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Nokia Lumia 510 Review

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The 5 MP camera on the back of the handset lacks an LED flash next to it, so low-light shots get more than the usual hit here. There is no front-facing camera either.

Graced with the typical Windows Phone 7.8 camera interface, Lumia 510 allows for adjustments in the contrast, brightness and saturation of the photos and videos you are about to capture, as well as number of scene presets, including a macro mode, which comes handy.

Camera interface of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review
Camera interface of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review
Camera interface of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review

Camera interface of the Nokia Lumia 510


Photos themselves come out a bit soft, but the colors are accurate and detail is plenty, which is more than we expected from the phone's price point. There are a few white balance issues here and there, like with sky clouds going purple at points, but we've encountered those on much more expensive handsets too.


The big let-down is the video definition, as the Lumia 510 shoots footage in VGA only, which runs crisp and with fluid 30 fps, but in this day and age of 1080p phones, is nothing to write home about.

Nokia Lumia 510 Sample Video:




Multimedia:

The Windows Phone music player categorizes your tunes by artists, albums, playlists and even genres, but for equalizer presets you have to visit the Settings app beforehand. It is also able to run in the background, and can be managed from the lock screen, which comes handy.

Music player of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review
Music player of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review
Music player of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review
Music player of the Nokia Lumia 510 - Nokia Lumia 510 Review

Music player of the Nokia Lumia 510


The phone's loudspeaker is of average quality, both in terms of strength and sound, feeling rather flat and tinny, especially at the highest volume.

Video playback goes up to HD clips without a hitch, despite the humble processing power, but only MPEG-4 files are supported, as usual.
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1. darac posted on 21 Jan 2013, 04:09 6

Is this that thing that can't run angry birds?

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2. loyals posted on 21 Jan 2013, 04:28 4

yea...bcoz of lesser amount of RAM

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4. harsh_doshi posted on 21 Jan 2013, 06:52 7

all versions of angry birds are now optimised for these devices (256mb ones) now so it can run them.

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3. Nathan_ingx posted on 21 Jan 2013, 06:46 1

"What will make many
potential buyers turn away from the phone, though, is
the lack of a microSD slot for storage expansion." agreed...but that wouldn't have been a bad point if the phone come atleast with 8GB of internal memory. Just 2.5 GB user free internal-memory is too extra less!!

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5. Bappy posted on 21 Jan 2013, 07:15 3

i liked the camera quality.... if only it had flash
& the phone should have at least 8GB internal..

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6. Raymond_htc posted on 21 Jan 2013, 08:40 2

Wow 256MB of ram is really horrible!!!!

Here's what i think this phone should have-

4 inch screen, same resolution....

Running Windows Phone 8, powered by a single core 1.2 GHZ processor (S2 snapdragon)

Micro SD card slot

4GB internal memory

512 MB of RAM (THATS more better!!!)

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7. -box- posted on 21 Jan 2013, 14:21 1

That raises the price point and could make it unattainable in its target markets for the average consumer there. I agree MicroSD expansion and/or some more memory (even just a few gigs more) seem almost necessary, but most users of it will take a photo, upload it elsewhere, and delete it, or stream music instead of purchasing it and saving it on the device. For those who want more, there is the 620

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10. Raymond_htc posted on 24 Jan 2013, 09:05

True, true. :o

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11. Raymond_htc posted on 24 Jan 2013, 09:06

Well at least they could have a higher ram and a sd card slot but with the same specs and everything tho :p

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8. Divinity posted on 22 Jan 2013, 01:09

This is a really great phone. Do check out my review of this phone. worldwideweb.divinelawrence.wordpress.com/2013/01/​21/nokia-lumia-510-with-windows-7-8/

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9. Divinity posted on 22 Jan 2013, 01:21

This is a really great phone. Do check out my review of this phone. divinelawrence.wordpress.com/2013/01/​21/nokia-l​umia-510-with-windows-7-8/

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12. sujani posted on 05 Feb 2013, 09:41

wanna know why viber calls can not be made using this phone and why games like Talking Tom can not be installed :-(.. can some one plese answer and do let me know the possible options in this phone.. and even no skype as well. Really, aint these the minus points in this model?

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13. loyals posted on 05 Feb 2013, 12:15

u cant makes calls using viber in windows phones bcoz it doesnt support yet. some games cannot b installed bcoz it has only 256mb RAM while other ohones have atleast 512mb

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14. Alpha135 posted on 25 Feb 2013, 08:03

Huh, this "thing" seems like the Lumia version of the 500 (crappiest phone in the line).

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15. veereshrjoladal posted on 28 Feb 2013, 06:48

nokia and microsoft needs to solve many problems this device has... doesnt worth buying this...:(

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