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"Nokia has worked wonders for Windows Phone, turning out nicely-designed and well-thought-out hardware.  Previous reviews have seen us impressed with all of Nokia&amp;#039;s efforts, but left frustrated with the user experience Windows Phone offers. So can Windows Phone 8.1 finally do justice to Nokia&amp;#039;s handiwork? Read on to find out.  The Good   The camera Build quality and design Windows Phone 8.1 is an improvement   The Bad   Screen is unpredictable Windows Phone still lags behind competition   Hardware and Design Nokia has changed up its all-polycarbonate approach with the Lumia 930, throwing in a nice aluminium band around the edges, coupled with an all-glass front. It&amp;#039;s a design that feels fairly unique in the smartphone market right now, especially given our 930 test model had a bright green back to play with. The only bad thing about the design really is that the phone itself does start to feel a little chunky, especially when compared to what else is out there. On paper, it really isn&amp;#039;t much bigger, with the square edges giving the phone the illusion of heft - this isn&amp;#039;t something you are going to mind putting in your pocket.  The Lumia 930&amp;#039;s screen performs really well in direct sunlight  The Full HD AMOLED screen is covered by a nicely-engineered piece of glass that wraps right the way around to the edges of the phone. It&amp;#039;s sharp, bright and saturated, but suffers badly from over-sharpening issues (a bit like LG&amp;#039;s G3) and nasty blurring when scrolling pages of text. This is a shame, particularly when Nokia prides itself so much on its imaging heritage, as a nice display to view photos on seems hugely necessary to us. As for the rest of the hardware, the Lumia 930 has a 2.2GHz quad-core processor from Qualcomm, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. This is a spec sheet that can more than compete with the cream of the Android crop.  The difference here, however, is that Windows Phone really doesn&amp;#039;t need that kind of power, as it&amp;#039;s much more lightweight and less processor-intensive, even in 8.1 form. As such, the user experience is snappy and rapid, with apps opening up as quickly as you could ever need them to. Last but by no means least is the 2420mAh battery. This is the usual &amp;#039;charge everyday&amp;#039; effort, so no LG G2 moment here unfortunately. Windows Phone 8.1 The star of the show here really isn&amp;#039;t the Lumia 930. This phone is more just about hardware to launch Microsoft&amp;#039;s most significant update to Windows Phone in a long time. Designed to play catch-up with Android and iOS, Windows Phone 8.1 is designed to fill in a lot of the gaps that Windows Phone really needed fixing. So has it managed it? The short answer is no. The app marketplace on Windows Phone continues to grow and now, really, we can&amp;#039;t complain about the apps on offer anymore. Should I buy a Windows Phone? But since then mobile phones have moved on even further. We are writing this with LG&amp;#039;s G Watch strapped to our wrist for example. We can&amp;#039;t see anything like that coming to Windows Phone anytime soon. It&amp;#039;s definitely better, but there are still those niggles. Why, for example, does our contact book not always make an appearance when we type someone&amp;#039;s name into the messaging app? The notifications menu is decent and a very welcome addition, but it&amp;#039;s still behind iOS and Android in terms of what it can do.  Really, that&amp;#039;s the take-away message from 8.1. It&amp;#039;s much, much better than previous versions of Windows Phone, but smartphones move so quickly now that Microsoft is going to need to do something different if they want to leap ahead of the competition. Camera The camera inside the Lumia 930 is already a bit of a proven unit. It&amp;#039;s basically the 20-megapixel optically stabilised Zeiss setup found in the larger Lumia 1520. This is no bad thing, as we already know it takes fantastic pictures.  Read our Nokia Lumia 1520 review They are sharp, balanced and accurate - more than enough to compete with the iPhone 5S and LG G3.  What is standout though is Nokia&amp;#039;s own camera app  The camera&amp;#039;s got to be one of the simplest and easiest to use out there, yet with some of the highest levels of customisation possible. Bottom line then, a great camera and a great camera app. Music, movies and apps Windows Phone has just as much to choose from as the competition when it comes to buying and streaming music, so you really don&amp;#039;t need to worry there. The real talking point in terms of media with the Lumia 930 is the quality of the audio playback you get through headphones. Nokia has done a good job making things sound nice here.  You have Xbox Music, Spotify and more to enjoy with it, but no microSD support means you will max out the space on the 930 quite quickly, especially if you snap a lot of photos. Verdict The Lumia 930 is very much the phone that Microsoft needs to succeed. With the iPhone 6 inbound and handsets like the HTC One M8 showing that the competition can do design just as well, there is a lot of pressure on this handset. For the most part, it really does deliver. The screen is a touch odd, with the image bleed mentioned earlier being a genuine issue. Then there is Windows Phone 8.1, which is good but not great. Really then, it falls to design and camera to keep Nokia&amp;#039;s hopes alive. Luckily, they are both fantastic, but then again, so is what a lot of Android and iOS are doing right now. If simplicity is what you are after, Windows Phone 8.1 and the Lumia 930 come highly recommended, but for a proper flagship smartphone experience, you may need to look elsewhere.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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