The Nokia Lumia 830 is a smartphone developed by Microsoft Mobile and branded as “Nokia” that runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. Being announced in September 2014 in Berlin and released the next month, it is a successor to the 2012 Nokia Lumia 820 and marketed as an “affordable flagship”.

Being a bit late to the party, Microsoft still tried to make Windows Mobile happen, trying to unify the designs of Windows 8 for desktops and mobiles, but it was still caught in the crossfire of the Android-iOS war. Being a shy presence in the market, with a very small App Store base, the phone wasn’t too well received, even being a pretty decent gadget. It had 1GB of ram, 16GB of internal storage and an expandable SD card slot.

What is actually really nice about this phone is that its battery (even on my 8-9 year old device) is still good, performance is actually decent for most tasks, even some basic browsing works fine. It’s nice that it got updates to Windows Mobile 10, so it’s up-to-date (by 2019 standards, the End of Support of WM10).

Can it be a main phone? Sure, I know of people that use it on a daily basis, people that still need a bit of internet on the go, but don’t actually need blazing performance or high-end features. Great phone and last hurrah from the company that brought the Booklet 3G five years earlier.

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If you want to see a table with the technical data, go and check the GSM Arena page.