Nokia Announces New Lumia Smartphones – Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Nokia Lumia 920

Nokia has officially announced its flagship Windows Phone 8 device on Wednesday in the form of Nokia Lumia 920. Featuring the latest generation Qualcomm processor, Nokia Lumia 920 comes with 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display, Wireless charging support and 2000 mAH battery.

The smartphones comes with one-piece polycarbonate body and will be available in yellow, red, white, grey, and black colour options.

As expected the new Lumia 920 will come with PureView technology, but it is no Nokia 808, and only features an 8.7 megapixel sensor. However, there is a big positive in the form of dedicated camera button, which is so-often missed from current generation of smartphones.

Other features of the smartphone include 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, 1.2MP front camera, and Micro-USB port.

On the Windows Phone 8 front, the smartphone will have access to Internet Explorer 10, full Nokia location suite, improved business grade security, deeper integration with PC, and a revamped start screen with resizable tiles and more personalisation options. 

Nokia has not revealed any details about pricing or the exact availability of the smartphone, which is expected to go on sale later this year.

Nokia Lumia 920 key specs

• 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display with 1280x768p resolution
• Dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU
• NFC
• 2000 mAh battery
• 8.7MP Pureview rear camera
• 1.2MP front camera
• Wireless charging
• 1GB RAM
• 32GB internal storage
• Micro-USB port

Nokia Lumia 820

The new smartphones features 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 dual-core processor, 4.3-inch Clearblack display and 8GB of internal storage. Lumia 820 will also come with microSD card support, 8MP rear camera, VGA front camera, NFC and Windows Phone 8 OS.

Similar to Lumia 920, the mid-range Lumia 820 will sport the full suite of Nokia location apps, and Citi Lens AR application.

Coming to the OS specific features, Windows Phone 8 on Lumia 820 offers Internet Explorer 8, deeper integration with PC, revamped start screen with resizable tiles and improved business grade security.

The smartphone will be available in red, yellow, grey, cyan, purple, white and black colour options.

Nokia has not revealed any details about pricing or the exact availability of the smartphone, which is expected to go on sale later this year.

Nokia Lumia 820 key specs

• 4.3-inch ClearBlack OLED display with 800x480p resolution
• Windows Phone 8
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB internal memory
• Support for microSD card
• 8MP rear camera with dual LED flash
• VGA front camera
• NFC
• Wi-Fi
• 1650 mAh battery

Source : NDTV.

Mobile with 41MP Camera Sensor

Nokia unveils the N8′s successor, the 41MP PureView 808 at MWC 2012.

The Nokia PureView 808 is certainly one of the biggest highlights of MWC 2012 so far, with an incredible 41MP camera sensor. Running Symbian Belle, the PureView 808 certainly lived up to the promise of being the N8’s successor, with an ‘extra large camera sensor’ and then some.

With all those 41 megapixels (38MP effective), the PureView 808’s camera sensor condenses 7 adjacent pixels into one, downsizing it to an extra-sharp and light-sensitive 5MP image – 8MP images are also possible. Max image quality is up to 38 MP at 4:3 aspect and 34 MP at 16:9. The 808’s camera features a Carl Zeiss lens, a built-in Xenon flash, alongside a LED light for video. As you’d expect, it can handle 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps, with stereo sound, and 4x zoom.

The rest of the Nokia PureView 808’s hardware doesn’t do the stratospheric camera justice, with the low-res 640×360 AMOLED Gorilla Glass display, albeit 16:9, the most startling choice on a cameraphone. Other specs include a single-core 1.3GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB built-in storage, USB-on-the-Go, Bluetooth 3.0, HSDPA 14.4Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps, Wi-Fi N with DLNA, GPS and A-GPS, stereo FM radio, and even NFC. The PureView 808 should arrive by May this year.

Thanks GSMArena .

Nokia unveils its first Windows Phones

The first Nokia Windows Phones have finally arrived, as expected at Nokia World – the Lumia 800 and 710, fresh with Mango (WP7.5) onboard. The devices, sharing similar specs, are expected to hit stores in Europe starting November, followed by India, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the end of the year; rolling out completely by early 2012.

For now, suggested prices are €270 (roughly Rs. 18,000) for the Lumia 710, and a comparatively steep €420 (roughly Rs. 28,000) for the Lumia 800, though the two Nokia Windows Phones share very similar specifications.

Common features include a single-core 1.4GHz Scorpion processor on the Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset with a 3D Graphics HW Accelerator, 512MB of RAM, a 3.7-inch display with 800×480 pixels resolution, 25GB of free Microsoft cloud storage, no expandable storage, stereo FM with RDS, 720p HD video recording, GPS with A-GPS, micro-SIM card slot, active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, HSDPA 14.4Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps, Wi-Fi 801.2 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity with A2DP and EDR, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microUSB port.

