I have the 830

[Ploydd]

Man I can't wait to get this phone. Using a 928 now but I'm on AT&T, so I'm waiting to see if they'll get it sooner than the rumored Nov 7th. If the ebay version can get LTE though, I'm going to be purchasing that one quickly. Wireless charging plus LTE = heaven lol.

 

[WanderingTraveler]

I just got mine delivered (from TrueDigital on ebay), setting it up now. Appears to get AT&T LTE in NYC -- and somehow my **** poor job of cutting my sim card to fit actually worked.

830 has a microSIM? Guess who's going to get it to replace his 630?

How well does Wireless Charging work on the phone? And, how hard of a hit does it take while acting as a hotspot?

 

[azcruz]

Come on one of you owners, run the Basemark OS II benchmark and post the screenshot of the results will you.





Sent from my Cherry Mobile Alpha Luxe

 

[badr0b0t]

my double-tap is disabled. It drains the battery so fast.

 

[Chris_Kez]

I just got mine delivered (from TrueDigital on ebay), setting it up now. Appears to get AT&T LTE in NYC

Glad to hear about LTE working here. That's concern #1 checked off my list.
Have you tried Internet Sharing? That's concern #2 for me. Will ATT enable hotspot for phones not in their IMEI database?
Concern #3 is FFC and Skype video performance. I'm looking to replace my 920, which was "decent" at best for Skype video chat.
My last minor concern is just that I'll miss out on the "Hey Cortana" feature coming to the 1520, 930 and Icon.

 

[HyperKid]

Hi, my question is that does the 830 in the camera settings has living images???

 

[vw1610]

Oh man. Now I'm even more impatient to get my 830. I'm going to wait for the att variant as I'm a cricket customer and want every feature to work.

 

[Verkunder]

Glad to hear about LTE working here. That's concern #1 checked off my list.
Have you tried Internet Sharing? That's concern #2 for me. Will ATT enable hotspot for phones not in their IMEI database?
Concern #3 is FFC and Skype video performance. I'm looking to replace my 920, which was "decent" at best for Skype video chat.
My last minor concern is just that I'll miss out on the "Hey Cortana" feature coming to the 1520, 930 and Icon.

I got one of the Truedigital 985s and Internet Sharing works on AT&T. FFC looks pretty good to me, but I'm no expert.

Only complaint is it doesn't have Denim--I'm loaded with Debian Red. Slightly worried I won't be getting any firmware updates.

 

[humantic]

Here you go was just finishing cutting my sim and looks like I also am getting LTE although here it is pretty poor and I am constantly down to 2 or 3 bars.

 

[azcruz]

Here you go was just finishing cutting my sim and looks like I also am getting LTE although here it is pretty poor and I am constantly down to 2 or 3 bars.
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Thank you!!!


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[mijacs]

Thanks for the basic benchmarks. Can you please run the sunspider test as well?
SunSpider 1.0.2 JavaScript Benchmark (sunspider-1.0.2 test suite - In Progress...)

 

[kevm14]

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Looks like about 12.5% faster than Lumia 920/925 in GPU.
It may score worse in Power Board. Not sure if I am looking at the right comparison.

 

[humantic]

 

[hasasimo]

I wonder if not having Denim or being a protoype in general affects benchmark scores at all.

 

[Darthbobcat]

... no overheat? Good looking pictures? Good sized screen that sounds good? Awesome battery life? Doing well despite being a dang PROTOTYPE?

Yup. I'm getting one of these.

HURRY IT UP, AT&T! I know you won't have the green right away, but I should be able to get a green back online... which'll look pretty sweet with the black siding, IMO.

 

[StutterStep]

I'm dying to know whether "Hey Cortana" works since the 830 supposedly has a sensorcore

 

[Ploydd]

No they already said it would only be the devices with Snapdragon 800

 

[zack251]

Can someone make a sticky thread about the 830 user review?
So I have been using this phone since Saturday until now. My previous phone was Lumia 820. Compared to the Lumia 820, the 830 is lighter and thinner. I almost forgot that I had the phone in my pocket because of its weight.
The screen is nice. I can fit more tiles thanks to its HD screen. For example on my Lumia 820 I can only fit one wide tile per row but with 830 I can fit one wide tile and one medium tile in the same row. Sunlight readability is good and an important feature to me because I live in a country where we get sunshine all year long.
The phone comes with a handy feature like a step tracker integrated so you don't need to wear fitbit band or similar things.
Am not someone who plays games on mobile phone because of the small screen but I have tested some games like Asphalt 8, Bejeweled Live + and Gravity Guy 2. They ran smooth. Asphalt though took a slight delay when loading.
Camera is nice but I am not really a camera guy. But I think it took better pics at night.
Some apps not fully optimized. Whatsapp comes to my mind, opening a picture gallery through Whatsapp (when you want to forward a picture through Whatsapp) took some time because when I opened the built in photo app it was faster.
That's all I have for now.

Edit: Whatapps picture gallery opens faster now. Maybe it was indexing my pictures yesterday after I installed an update (developer preview).

 

[anon(5348756)]

The EXIF in your pictures says nothing about being taken with the 830. I can't believe a word you say until there's some hard evidence.

 

[mijacs]

The FFC picture has it. Although it is weird that the regular pictures are 8MP. The benchmarks are about what I was expecting as well.