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nokia has gotten really good at making budget windows phones and now it has another one to add to its lineup I'm Jessica doll clerk for CNN and this is the Nokia Lumia 635 now this is the exact same phone as the Nokia Lumia 630 except that it has 4G so that means you're gonna find an interchangeable back cover a microSD card slot and eight gigabytes of internal storage that also means you're gonna find a 4.5 inch display with an 854 by 480 pixel resolution if you're a pixel hound then you will find that that is a little bit less crisp than what you're gonna find on the motorola moto G 4G luckily the 1.2 gigahertz quad-core processor inside works very well and the 5 megapixel camera on the back doesn't have a flash but it will give you pretty decent photos another teeny tiny difference between the 635 here and the 630 is that the 4G LTE radio will drain your battery a little bit faster you have an 18 30 milliamp hour battery to begin with this phone does have Windows Phone 8.1 on it as its operating system so you've got a lot of themes to work with you can change around the tiles and the size of the dynamic tiles on the front there's a new pull down notification menu and of course the Cortana voice assistant it does come in a variety of color options and again you can change out the back plate so you can change the color as well one thing that I will point out is that it's got these angled sides I feel makes it a little bit harder to hold because it makes it a little bit smaller in the back than it is in the front but I do like the matte finish and that is easy to grip overall this is a pretty nice little phone it will do exactly what you want doesn't have a lot of whistles and bells but I do think that it matches the price the closest competitor is going to be that Moto G 4G with an Android experience but for a Windows Phone I think this is a good buy for CNET I'm Jessica Dahl Court you can catch the full review of the Nokia Lumia 635 at cnet.com