Nokia Lumia 510 is Old wine in New Packaging, banging new users to Windows Phone. Although Nokia is trying hard to set up connect of masses to Windows Phone 8, but unexpectedly nothing negotiate in price than modest hardware of Lumia 510. Undoubtedly Nokia Lumia 510 is the cheapest Microsoft-Powered smartphone by Nokia.
Without fully bridging gap to advanced WP8, Windows Phone 7.8 offers some pockets of joy- mostly visual – from latest OS. This could be fool-proof device desperately required by Nokia. It’s an entry-level package which is supposed to build new battle ground for Microsoft and Nokia on markets where accelerated smartphone growth is just about starting.
Key features:
· Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
· Quad-band 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
· 4.0″ 65K-color TFT capacitive touchscreen of WVGA resolution
· 5 megapixel autofocus camera, VGA video recording
· Windows Phone 7.8 OS
· Resizable tiles and some other WP8 features made available to the older OS version
· 800 MHz ARM Cortex-A5 CPU, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset, 256MB of RAM
· Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
· GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
· Digital compass
· 4GB of on-board storage, 7GB on SkyDrive
· Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
· Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
· FM Radio with RDS
· microUSB port
· Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR (with Bluetooth file transfers)
· Deep and coherent SNS integration throughout the connection
Main disadvantages:
· LCD display of questionable quality
· Some apps incompatible due to low RAM (Can’t run Skype, no HD video)
· No USB mass storage (Zune only file management and sync)
· No video calls and no front-facing camera either
· No memory card slot
· No native DivX/XviD support, videos have to be Zune-transcoded
· Disappointing audio quality
The Nokia Lumia 510 almost same as Lumia 610. 510 has a bigger, 4″ screen, which Nokia obviously considered important to the target audience. However, to stay within budget, the Lumia 510 had to take cuts elsewhere. The inbuilt storage was halved – it’s now a non-expandable 4GB. The camera has lost its LED flash too, but the limited storage is probably more troubling.
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