First Impressions of the Microsoft Lumia 532

Lumia 532

Final week, Microsoft announced the launch of the Lumia 532 in India. Another budget device, the Lumia 532 fares well on the specifications sail and costs less than Lumia 535, the other latest phone on the shelves right now.

The phone promises an uncompromised Windows Telephone experience with an excellent Lumia design and always dependable build quality to compete in a crowded marketplace of budget Android smartphones.

Blueprint

While closely resembling near Lumia models, the Lumia 532 borrows the dual shot design from the Nokia Asha series (and Lumia 620), which had a lot of fans, including me. The dual-shot casing wraps the matte finish back on the edges. While the build feels solid, the dual-shot pattern adds to the charm. It'due south compact and fits very nicely in the paw.

The book rocker button has a depression in the eye that makes information technology await like 2 buttons next to each other. It doesn't make a divergence to the ergonomics of the button, but the tactile feedback is simply right, maybe, for this reason. The photographic camera push is missing in the 532, and the capacitive hardware buttons at the bottom of the display are not backlit. While almost people button buttons instinctively on retention, information technology's sometimes a tad disorienting.

Lumia 532

Display

The Lumia 532 sports a 4-inch LCD screen, which might be a piffling pocket-sized for a lot of people at present. However, information technology makes for an splendid, meaty package for customers not looking for a larger phone or migrating from a feature telephone.

The screen resolution is an boilerplate 800 x 480 with 233 PPI, and the viewing angles aren't that great. Tilting the phone, specially when yous are playing a game or watching a game, changes the colors noticeably. Otherwise, the colors and text are sharp, and the touch experience is very smooth - always a worrying factor in budget smartphones. It is a fingerprint magnet though.

Kudos to Microsoft to have the phone back up Glance screen and double tap to wake. These ii signature Lumia features look trivial on newspaper but are very handy in everyday usage.

Lumia 532

Hardware

Powered by a 1.two GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 Quad-core processor, the Lumia 532 packs in 1GB of RAM – pretty expert internals for a smooth Windows Phone experience in a upkeep Lumia. Web browsing, navigation, and switching betwixt apps is polish, and the performance is pretty skilful for a budget smartphone.

While the phone doesn't heat up on gaming for quite a while, the graphics disappoint a piffling. There aren't frame skips on most occasions, merely graphic-intensive games like Asphalt eight lag a bit. Also, like most budget Lumias, the phone doesn't play total Hard disk drive videos. For an entry-level smartphone though, these are fair markdowns.

The Lumia 532 isn't a miser on internal storage, and 8GB is a decent offering and in that location is a micro SD slot for expansion. The phone packs in one,560mAh battery that is user replaceable. Yous tin can likewise buy different colored dorsum covers to personalize the device to your liking, including orange, blackness, white or greenish.

Lumia 532 sports a 5MP rear camera but misses on Tap to Focus and Zoom options due to no auto-focus, too as a flash. It gave a few decent shots in the hotel where the Microsoft presser was held, just I'll explore the camera more, in different outdoor and indoor spaces and lighting weather condition. On the front though, there is a VGA 0.iii MP photographic camera. While not amazing, nosotros are glad that it is in that location.

Software

The Lumia 532 runs on Windows Telephone 8.one Lumia Denim Update out of the box.

Lumia 532

Summary

The Lumia 532 phone delivers an exceptional Windows Phone experience housed in a nice, compact package that looks attractive and feels smashing in mitt. It cuts corners in the display, photographic camera wink, and here and there, but forms a nice, value-for-coin smartphone at ₹half dozen,499.

Do you like the Lumia 532, or would yous spend some more to buy the other Lumias in the market? Tell the states in the comments, and nosotros'll shortly become dorsum to you with a consummate, detailed review of the Lumia 532!