#Nokia lumia 720 windows#
If you’re looking for the latest apps and games, then that might be a problem, but for some people, that’s not the core priority.Īlthough Windows Phone has some lovely apps, at times we feel they just don’t perform as well as rivals on other platforms.
#Nokia lumia 720 android#
When it comes to apps, Windows Phone continues to make in-roads, but is still some way behind Android and iOS in terms of sheer numbers. We’re not going to cover all aspects of Windows Phone 8 here in this review, because there’s a great deal of uniformity between the operating system regardless of the device you’re using it on. You’ll spend a fair amount of time looking at the “resuming…” screen when moving between apps, but that’s not unique to Nokia. Of course you get Nokia’s excellent Here maps and Here Drive, both of which work really well, but also Nokia Music and a range of camera enhancements and exclusive apps.Īs we’ve said, the performance of the Lumia 720 isn’t the best you’ll get from Windows Phone 8, with this device not having the most powerful hardware, but it’ll get everything done.
That means there’s a more exciting out-of-the-box experience here than elsewhere, although that’s the same for all Lumia devices. So in addition to everything that Microsoft’s mobile platform offers, you’ve a whole suite of Nokia applications too. Nokia brings a lot of extras to Windows Phone 8, more so than its rivals.
#Nokia lumia 720 software#
Tied to the performance is the software experience. The Nokia Lumia 720 is wireless charging ready, in that the hardware is in place, but you need to add the charging cover (not available yet) to be able to use Qi standard chargers with it. There’s a 2000mAh battery and the endurance of this is good, we’ve managed to get through most of the day without battery life being an issue, but on busy days having to return to a charger for a top-up early evening. Internally there's 8GB of storage, but you can expand this via microSD, with up to 64GB supported. We also found that the phone has crashed several times during the time we've had it, most alarmingly at the very moment we finished a call, leaving us to looking at an unresponsive device with no idea whether the call had been terminated or not. It takes a little longer for apps to open, but then you're not paying the earth for it. That's not a hugely powerful specification, and that's reflected in the performance of the device. Sitting at the core of the Lumia 720 is a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, clocked at 1GHz, with 512MB of RAM. It is usable with gloves or fingernails, as this is a "super-sensitive" display, which means less faffing around taking off gloves just to flick through your emails.
Nokia details that the Lumia 720 boasts enhancements to make readability in sunlight better, but we didn't find it hugely different to other devices.
The display is topped with Gorilla Glass 2, which looks great, but is very glossy, meaning that outdoor viewing isn't the best, and when the sun comes out it's a little more difficult to make out the details on the display. The upside is that the contrast is good from Nokia's "ClearBlack" display and the colour reproduction is good. That means that you'll need to zoom more in websites to get those fine details and photos just don't pack in the detail that better displays offer, but sitting in the mid-range, that's to be expected to some degree.
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