Nokia Lumia 830 Vs Xiaomi Redmi 1S: Pitted In Terms Of Design, Display, Camera, Hardware And Price, Which Is The Best Smartphone?

Here is the design, display, camera, hardware and price comparison of Nokia Lumia 830 and Xiaomi Redmi 1S according to the report of the Phone Arena and Fuse Joplin.

Design and Display

The Xiaomi Redmi 1S features a shiny plastic rear panel with big bezels, it has a display size of 4.1 inches IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels and 312 ppi. It has a weight of 158 grams and dimensions are 137x69x9.9mm.

The Lumia 830 features a glossy back with slightly rounded corners and the side is surrounded by a metal frame. It has a weight of 150 grams and has a dimension of 5.49x2.78x0.33inches. Lumia 830's ClearBlack IPS LCD display of 5 inches has the same resolution as the Xiaomi.

Camera

The Lumia 830 offers a 10 megapixels rear facing camera which uses a Carl Zeiss optics that gives an optical image stabilization, and a 0.9 megapixels front facing camera. While the Xiaomi phone features an 8 megapixels back camera and 1.6 megapixel on front facing camera. Both smartphones has a LED flash and features autofocus, touch to focus and others.

Hardware

Both smartphones come equipped with the same Cortex-A7 processor with four cores, but the Xiaomi Redmi 1S has a faster clock rate of 1.6GHz while the Nokia Lumia 830 offers 1.2GHz only. Also, both handsets offer the same chipset of Qualcomm MSM228 Snapdragon 400, and GPU which is Adreno 305.

Furthermore, the Lumia 830 has a built-in storage of 16GB and expandable up to 128GB, while the Xiaomi Redmi 1S offers 8GB and can extend up to 32GB only.

The Lumia 830 runs on Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia Denim UI OS and the Redmi 1S runs of v4.3 Jelly Bean.

The Xiaomi Redmi 1S can be purchased at the price of $155 while the Nokia Lumia 330 is $330.