The two Nokia Windows Phones have distinctive form factors however, with the Lumia 800 sharing the unibody styling of the N9, and capacitive touch buttons, while the Lumia 710 has hardware buttons. Neither device has a front-facing camera. Differences include the storage space (8GB versus 16GB), the type of display (ClearBlack TFT instead of ClearBlack AMOLED), camera (5MP autofocus with LED flash versus 8MP Carl Zeiss f/2.2 with dual-LED flash), and battery (1300 mAh versus 1450 mAh).

The Lumia 710 comes in black or white, with interchangeable back panels in various colours – black, white, fuchsia, yellow, cyan. The Lumia 800 comes with a choice of cyan, magenta, and black.

Microsoft: First Nokia Windows Phone to launch next week

According to recent reports, Microsoft has confirmed that Nokia would be launching its first Windows Phone device next week, tying in with expectations of the first Nokia Windows Phone being introduced to the world at the Nokia World event beginning on the 26th of October. Also expected on a similar timescale is the retail availability of the first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices from Samsung.

Andy Lees, the head of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, spoke about how Nokia would help Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 get a foot in the smartphone market, at the All Things Digital AsiaD conference in Hong Kong:

“We are very excited about them being in the market. They have a lot of resources throughout the world and they will be a major accelerant to us.”

Lees added that Microsoft’s road map for Windows Phone was what convinced Nokia to place almost all its eggs in the one basket, and that Google was “very nervous” about the collaboration between the software and hardware giants:

“We’ve been working hard on building an architecture that allows us to leapfrog our competitors by using the best components available.”

Microsoft is looking at the United States, Europe and China (the world’s biggest mobile phone market) as its top markets for the new WP7.5 (Mango) devices, but also has high hopes for emerging markets, especially in the face of low-cost handsets:

“As the price comes down, emerging markets do become a huge opportunity, but also the existing markets in western Europe and the U.S., because as the price point comes down, more people will get into the smartphone market.”

China so far hasn’t officially received its first Windows Phone devices, and Microsoft says it will launch in that highly competitive market by early next year.

So far, Windows Phone Mango has already hit the Indian market in the form of the HTC Radar. Other Mango devices to have been launched globally include the Fujitsu IS12T in Japan.

‘Nokia Tune Remake’ contest

While audio branding is not something that we hear (pun unintended) about everyday, Nokia’s classic ringtone – or the “Nokia Tune”, at least to my generation, is certainly heraldic, and has become unmistakably associated with the Finnish mobile giant since it was first introduced, back in 1994.

Now as a distinct sign of the changing times – Nokia has decided to rebrand itself, and refresh the “world’s most recognised audio brand asset”, by announcing a contest to compose the new Nokia Tune. The new signature tune will begin shipping with select Nokia devices in 2012.

The Nokia Tune Remake contest, held in association with AudioDraft, will close on October 2nd, so if the $10,000 grand prize excites you, or the chance to be heard a billion times a day all over the world on over 100 million projected devices, you better get cracking. Visit nokiatune.audiodraft.com to register.

A total of ten entries will enter the finals – the five most voted for entries, and five entries picked by judges, who will also pick the winner, and five runner-ups. The runner-ups will get their tunes hosted on the Ovi Store for download, and $1,000 each.

Nokia 500, the first 1GHz Symbian phone

We were initially sceptical when hearing things like ‘Nokia is now focussing on both Windows Phone 7 and Symbian’ going round the industry. However, with the plethora of Symbian Belle phones in the making, and now the company’s latest announcement of a new Symbian Anna device, the 500 (previously known as the Nokia Fate), things have certainly changed around a bit.

Looking just like the Nokia C5-03 and the Nokia X6, the Nokia 500 has something special in store – a 1GHz processor, making it the first Symbian phone to officially boast of that clock speed. Calling the phone a “low-cost, full-function smartphone,” Nokia has managed to keep the price down, with a MSRP of 150 Euros, excluding taxes. The Nokia 500 is expected to hit markets by the end of the third quarter, with a black body and six differently coloured back panels bundled. A white version is expected in Q4.

Other features of the phone include 256MB of RAM, a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen with 640×360 resolution, a 5MP camera, as well as 3G (14.4Mbps HSDPA and 5Mbps HSUPA), Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR, and GPS (with A-GPS) connectivity. The phone also features a 3.5mm audio jack, stereo FM radio, a microUSB port, 2GB of built-in storage, and a microSD card slot that supports expansion up to 32GB. The Nokia 500 is also expected to be lightweight, at 93 grams – the same as the C5-03.

The Nokia 500 comes with quite a few apps bundled, from Shazam to Swype text input. Also onboard is free turn-by-turn voice navigation with Ovi Maps for 80 countries, and native Twitter and Facebook integration with the Social widget. Refer to Nokia’s 500 page for more information.

You can check out the rather corny videos of the Nokia 500 in action below. In the meanwhile, Nokia has also given a preview of the new version of the Symbian, called Belle, in a video demonstration on the Nokia N8. Stay tuned for more coverage on that in-depth look.