the Speaker does just what it should. With specially adapted ringtones it can also be extremely loud and it does not come to the breaking of tones. Headphones Nokia does not put here at unfortunately. It is also interesting that the Lumia 930 has four high-end microphones that allow shots even in extremely noisy environments, such as at concerts. It should even be included in “surround sound” possible because the rear-facing microphones are reduced in recording volume when filming, so only the things that are happening in front of the camera, be taken with full volume.
Performance
In terms of performance, the Nokia Lumia 930 does of course not to hide from the competition, since it offers with its Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core SoC, which is clocked at 2.2 GHz and has a Adreno 330 graphics unit, plenty of computing power. While the CPU is no longer the Latest – now finally are other flagships with the newer Snapdragon 801 and soon reinforced also equipped Snapdragon 805 – but the chip still has masses of power, that seems almost exaggerated running Windows Phone 8.1.Because Microsoft’s mobile operating system works quite economical, and hits the surface easily in any situation.
In benchmarks with the Lumia 930 is an achieved solid result, because in AnTuTu, for example, 27,000 points measured, being here to remember well that it is a non-optimized version of the software. In other tests, the device achieved good values as expected. In games, there were no problems with us, so that the Lumia 930, all tested titles such as Asphalt 8: Airborne is without stuttering and the like. Switching between apps and dealing with various applications goes on the new Lumia flagship as expected without problems, so that we could not detect any disturbing delays basically.
One complaint, there is in terms of performance, however: the heat. The Snapdragon 800 is a high-end SoC under heavy load, correspondingly warm. This is the Lumia 930 at lasting gaming sessions was uncomfortable sometimes, especially at high ambient temperatures. Especially the region in the lower part of the back and the aluminum frame can be very warm, the latter probably also acts as a kind of radiator to dissipate the waste heat of the processor evenly and fairly effectively to the outside. This makes the phone but also cools very quickly again, if it is not charged longer. Power so there are plenty, including some reserves, but this comes at a price in the form of a high heat development.
Battery life
of the Lumia 930 battery with 2420mAh, despite the very high weight surprisingly “small”. Actually it complies with its capacity quite the level that is common with other devices using the Snapdragon 800, but because of the high-end chip at full capacity just correspondingly requires a lot of energy, the battery life can at massive use of games and other battery-eaters ever turn out surprisingly short. While gambling around four hours of battery life in continuous operation should not be a problem while you should come in six to seven hours when browsing via Wi-Fi and the use of streaming video at full screen brightness during continuous loop.
In everyday life, this results in fairly satisfactory running times, so you should actually come without problems throughout the day. This means that one gets by quite switched on for about four hours display, automatic brightness control and the usual duties as a few phone calls, surfing the Web, some photos and short Zock sessions 14 hours without power supply and thus through the day. The night should still survive easily, but usually had the Nokia Lumia 930 during our tests after about 1.5 days into an electrical outlet. Who sparse handle it, should sometimes get along two days without power supply – an ultra power-saving mode, there are of course not, even if Windows Phone at a certain battery level helps to conserve electricity storage for the purpose of life extension.
Software
to software there is the Nokia Lumia 930 to say very little, because here comes other than Android in terms of interface design hardly changing Windows Phone 8.1 is used. Who has got used to the live tiles of the surface, can be well understood with the Microsoft operating system in general, only the still messy setting menu always causes confusion. On a positive note are the improvements made by Microsoft in terms of functionality and design, because now there is finally a kind among other things Notification Center, which indicates not only informed, but also makes available Quick Settings. By being able to prove the tiles of the Start screen with an individually chosen background, the latest version of the operating system can now something better adapt to their own needs.
Nokia delivers as usual with a range of proprietary apps, including the next Nokia camera app also some other camera-related tools. These are different from the card services division but rather the HERE-game, even though they offer interesting possibilities, of course. The Card Services HERE and HERE Drive + Maps are an absolute killer feature in all Nokia smartphones for me with their offline maps and the ability to Offine navigation inclusive language. If you travel abroad or just simply bad reception (or again by one of the damned German network operators to “less than 1 percent of the maximum speed) throttled like it can not find its way – a not to be underestimated feature.
Conclusion
The Nokia Lumia 930 is the logical and consistent development of the last Nokia flagships and shows once again why the hardware specialists from Finland are capable of. Once more you absolutely deliver a solid piece of smartphone that was also still packed in a quite attractive design. The hardware can keep up with the upper class of Android smartphones finally, although this may not be necessary with Windows Phone. Sometimes, therefore, the fast quad core acts here a bit too large, but also provides security for the future.
The lack of microSD card slot, the very high weight, the mediocre battery life and the difficulties encountered in my test device problems with the display detract from the overall very positive impression of something. The fairly extensive internal memory, which once again very good Pure View camera and the compact design and the practical wireless charging on the other hand are plus points that should get 930 quickly appreciate the buyers of the Lumia.
Nokia Lumia 930 review - The new flagship Windows Phone 8.1
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