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Microsoft Brings Nokia Lumia 530, Lumia 530 Dual SIM Budget Smartphones

Microsoft has released its two Lumia series smartphone in budget range, dubbed Lumia 530 and Lumia 530 Dual SIM. Both are priced at EUR 85 (Approx Rs. 6,900). Devices will be reached in select markets. The noticeable thing in the devices is its name. Both smartphones are branded with Nokia instead of Microsoft. Company has added more colors like bright Orange, bright Green, dark Grey, and White to make its device colorful. They will also be available with changeable back covers.

Lumia 530 and Lumia 530 dual SIM, both have Windows Phone 8.1 platform support to give best user experience. Both have Lumia Cyan update and support firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates for enhancing the experience. Both share same specifications except the SIM support. As the name suggests, Lumia 530 supports single SIM while Lumia 530 Dual SIM comes with dual SIM support.

Nokia Lumia 530 features 4-inch FWVGA LCD display and offers great screen output with 480x854 pixels. To power the device, it has 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor which is impressive to hold the device with fast performance. Though, its 512MB of RAM disappoints along with the high processor, but sufficient to widen the experience.

On the other side, 5-megapixel fixed focus rear camera with digital camera add-ons such as Bing vision, Nokia Camera, and Nokia Glam Me boost the picture quality with Carl Zeiss lens. Its 4GB of inbuilt storage is coupled in device along with expandable storage of upto 128GB via microSD card slot. It comes with 15GB free OneDrive cloud storage space also. To deliver up to 10 hours of talk time and up to 528 hours of standby time, there is a 1430mAh battery. The smartphone is equipped with GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth (4.0), GPS and Micro-USB connectivity features. Both handsets support micro SIMs.