Nokia Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 review

Nokia has updated its smartphone line-up with some new Lumia handsets running on the freshly announced Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. The Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 are the two more affordable options while the Lumia 930 is the firm's new flagship device.

Design 

Like the Nokia X, the Lumia 630 and 635 come in a bright green colour but Nokia is also introducing a bright orange option. The firm is not scared to be bold with its colour palette with also a bright yellow available. If you can't handle the kind of look then black and white will also be on offer.

There's little to say about the design of the new Lumia devices since they carry the same look and feel as previous devices from Nokia. A plastic interchangeable shell makes up most of the phone, while the front is entirely glass.

Hardware

Aside from the mobile data difference, the two Lumia smartphones share the same specifications. They're powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor and 512MB of RAM. That might not sound like much memory but the phone seems to run smoothly based on our hands-on time.

There's only 8GB of internal storage but matching new flagships like the Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8, the Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 come equipped with a microSD card slot which is capable of taking up to 128GB. As per usual, you can get 7GB of free OneDrive cloud storage.

Software

Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 come pre-loaded with Windows Phone 8.1 which is the latest version of Microsoft's mobile operating system. Although an update will be rolled out to existing Lumia devices, it won't arrive for a few months.

A headline new feature is the Action Center (below) which finally brings notifications to Windows Phone. Like iOS and Android, it's accessed by swiping downwards from the top of the screen. You can choose which apps you want notifications to appear from and there are also four tiles for quick settings which you can customise.

There are other tweaks too such as more lockscreen themes, a new calendar which integrates weather (genius), the Word Flow keyboard offers personalised predictive text and swipe style gesture typing. A set of Sense (not HTC) features help you manage data usage, storage and Wi-Fi.

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