Nokia Lumia 530, UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Dark Grey

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The L2 (level 2) cache memory is slower than L1, but has a larger capacity, instead, which allows it to cache more data. Just like L1, it is much faster than the system memory (RAM). If the CPU does not find the data needed in L2, it proceeds to look for them in the L3 cache memory (if there is such) or in the RAM.

The display resolution shows the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical side of the screen. The higher the resolution is, the greater the detail of the displayed content. However, this only really applies to the real core of the Windows Phone 8.1 system – the home screen and apps menu. All bets are off when you head into an app, and here we do start to see the cuts to the Lumia 530’s internals a bit. Image quality isn’t great either. The Nokia Lumia 530 uses a TN panel rather than an IPS one, and these types of screen suffer from contrast shift, which is where the character of the display changes quite radically when tilted away from the perpendicular. The Lumia 530 comes in a slate form factor with 4-inch touchscreen. The viewing angles are slightly reduced compared to other phones in the Lumia line. The Lumia 530’s 5-megapixel rear camera is a cut above most other budget cameras. In our outdoor shots, colours were rich and detailed even in cloudy, overcast weather, and there was only a very small amount of focus deterioration toward the edge of each frame. We’ve seen plenty of 5-megapixel cameras perform much worse in this kind of weather, and we’d say it’s easily as good as the Lumia 630’s 5-megapixel camera.Information about the process technology used in manufacturing the chip. The value in nanometers represents half the distance between elements that make up the CPU. You may also be surprised to hear that the Lumia 530 is actually less powerful than the Lumia 520. While the older phone has just two cores of 1GHz a piece, its cores are much better than the 530’s, using a more advanced 28nm Krait architecture. Its Adreno 305 GPU is also a fair bit better than the Lumia 530’s Adreno 302. The weather was very cloudy and overcast when we took these photos, but colours aren’t too murky or muddy talk time is the time period a battery charge will last, if one is constantly talking on the phone in a 2G cellular network.

The instruction set architecture (ISA) is a set of commands used by the software to manage the CPU's work. Information about the set of instructions the processor can execute. These colours seem to be all the rage over at Nokia towers this year, being the same ones on offer for the Lumia 630 and Lumia 930. System on Chip (SoC) A system on a chip (SoC) includes into a single chip some of the main hardware components of the mobile device. SoC Altering brightness to cope with daylight reveals one of the Lumia 530’s most annoying traits, though. Like the Lumia 630, there’s no auto brightness setting as the phone does not have an ambient light sensor.Storage space is limited to 4GB local, with up to 128GB extra underneath the proverbial hood. RAM is set to 512MB. A 1,430mAh battery promises a rated talk time of 13.4 hours and a rated standby time of 22 days. We'll perform our own in-house tests in the coming days, but as with all phones, you should expect to charge the handset each day. In the US, the FCC tests measured a digital SAR of 1.09 watts per kilogram. Buy it or skip it?