Last year Nokia The 52x and 62x managed to reach the customers through the Lumia series. But in recent times, the budget phone on Android platform has completely changed the market. Especially Xiaomi. Will Microsoft Lumia 532 be able to make place for itself in the dual SIM phone market? Let’s know.
Design
Microsoft Lumia 532 Dual SIM phone will not be known to its beauty. It looks weighty and is not attractive at all. In reality, another phone of this ASHA series is seen. We got a black model to review, but this phone was not sleek from anywhere. This phone is also available in white, green and orange colors. Its weight is 136 grams.
This is a budget phone, so it is meaningless to have high expectations. The upper part of the phone has a 3.5mm headset socket and the micro-USB port at the bottom. Power and volume buttons are on the right side and a camera is made in the back, which has no flash. And there is a place for the speaker. There is a front camera in the front part of the phone, which is given a place above the screen. In the style of Nokia, this phone has a logo of Microsoft, with the name of the company with text. The battery is quite small to see. On removing the battery, you can clearly see the space for two micro SIM cards and a micro SD card.
Specifications
Looking at the Lumia 532 dual sim phone, it seemed as if it is a many year old model. Perhaps the reason for this is the screen of the phone. 4 inch display and 480×800 pixels resolution, these specifications only say a lot about the phone screen. The quality of the screen is also not good. Colors are seen to be faded, the phone has brightness, but there is difficulty in using it when going directly in the sun.
The phone uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, which works four core of 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 and has Adreno 302 graphics integrated. The phone has 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. Like other Lumia phones, you can also use memory cards up to 128 GB.
The phone has Wi-Fi B/G/N, Bluetooth 4.0 and A-GPS available. And it also has FM radio. The battery capacity is 1560 mAh, which is very disappointing. There is nothing to excite the camera as well. The rear camera is 5 megapixels and the front camera is 0.3 megapixels. With rear camera you can record videos in 480 pixels. You get a headset and charger with a handset.
Software
Microsoft Lumia 532 Dual SIM comes with an update of Windows Phone 8.1. In the new operating system, the size of Cortana tile on homescreen is more earlier compared, but it does not work on choosing India in the location. However, choosing US English becomes a matter. In the new phone, you also get some in-house apps of work such as here Maps and Here Drive+. By the way, Bing Maps App is also preloaded in the phone. Lumia Camera is a great app but due to weak camera, fun becomes gritty. In the same way, apps like Lumia Cinemagraph, Lumia Selfie, Lumia Storyller and Lumia Creative Studio will not prove to be very useful. Mixradio app is the most preferred for us, the app has the best library of songs and you can prepare a playlist according to your own. But the sad thing is that cheap premium subscriptions are no longer available.
You can ignore many apps like Bing’s Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Money, News and Sport and can also be removed from the phone. Microsoft has given more importance to third-party apps. The phone had Blackberry Messenger, Facebook, Foodpanda, Gameloft Hub, Jabong, Paytm, Redbus, Star Sports, Truecaller and Twitter Preloaded. Some of these are useful and do not do anything other than eating. By the way, the most important thing is that now you get more apps on the platform of Windows phone than before. Especially the common apps that the customers had to be disappointed.
Performance
Due to weak hardware, this smartphone scored very few scores. The number of points that this phone got in Antu and WPBench Tests was also achieved by Nokia Lumia 630 dual SIM.
Many of our samples did not go on the video phone. Lumia 532, completely failed to play videos of 720 pixels. 480 pixels video files run, but through third party app. The voice in the speaker was loud but it was somewhat suppressed.
Despite being a fixed focus lens, the performance of the rear camera was not so bad. The photo taken in low light was good. It is clear that in terms of camera, Xiaomi is far better than Redmi 2 Lumia 532. However, the video was bad as expected and the front camera was of no use.
Its battery lasted for 9 hours 4 minutes in the video loop test, keeping in mind the size of the battery, this was a shocking result. It seems that Microsoft has made some changes in its software and hardware that costs the battery low and this is a good thing.
By the way, we had some problems in using this phone. On some occasions we found that the phone was automatically switched. And to turn it on, the battery had to be removed again and again. On not using the phone for some time, it was found that it started being updated by itself. This process took about 10 minutes, during which we could not use the phone.
Our decision
Microsoft in the budget segment cannot win just features and specifications. Therefore, the company has tried to further improve its hardware and Windows phone software experience. The company has also been successful to some extent, but there are many things in which Android is still far ahead. Lumia 532 Dual SIM does not have much benefits. If you believe in Value for Money, then show trust in Xiaomi Redmi 2 and Motorola Moto E (Gen 2).