BUILD 2014: Nokia introduces the Lumia 930 and 630/635
On stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Microsoft has opened very well its BUILD 2014 conference for developers, with new features across the board for both Windows and for Windows Phone in its most traditional form. But the company of Satya Nadella was not alone: even Nokia was the game, with those who will most likely be the last appliances of independence.
The agreement of sale to Microsoft’s Devices division is expected to close in the course of just this April. The Nokia Lumia 930 and 630/635 inaugurate the new generation of smartphones with Windows Phone 8.1.
The Nokia Lumia 930 is positioned at the high-end and is very close relative of the Icon presented exclusively to Verizon in February. The characteristics are identical: aluminum shell, display from 5″ to 1080p resolution with Gorilla Glass and Glass 3 PureView 20-megapixel rear camera with Zeiss lenses and optical stabilization, video recording is at 1080p, assisted by 4 microphones to capture better audio quality. Sensor front instead of 1.2 megapixels.
Inside features a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC 800 quad-core 2.2 GHz with Adreno 330 graphics chip and 2 GB of RAM space internal storage amounts to 32 GB, unfortunately not expandable. Partially offsetting the intervening 7 GB offered by Microsoft on OneDrive, did not miss LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC. The delicate task of giving sufficient autonomy to 930 entrusted to a lithium-ion battery 2420 mAh.
The smartphone will be available starting in June, with a price of $ 599, in 4 different colors: black, white, green and orange.
The Lumia 630 and 635 are placed instead in the lower-middle market. Polycarbonate shell, matte and glossy for the 630 to the 635, both have the same display 4.5″ with a resolution of 480×800, which also incorporates the three soft buttons Back / Start / Search supported by Windows Phone 8.1. SoC is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core 1.2 GHz processor, supported by 512MB of RAM, but a few well-exploited by Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Sola 5 megapixel rear camera with 720p recording, while the storage amounts to 8 GB, here expandable via microSD for a further 64.
Missing NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 instead this SensorCore flanked by technology, mainly used for applications dedicated to fitness through the ability to detect steps taken, kilometers traveled and calories burned. The main difference between the two devices is connectivity: the Lumia 630 stops at HSPA but will have a dual-SIM version; single card for the Nokia 635 but includes support LTE.
Four shades provided by the shell, black, white, yellow and orange. The first 630 will arrive in May, with an MSRP of $ 159, which becomes 169 if you point to the dual-SIM. July will instead trade route to Nokia 635, quoted at $ 189. The new lineup then starts to come together, keeping in any case still interesting current models, which will all be updated to Windows Phone 8.1 firmware with Nokia Cyan, dedicated to photography.
The update will also give free access to all of the Plus version HERE Drive, hitherto reserved only for Nokia devices of high and medium-high. Both the Nokia Lumia 520 that products such as the HTC 8X will have the maps on a global scale, in contrast to the restriction of one nation under the current recording basic version of HERE Drive. A growing number of benefits, which will hopefully be maintained and even improved further once the handover with Microsoft.
