Which is sad, since Glance makes so much difference. To have an AMOLED screen and not have Glance is very strange - on the similarly puzzling Lumia 930, I put the omission down partly to Nokia being unable to source a 1080p AMOLED panel with the right memory onboard, but surely there can be no such excuse on the 720p-screened Lumia 730, so it's purely a business decision, based on bill of materials and profit margins. One thing you do miss - immediately - is Nokia Glance, the system where Windows Phone works with special display memory in a phone screen to enable a low power presentation of critical information, like time, date and notification icons. It's a 'pentile' display, which may annoy those with razor sharp eyes, but at this price point I don't think anyone's going to mind too much. Go into a shop and try one!įor your £200 (or so, though this should drop well below in time) SIM-free or pay-as-you-go price in the UK, you get a 4.7" AMOLED, 720p display that is clear and pretty sharp, and with genuine CBD polarisers, ensuring that it's also clear when out in sunlight. The best of both worlds? Nokia just nailed it.
The trick to getting the entire back shell off is to brace the phone and use (strong) finger nails around the top of the screen, exactly as shown - it works well once you get the hang of it and, when back in place, the 735 feels - and looks - completely unibody, you really wouldn't have a clue that this wasn't a sealed design. Nokia/Microsoft (and from here on I'll just write 'Nokia' since that's what's on the phone and on the box) is in fact so worried that people will try and force the back off with a screwdriver that it includes a sticker on the 735's back, as seen here: Why is this important? In order to gain access to SIM and microSD slots without ungainly slots and trays, and to be able to replace the battery if needed. Following on from Ewan's first impressions, here's my more detailed review.Īt first glance the Lumia 735 (and yes, everything here also applies to its dual-SIM sister, the 730) feels uncannily like a Nokia Lumia 800 or N9, from 2011 - it's styled unashamedly in the 'Fabula' design language and, in fact, it comes as something of a shock to realise that the back comes off, rather than being a sealed design like the two devices just mentioned. And yes, the camera's pretty good (for the money). Regardless of this specific angle, it's a very capable Windows Phone that could be picked up quite inexpensively.
Launched at IFA 2014, the Lumia 735 is the new lower-mid-range handset from Nokia (actually Microsoft Mobile now, of course), with the marketing tag of being all about 'taking better selfies'.
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