anon(50597)
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I have the 830 with the insider preview of w10m on it. It runs fine though a little slow, at least compared to my iPhone 6.
How about an HTC One M8? If the camera isn't important, the M8 is the best of the last generation. I'm running WP10 on mine, and it's running good with latest updates. The quad-core 2.3GHz and 2Gb of RAM crushes anything and everything WP can throw at it.
Last generations best windows phone are the 1520 and Lumia icon/Lumia 930
Absolutely agree.For those who said that the Snapdragon S4 Plus of the 810/82x/92x/etc. is the same or better than the 400 in the 830, perhaps it is on paper...but in usage, there's no comparison.
.. but I think the 830 gets an undeserved bad rap for its SoC.
You can make your case as much as you want, but I made my decision long ago that the 830 was and is a poor product. It was marketed as a flagship, yet its SoC was not meaningfully better (if at all) than its predecessor (the 820) from 2 years prior. It was a low-end chip at the time it released, yet sold as something worthy of a high-end price tag of $450. Basically, it was a budget phone with a good camera and wireless charging.
I'm not going to start the argument of 830 vs. 950 because that's a laughable game to even try to play, the 950 would just take a massive dump on the 830. The 830 was overpriced, underpowered, and a phenomenal disappointment. Its only redeeming quality, in my eyes, was that it had some nice color options (I'd have liked the 950 to be sold in green and orange), but that doesn't make up for its price tag and hardware shortcomings. There's a reason they called it an "affordable flagship," then discontinued it 6 months later and pushed out the half-hearted 930, and it's that they knew it was disappointing and poorly marketed.