If you keep the brightness at max, stream hours of video and play games throughout the day, you'll certainly need to give it a topup in the afternoon. With careful use, you shouldn't struggle to get a day of use from the phone.Īs with any phone though, battery life really depends on how you use it. From full, it had dropped to 78 percent remaining after 2 hours of video streaming, which is above average. There's a 2,200 mAh battery inside, which put up a decent fight in my tests. If photography is of paramount importance, you'll need to splash more cash on a better phone, but for quick snaps in good light, the 735 is fine. The auto white balance isn't great, but using Nokia's Lumia Camera app, you can take manual control of it. It has sufficient quality to capture some snaps for Facebook, although not really much more. The quality isn't brilliant though - particularly not in this dimly lit room, so I recommend only going for selfies when you're out basking in the sun in a park. The front-facing camera's wide-angle lens does cram a lot into the scene, so you won't need to squash in quite as much to fit all your friends in the shot. Nokia Lumia 735 front-facing camera test (click to see full size) Andrew Hoyle/CNET The 735 is evidently aimed at selfie lovers, with a wide-angle 24mm lens that will allow you cram more of your friends into the shot. The back of the phone features a 6.7-megapixel camera, while on the front is an impressive 5-megapixel effort. For everyday tasks, there's plenty of power, but this isn't a phone for gaming or video processing. It doesn't have much power to spare, however, as glossy racer Asphalt 8 played with low frame rates, resulting in quite unimpressive gameplay. Windows Phone 8.1 doesn't need a massive amount of juice to run smoothly, so navigation is swift. The phone is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, which is sufficient to keep things ticking over adequately. Here Drive, for example, provides turn-by-turn GPS satellite navigation, while Here Transit shows real-time departure times of local public transport. Although it’s a highly competent smartphone at a reasonable price, it isn’t good enough to eclipse the best budget Android handsets, such as the cheaper Motorola Moto G 4G.Nokia does have a whole host of its own software available in the store that's free and genuinely useful. In the end, though, it’s the price that proves the Lumia 735’s undoing. It’s also nice to see 4G connectivity and support for wireless charging, features that are all too often overlooked from low-cost smartphones. The adoption of Cortana and the Denim update proves that the OS is moving forward, and if you buy a Windows Phone 8.1 such as this today, you should get Windows 10 to play with in the summer – these are exciting times for Microsoft-powered mobile devices. Windows Phone remains as easy to get to grips with as ever, and despite our reservations over the stutter of certain animations, it’s more responsive than many cheap Android phones. Nokia Lumia 735 review: verdictĭespite this, there’s plenty to like about the Lumia 735. While playing a 720p video through the stock video player with the phone in flight mode, battery capacity fell at a rate of 9.1% per hour, and it fell at 5.3% per hour while streaming a podcast from SoundCloud over 4G with the screen off. This phone will get you through a day of moderate use, but you’ll need to charge it at the end of each day, and our battery benchmarks paint a similar picture. It isn’t restricted to the OS, either: in games – even casual titles such as Candy Crush Saga – we experienced judder.Īnd although acceptable, the battery life is far from fantastic. What’s more disappointing, however, is that unlike most other Windows Phone handsets we’ve tested previously, the Lumia 735 feels occasionally sluggish and stuttery, particularly on the transition animation back to the homepage. It finished the SunSpider test in a dreadful 1,510ms and gained a mere 8fps in the GFXBench T-Rex HD onscreen test. Nokia Lumia 735 review: performance, battery lifeĪs you might expect of a chip that’s now getting on a bit, the quad-core, 1.2GHz qualcomm Snapdragon 400 inside the Lumia 735 doesn’t produce the most stellar set of benchmark results. And elsewhere the selection of pre-installed apps is as good as ever, with the excellent Here+ maps and navigation software leading the way, followed closely by Microsoft’s mobile Office suite. All you need to do is long-press the search key in the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen and start talking. Still, Cortana is perfectly easy to fire-up.
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