Snapdragon S400 at 1.2ghz (same as lumia 630) confirmed from Nokia site:
Nokia Lumia 830 Specifications - Nokia
Lumia 830 is officially a waste of money. What now? Wait for 1030 or consider an Android device? This sucks.
Well, it won't be the same as the 630. The 630's SoC variant is the MSM8226, which isn't listed as being LTE-capable. It's probably the MSM8926, which admittedly appears to just be the 8226 with LTE. So, it might functionally be identical to the 630, from the CPU and GPU standpoint. If that's the case, the phone's dead in the water, because it honestly might not be faster than a Lumia 820 for some tasks, seeing as the Basemark results pegged the 820's MSM8960 in the Galaxy S III to be faster than the MSM8926 in the Galaxy Grand 2.
We'll see, but I can say now that this is a budget device, at best. If the 930 doesn't come to the U.S. (meaning to non-Verizon carriers), Windows Phone is basically dead in America. The 1520 is too big for most users, and the 830 is underpowered to hell, to the point that off-contract buyers would do better to buy a Nexus and on-contract buyers will do better to go with any number of phones in the $100 range.
Is there some convention for later in 2014 that I am not remembering or something? It feels like Microsoft has completely obliterated its appeal in the high-profit sector here. If I'm on AT&T and my upgrade it up in November, what the hell can I upgrade to, just the 1520? That seems to be the case. My sister's been dying to upgrade from her 822 on Verizon, and it's pretty pathetic that 6+ months after the Icon released, that's the only option still. I mean, I guess the new HTC is also there, but it's the same thing without capacitive buttons, so why even bother with it?