

Nokia Lumia 735 review: verdictĭespite this, there’s plenty to like about the Lumia 735. While playing a 720p video through the stock video player with the phone in flight mode, battery capacity fell at a rate of 9.1% per hour, and it fell at 5.3% per hour while streaming a podcast from SoundCloud over 4G with the screen off. This phone will get you through a day of moderate use, but you’ll need to charge it at the end of each day, and our battery benchmarks paint a similar picture.

It isn’t restricted to the OS, either: in games – even casual titles such as Candy Crush Saga – we experienced judder.Īnd although acceptable, the battery life is far from fantastic. What’s more disappointing, however, is that unlike most other Windows Phone handsets we’ve tested previously, the Lumia 735 feels occasionally sluggish and stuttery, particularly on the transition animation back to the homepage. It finished the SunSpider test in a dreadful 1,510ms and gained a mere 8fps in the GFXBench T-Rex HD onscreen test. Nokia Lumia 735 review: performance, battery lifeĪs you might expect of a chip that’s now getting on a bit, the quad-core, 1.2GHz qualcomm Snapdragon 400 inside the Lumia 735 doesn’t produce the most stellar set of benchmark results. And elsewhere the selection of pre-installed apps is as good as ever, with the excellent Here+ maps and navigation software leading the way, followed closely by Microsoft’s mobile Office suite. All you need to do is long-press the search key in the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen and start talking. Still, Cortana is perfectly easy to fire-up. Instead, you have an onscreen button bar for back, home and search that auto hides when you’re not using it and pops up when you swipe your finger from the bottom of the display. There are no longer any capacitive buttons below the screen. The back can be removed to expose a replaceable battery, and microSD and nano SIM slots. In fact, the design calls to mind the classic designs of early Nokia Windows Phones – this handset looks exactly like a slightly beefier Nokia Lumia 800.Īside from being slightly larger, though, and running the latest version of Windows Phone, it’s a very different device. It also looks and feels a lot cheaper than its pricier siblings, lacking the solid, metal-framed build of the high-end Lumia handsets. There’s a compact 4.7in screen up front, and the hardware under the hood is far from cutting-edge, with only a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 driving things along. Not surprisingly, a quick glance at the specifications of the Lumia 735 reveals that it’s clearly the most basic unit of the bunch.
