The presence of the SIM slot reveals there's no access to the 2,mAh battery housed inside the Lumia , plus there's no SD slot to expand on the 32GB of internal storage. The left side of the Lumia is an uninterrupted slice of polycarbonate allowing you to marvel at the beautifully curved edge. On the bottom you have a microUSB port flanked by a couple of speaker grills and two exposed rivets, similar to the ones on the base of the Google Nexus 4 and down the sides of the Motorola Razr i.

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Place the Lumia face down and it becomes even more difficult to differentiate it from the Lumia , with the centralised 8MP camera lens, sliver plate surround and dual LED flash the only features on the back. The only clue that this is a different handset is the word Nokia in large text on the sliver plate, instead of Carl Ziess on the previous model, which has now been relegated to a smaller font next to the firm's name. The matte black finish on our review model completes the minimalist industrial design, with the Lumia is also available in grey, white, red and yellow which sport a glossy finish which we reckon looks a bit cheap.

As long as you can get over the size and weight of the Nokia Lumia - we did after a few days - you'll find it's a robust device which certainly feels premium in the hand, with possibly only the iPhone 5 feeling classier. Current page: Introduction.

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We'd describe the general performance of the Nokia Lumia as snappy, with little waiting around for the camera to take a picture - its certainly just as responsive as the majority of compacts that we've reviewed. By default the Nokia Lumia uses the Auto shooting mode.

Compared to a conventional compact camera, the Lumia is rather bereft of options. You can take a photo on the Nokia Lumia either by half-pressing the conventional shutter button to focus then full-pressing it to fire the shutter, or by simply tapping on the LCD screen, which quickly focuses and takes the photo with a single tap. The 8.

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Note that you can't take a burst of images on the Lumia , just a single-shot. The Nokia Lumia can shoot High Definition video clips at full p or p HD with stereo sound with the ability to change the white balance and Continuous Focus mode in the MP4 format at 30fps. Note that you can't take a still image during video recording. The small arrow icon in the top-left corner is for playing back your images. You can browse through your photos by flicking them from side-to-side, view them as thumbnails in the Camera Roll, by date or in albums, share, delete and favourite images, and rotate, crop and optimise each image.

The Nokia Lumia offers a rather restricted array of camera options by modern standards, but it is a responsive device with a well-implemented touch-screen interface. Now let's take a closer look at its image quality Contact Email Newsletter.