Tôi không phải big fan của smartphone. Tôi thích stuff của tôi big và accessible, và playing with my thumbs (chơi với ngón tay cái) usually reserved for the bedroom (thường dành cho phòng ngủ). Nhưng rồi, tôi do love the Lumia line so very much that I decided to buy another, just for fun.
Tuy nhiên, có một big, important question ở đây. Bây giờ Lumia không còn branded as Nokia mà là Microsoft, chúng ta có nên expect (ky vọng) same kind of no-nonsense simplicity và high quality? Well, let's take a look, shall we.
Unboxing, initial impressions and whatnot (Mở hộp, ấn tượng ban đầu và那些)
Giá khoảng 150 USD cho regular users và 127 USD cho Prime users, Lumia 535 là smartphone relatively cheap (khá rẻ). Tuy nhiên, spec pretty decent (khá ổn). Điện thoại đến unlocked và hỗ trợ hai SIM (một micro và một nano, không như labeled).
Màn hình đo rather hefty five inches (khá to 5 inch), với resolution 540x960 pixels và 220 dpi pixel density. Lumia 535 powered by quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 processor và Ardeno 302 GPU, và bạn có 1 GB RAM. Internal 8GB storage, nhưng bạn có thể gắn micro-SD lên đến 128 GB. Bạn có thể record video 480p 30 FPS, và chụp stills 5MP resolution. Not bad, nhưng đây là one piece where you can feel the monetary savings (mảnh ghép bạn cảm thấy được sự tiết kiệm tiền).
Về software side, bạn có Windows Phone 8.1, và here it makes perfect sense (ở đây nó hoàn toàn hợp lý), cộng 15GB OneDrive storage. HERE Drive và Maps của Nokia cũng available, và khi coupled with HERE Transit, nó makes for the best navigation package around. For free. Last but not least, điện thoại của tôi đi kèm wall-socket charger nhưng no micro-SD cable, which is a shame, vì một cái được supplied với Lumia 520.
Physical design is cushty (thoải mái, vừa vặn). Điện thoại relatively big, nhưng không quite as thin as most competitors (khá mỏng như hầu hết đối thủ), which is an advantage, as you can actually maintain a reasonable grip (giữ chắc). Nó có simple and clean lines. Lovely.
Setting up (Thiết lập)
Initial configuration (cấu hình ban đầu) relatively simple and quick. Microsoft asks a whole bunch of questions, và rồi bạn cần setup hoặc reuse LIVE account. Nếu bạn làm cái sau và có settings và contacts saved to the cloud, chúng sẽ được synced to the phone. Bạn cũng có thể dùng Nokia suite cho Nokia models cũ để transfer contacts vào OneDrive storage và rồi have them synced to Lumia 535.
Nếu memory serves me well (nếu trí nhớ phục vụ tôi tốt), new Microsoft-branded Lumia này does asks a few questions more than Nokia did, và level of online integration and intrusiveness (xâm lấn) is a tad higher than before (cao hơn một chút), but it's nothing too radical, và still way below what you get on Android. Soon enough, you will be enjoying Lumia. And it's really fun to use. Clean, uncluttered, logical. Who would believe me saying that. Which only proves I am not against technology and trends but rather stupid and retarded manifestations thereof (biểu hiện ngu ngốc và chậm tiến của chúng).
HERE I am, will you lend me an angel (HERE tôi đây, bạn có cho tôi mượn thiên thần không)
Funny, no. Strong side của Nokia/Microsoft family là superior range (phạm vi vượt trội) của Nokia products. Well, used to be so. Bây giờ HERE Drive cũng available cho Android, monopoly này đã bị diluted (loãng). Which is a good thing for everyone.
Camera
Camera isn't that good. Nó works fine, nhưng bạn won't be making any stock photography any time soon. Không chỉ vì bạn không talented enough, cũng vì lens aren't built for art, not with the price tag you get here. Value for money means what it means. As an anectode (khẩu ngữ), bạn may find it interesting that my old E6 machine has superior optics for still shots, despite its age.
Depth of field, blah blah. Color quality is decent, nhưng details tend to get a little blurred here and there. I'm not doing any professional exeriment here, so relax. Overall, you won't be buying this phone for its camera, and if you need a good camera, then buy a good camera and not a smartphone.
Camera app itself is okay, I guess. Nó simple to use, it comes with a bunch of filters, none of which seem to make a great difference, as there's only that much you can do in software to cover up for physical limitations of the (relatively) cheap hardware. Oh, you also get a separate app for taking selfies, which now makes the whole concept utterly retarded (hoàn toàn ngu ngốc). But then, so are most people, which is fine.
Đồ khác (Other stuff)
Nếu bạn want to be yelled at (muốn bị hét), có Cortana. Có cũng very good battery saver, tells what you've been doing, và how you can preserve your battery life, although turning off Wireless, Mobile data and GPS are the three simplest, most efficient ways of doing it, no matter what the software tells you.
The default app set is pretty decent and varied without being crowded. You don't get too many spammy applications, which serve no purpose except to offer free, junky content, the way it often happens on OEM-branded hardware. Like comparing stock Android to Samsung. Same here. Microsoft has the luxury of offering its operating system pristine of violation (nguyên vẹn không vi phạm), so that it runs faster, more smoothly, và ultimately harvest some happy customers.
Bạn cũng có Xbox Video, nếu bạn muốn, nhưng bạn sẽ cần separate account cho đó. Và có a lot of good stuff available in the Store. It's nowhere near as powerful as Android, but it is pretty decent for people with a minimalistic sense of aesthetics and use, like myself. This is OCD heaven, and a practical, fun playground for smartphones.
On a closing note, just to be fully transparent, I do own both Nokia and Microsoft shares. Tuy nhiên, this has nothing to do with how I perceive and use these products. I've used Nokia long before I could spell the word share, và Windows 8 for desktops is a turd de la creme (bùn đâu). So there, transparency.
Kết luận
Microsoft Lumia 535 is a really nice bargain smartphone. Good value for money, good quality, và an operating system setup that balances usefulness with frugality (tiết kiệm). You also get a pretty decent application stack, which you can then grow as you see fit. Not as colorful as Android, but still quite useful.
Overall, this Lumia strengthens my affection for this brand. For people looking for a simple, sensible solution in the form of a smartphone, với a relatively low price và good specs, plus the ability to use an occasional app or three, Lumia offers the right mix of ingredients that is superior to most other competitors. Sure, you can't shake off the Windows feel, but it is not necessarily bad. Like Ubuntu in the distro space, hate is aplenty but not always justified. Sometimes, yes, but not here. Overall, 9/10. I like it. Bye bye now. Wait. Check my Ubuntu Phone review before you go go. Hi hi. Bye. For realz.
Cheers.