It shines out of low segment.
Nokia’s Lumia 610 intends to introduce
Windows Phone OS to a number of users who concern about budget while seducing smartphone
buyers away from Android by its nice design and reasonable price.
Lumia 610 (119x62x12mm, 131.5g) owns
eye-catching design showing off the quality. It includes removable rubber back
lid and the rest is made of glossy-grey and black plastic. Following the
luxury-theme are Lumia 610’s touch-sensitive buttons (back, home and search)
right below the 3.7inch TFT capacitive touchscreen.
Nokia
Lumia 610
Screen
This monitor owns 480x800pixel resolution
of standard Windows Phone OS, as well as 252ppi density displaying pictures and
texts, webs and videos in detail. Unfortunately, Nokia’s ClearBlack technology
doesn’t appear, which means Lumia is less sensitive to lighting than other
models in Lumia series, thus it is easily reflected.
Screen
Performance
It’s an upside that Lumia 610 doesn’t lack
performance thanks to Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset having ARM Cortex-A5 CPU
(800MHz) and Andreno 200 GPU. Everything isn’t slow when running apps and
navigating the OS which, in this case, is a Windows Phone 7.5’s simplified
version (Mango). It allows Windows Phone 7.5 to operate on a device with 800MHz
CPU and 256MB of RAM, a step backwards from Mango’s necessary requirement (1GHz
processor and 512MB of RAM). However, this is the problem – only 256MB of RAM
means that specific apps, such as Skype and Angry Birds, won’t work
appropriately on this smartphone so they can’t be downloadable from Windows
Phone Marketplace.
Conclusion
Nokia’s Lumia 610 costs $384 and it
competes directly with some power full Androids such as Huawei Honor U8860 ($419)
and Samsung Galaxy Ace ($349). Otherwise, Windows Phone lovers can choose Nokia
Lumia 710 (for $465) which give them full access to all apps in Windows Phone
Marketplace and it is powered by single-core 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU.
Overall, Lumia 610 is comprehensively good
for those whose budget is under $407 because it provides another good option for
people looking for something aside from Android stuff.
