It's tough being the middle child. Stuck in the middle of the notoriously slow-to-changing lineup of Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 830 is a no-cost or price impulse fascinating performance to set the distance. It also suffers from a strange phenomenon pricing AT & T where the superior Lumia 1020 worth less money, which makes the 830 even more difficult to recommend.
Physical Properties, Call Quality, and Networking
The Lumia 830 is a long, rectangular phone usually made of cork, Nokia matte plastic, with a range of removable colored backs. The 8-megapixel camera with flash in a large circular cut-out back. 5.49 by 2.78 by 0.33 inches (HWD), with a 5-inch screen, it is only the upper limit being one-hand friendly.
The screen has a 1280-by-720 Nokia ClearBlack LCD, which in fact has great blacks, as well as the low reflectivity for great outdoor viewing.
Call quality is ideal. AT & T is behind the other carriers when it comes to HD Voice and Voice-over-LTE, but the Lumia 830 makes ordinary calls sound almost HD. The secret appears to be a well focused earpiece with many three times, do not bend too much, and cuts right through the noise in the background. The same goes for the speakerphone, it is strong and sharp. Shipping via microphone is also clear, and the phone is a decent if not spectacular job of background noise; pump too much motor or by construction noise microphone and tell pierce.
The Lumia 830 will have all the appropriate band LTE for AT & T, and worked fine on AT & T network in my testing. Although it has 802.11a / b / g / n, dual-band Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi performance is slow, the phone just reporting on Speedtest.net 5-8Mbps a connection where the iPhone 6 in the same location continuous got 30Mbps. Bluetooth, NFC, GPS and of course all present, and the GPS had a very fast and accurate lock on my test.
Battery life is disappointing, 3 hours, 44 minutes of continuous video streaming time with the screen at maximum brightness.