CORTANA DISABLE VIAVOICE ANDROID
This is a shame, as it's just as well built as other Lumia phones and its funky set of colours offer a great alternative to the swathe of budget black and white Android phones available.
CORTANA DISABLE VIAVOICE WINDOWS
We're not sure how Microsoft's gone so wrong with the Lumia 535, but it remains one of the worst Windows phones we've ever tested. Objects and buildings further also weren't particularly crisp round the edges, and shadow areas looked a little green, but this isn't surprising for a 5-megapixel camera.
We found this rather off-putting as it removed a lot of the detail on show and gave everything a noticeable white and yellowish sheen. Outdoors, our shots were reasonably well-exposed with rich, accurate colours, but particularly light or bright areas seemed to bleed out into the surrounding picture, making certain areas appear slightly soft and hazy. The Lumia 535 has five-megapixel cameras on both the front and back of the phone, but we weren't very impressed with the overall picture quality. ^ Colours look good and there's a reasonable amount of detail on show, but shadow areas are a little dingy and green Siri, on the other hand, immediately picks up conflicts and asks what to do. Trying to change conflicting appointments with Cortana was also a bit of a hassle, as she would only notify us of a conflict after she'd scheduled the second appointment. Siri, on the other hand, immediately asks you what time you'd like to make the appointment for and schedules it accordingly.
For instance, if you try making an appointment for "Monday morning", Cortana will default to 8am and trying to change the time involves several more steps and requests that we'd rather do without. The main problem with Cortana in its current form is that you have to be very specific in your requests. As with previous Lumia handsets we've tested with Cortana, there's still a long way to go before it can rival Apple's Siri in terms of accuracy and efficiency, but it is still in beta at the moment, so we're hoping it will be improved over the coming months.
The Lumia 535 has all the latest Windows Phone 8.1 features, including Cortana, Microsoft's personal digital assistant that can search the web to answer questions and queries via voice control.