Microsoft smartphone Lumia 435: overview, features and reviews

Lumia 435 — an interesting budget model. It is the first device in the line of 400's aimed at a target audience which differs from most models of the brand. If you need a smartphone for a child, a fallback or you make the switch from conventional push-button phone to your first smartphone — you are well suited Lumia 435. The price and features clearly indicate that the purpose of the model.

Appearance

If the expensive smartphones, the company often prefers the unbeaten classic colors — red and white, for budget devices are still popular bright acid colors.

Lumia 435 is shaped like Asha 503 — the same strict rectangular shape. The back cover is made of strong, scratch-resistant matte polycarbonate can be easily removed/put on. This not only has aesthetic value (having bought a few colors, you can change them at least every day) and practical — if the back side will lose an attractive appearance, it is easily replaced without the expense of a professional repair and a long search of spare parts.

Microsoft Lumia 435 — this is a very compact model that fits comfortably in any hand. The rear portion is smoothly rounded, and the weight of the smartphone is well-distributed to achieve a perfect balance. The exact dimensions of the model: 11. 8x6. 5x1,2 cm, weight: 134 g

The location of the connectors is standard: at the top end-headphone Jack at the bottom — microUSB. Physical buttons located on the right — volume button and unlock button. Both are easily distinguishable and pleasant at touch. The left side is completely empty.

To replace and install the microSD and micro SIM cards will have to get the battery.

Display

Display by today's standards is small but pretty standard for budget devices – a diagonal of only 4 inches, resolution of 480 by 800 pixels (density of 233 pixels per inch). Perhaps this is one of the weaknesses of the model. The screen is not protected by a glass Gorilla glass or oleophobic coating. This means that scratches will appear on it quickly and fingerprints (and cheeks) will be very noticeable. So I'll have to stock up on cleansing wipes for the equipment.

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Low resolution is particularly striking when reading the text and complicates viewing web pages.

Bright sunlight is also a problem for Microsoft Lumia 435. Black much loses its sharpness, so be prepared for the fact that you have to cover the display with your hand (especially when using WhatsApp).

But the smartphone has the option, which is usually missing in inexpensive models — the auto-brightness of the screen. It is not very sensitive, but still saves the user from having to frequently change its parameters manually.

The Expected angles of the screen are bad, the lighting and the color saturation decreases significantly if you look at it from different angles. Auto-brightness is slightly improving, but still not able to fully address this shortcoming.

But the screen sensor is very sensitive and quickly responds to touch.

Features Lumia 435

The smartphone dual-core Snapdragon 200 running at 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM. This allows him to handle most of the tasks required for the average user, on which it is focused.

Internal memory 8 GB (do not forget that about half occupied by system files), it will increase possible with the help of microSD cards up to 128 GB.

The Battery is quite modest, its capacity of 1560 mA.

The smartphone 2 cameras, but many of them expected:

• Primary-2 MP with flash missing. On a small screen the images may seem acceptable quality, but they increase on the device with large display low the quality is very evident. The same applies to video taken with it;
• Front VGA — equivalent to 0.3 Megapixels. Only useful for video chat in Skype, and the result is rather mediocre.

Social

Since the Lumia 435 is not intended to be a universal mobile device, its main function, namely the provision to owner of different types of communication should be implemented as best as possible. And here, the manufacturer has not deceived expectations.

The call Quality on the height of the speaker and microphone work perfectly, and therefore both sides of the conversation perfectly audible.

Brand app People Hub allows you to create a “smart” contact list and Supplement it with information taken from the profiles of your friends in social networks.

Of Course, the smartphone supports the new standard Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, and GPS.

And Lumia 435 Dual Sim — an exact copy of model 435 but with 2 microSIM-cards — allows you to use two tariff plans or personal and corporate cards at the same time.

Interface

Initially, the Lumia 435 comes with a pre-installed Windows Phone 8.1, but it is one of the first to hit the list of devices officially supporting Windows 10.

Of Course, the modest amount of apps – typical of the lack of both versions of the operating system, but Microsoft is rapidly increasing their number. In addition, they have a dignity that you deserveof special mention.

For Example, customers are provided with 30 GB free space in OneDrive cloud storage, file sharing which is very fast and comfortable.

With convenient and well-established Microsoft Office applications this greatly facilitates the user's life — because today, we often begin with a document on one computer, then transfer it to another, and with the help of mobile devices make revisions on the go.

Because the price category, the Lumia 435 lets you use it as a smartphone for kids and Teens, playing music — this is not the last function in it. It should be noted that it copes rather successfully, and with good headphones the volume level and bass allow you to enjoy the record in all its glory. So the Lumia 435 — worthy of replacing a separate music player.

Step into the future

Windows technologies from futuristic movies are available even in the budget smartphone. Voice assistant "cortana" - Microsoft's response to Siri from Apple or Google Now from Google — is developing quite quickly and can already perform many functions:

• Start the information search in the given request (however, to do this solely in the search engine Bing);
• Recognize and find;
• Transfer the smartphone to silent mode during meetings from the calendar;
• And even tell jokes.

But, unfortunately, is that cortana can only translate the phrase into Russian, but to use it as a language for communication with the user is not able to. Rumor has it that in 2016 this will be fixed, but the exact date is still unknown.

Money matters

How much would it cost Lumia 435? The price at the beginning of the sales (Feb 2015) was about 4.5 thousand rubles, the smartphone is a bit cheaper, you can find listings with the cost of a little less than 4 thousand RUB As it is quite popular and recently released model, it is easy to find in most electronics stores.

What do consumers think about Lumia 435?

Reviews of the smartphone, as well as the opinions of experts, most of them positive. Considering its price, it performs its functions perfectly well.

Attractive design combined with the unexpected reliability of the hull that is quite difficult to damage. Smartphone good performance, allowing you to easily solve most problems. Of course, weak processor makes itself known — if the old games like Angry Birds and Jetpack Joyride run perfectly, then Asphalt 8, Subway Surfers or Temple Run 2 begins to hang with the transition of the player to higher levels and accelerate the game.

The Battery is enough for a day of fairly active use of the smartphone. Of course, if you are going to play or watch movies much longer (which is not so convenient on such a small screen), the battery will sit much earlier.

To pull this point, you can go into power saving mode or use a Battery Saver app that shows where the battery.

What can you say about the camera the Lumia 435? Reviews predictable attribute it to the shortcomings. It is the quality of the pictures today few people are satisfied with even in the mobile device. But it is clear that it was one of the victims (along with a small screen), which had to bear for the sake of reducing the cost of the model.

Summing up

Both versions of this smartphone — with one SIM card or Lumia 435 Dual Sim — demonstrate good value for money “price   quality”. Yes, they have significant disadvantages – the screen, camera, weak processor. But we must not forget that these smartphones cost about 1/10 the price as iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6 or LG G4, and therefore measure them by the same parameters is impossible. The build quality is carefully tuned balance of the physical components and operating systems, which allows to perform most common tasks, many features are rarely found in such models, a very modest price — all this makes the Lumia 435 reliable and affordable "workhorse”.