Today marked the beginning of the Windows Phone era for Nokia. The company announced to make the Micorosft platform its primary OS just before the MWC in February, but it's only now, at Nokia World that it finally had actual products to show us.
The Nokia CEO, Steven Elop, stepped on stage and unveiled the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. The Lumia 800 borrows the Nokia N9 unibody design and comes with a 3.7" ClearBlack AMOLED, a 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU, 512 MB of RAM and 16GB of storage under the hood.
An 8 megapixel camera with super bright f/2.2 lens is what does the shooting on the Nokia Lumia 800. The snapper also does 720p video@30fps.
The Nokia Lumia 710 is a more affordable device (€270 pre-tax vs €420 pre-tax for the Lumia 800), that comes with a slightly different design, but the same 1.4 GHz Scorpion CPU. It trades the AMOLED for a more conventional, LCD screen and gets a 5 megapixel camera instead of an 8 megapixel shooter.
The Lumia 710 will be available in stealthy black and crisp white at launch with extra swappable covers that match the WP tile color options.
Along with the two headliners, Nokia announced four new S40 handsets. Nokia Asha 200, Asha 201, Asha 300, Asha 303 are all budget-minded cell phones aiming to bring good connectivity options without breaking the bank. Find out more about them here.
The only notable absentee was Nokia 900, which leaked last night, but obviously didn't make it in time for the announcement today, so we'll have to wait a bit more to meet the 4.3" beast.
After the press conference we got a chance to play with the newly announced devices. You can find live photos and our first-hand impressions of all of them on the following pages. We begins with the Nokia 800 Lumia right after the break.
Some new features which are already in with Windows Phone Mango are introduced with Nokia Windows Handset for the first time of course. The features include Microsoft Office, IE9 Mobile, Pictures Hub, People Hub, X-Box Live and 250 GB Skydrive space. Something new that comes in with Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia Drive.
The Nokia Drive is similar to that of Nokia Maps, but Nokia had to find
another name to put it in Windows Phone. Nokia Drive is offline
Navigational software to navigate you in different countries of the
world. The app also has free Voice Navigation. Also the map is
downloadable and can be viewed in 2D and 3D.
Mix Radio another feature in line. This new feature allows you experience preconfigured music on your Nokia Lumia 800 while
you stream it. No need to Login, no password, no subscription. Simply
enjoy the tunes on your device. You can also save them to listen while
offline. Nokia Public Transportation App, this will give instant information about trains and buses of over 45 countries. Sports enthusiast has ESPN Sports Hub where you can look up stats, scores, news, all for free.
Pre
Orders have already started on the official website of Nokia. The Nokia
Lumia 800 will be coming to UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the
Netherlands in November. Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, India and Russia
will get to see the device at the end of 2011. U.S has to wait till the
start of 2012 to get their hands on Nokia Lumia 800. China will be the
last one to get the Nokia Lumia 800. The Nokia Lumia 800 is priced at $580 i.e. EUR 420. According to Nokia 30 carriers have already signed to push out the first real windows device.
So
finally the phone is all set to bang. Nokia hopes to get thier position
back in world of Smartphones. Will they succeed? What do you think? Do
let us know in the comment box.
- Display and user interface
- 3.7” ClearBlack AMOLED display with WVGA 800x480 resolution
- 16 million colours
- Standby UI Windows keys integrated with display
- Capacitive touch screen with pinch zoom
- 2.5D curved glass seamlessly integrated to unibody
- Keys and input methods
- Capacitive touch screen with pinch zoom
- Standard UI Windows keys integrated with display
- Personalisation
- Home screen tiles
- Ring tones
- Wallpaper
- Changeable colour themes
- Power Management
- BV-5JW Battery (embedded) 1450 mAh
- Talk time (maximum):
- GSM up to 13 h
- WCDMA up to 9.5 h
- Standby time (maximum):
- GSM up to 265 h
- WCDMA up to 335 h
- Video playback time up to 6.5 h
- Music playback time (maximum) up to 55 h
- Browsing (WLAN, maximum) up to 6.5 h
- Browsing (3G HSDPA, maximum) up to 4.5 h
- Memory
- 512 MB program memory
- 16 GB internal user memory
- 25 GB Skydrive
- Operating Frequency
- GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100 I/II/V
- Data Network
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n with 2.4 GHz
- HSDPA CAT 10 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA CAT 6 5.76 Mbps
- Connectivity
- A-GPS
- Accelerometer, proximity sensor, Magnetometer, ALS
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n with 2.4GHz
- USB 2.0 high-speed through micro USB connector
- Bluetooth wireless technology 2.1
- 3.5 mm AHJ connector
- Software platform and user interface
- Windows Phone 7.5
- HTML 5, CSS3, SV, XHTML, DOM and more
- Personal Information Management (PIM)
- Contact transfer from other devices
- Facebook integration with phonebook
- Face detection for picture tags before sharing
- Groups allows users to create groups, and share messages and photos within the group
- Contacts
- Calendar
- To-do list
- Notes
- Synchronisation
- Zune PC SW + Mac Connector
- Calendar, Contacts, To Do list
- Media (Music, Video, Photos, Files)
- Applications
- Business Productivity
- Office Applications (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, One Note)
- 25 GB Skydrive** storage for Documents & Notes
- Lync (Corporate IM)
- Outlook tasks
- Games
- XBOX Live Hub**
- See friends presence and leaderboards
- Find friends to play games
- 3D Avatar control & creation
- Synchronisation
- Zune PC SW + Mac Connector
- Calendar, Contacts, To Do list
- Media (Music, Video, Photos, Files)
- Pre-loaded apps
- Nokia Drive** – turn by turn navigation
- TopApps** – locally relevant applications
- Nokia Contacts Transfer – helps to migrate your phonebook from other devices & platforms.
- Nokia Music** - Enjoy great music from the world’s most locally relevant catalogue (14 million tracks). 100 great radio channels with something for everyone.
- Local or Operator Apps
- Email and messaging
- E-mail (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3)
- Mail for Exchange 2003 & 2007
- Rich HTML
- Viewing of email attachments – .doc, .xls, .ppt, . pdf
- Facebook integration with phonebook
- Face detection for picture tags before sharing
- Groups allows users to create groups, and share messages and photos within the group
- Call Management
- Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry with personal thumbnail pictures
- Logs of dialled, received and missed calls
- Conference calling
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Browsing and internet
- Internet Explorer 9 with desktop rendering
- Hardware graphics acceleration
- HTML 5, CSS3, SV, XHTML, DOM and more
- WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n with 2.4GHz
- GPS and navigation
- Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
- Accelerometer for correct orientation of display
- Nokia Drive with free drive and walk navigation
- Download the latest country maps for Nokia Drive for free
- Nokia Maps available from Marketplace
- Bing Maps
- Camera
- 8 MP camera
- Carl Zeiss lens
- LED flash
- Auto Focus
- 720p, 30FPS
- Touch focus
- Fast 1-click sharing
- Fast and non-destructive image editor
- Geotagging
- Image capture
- Fast 1-click sharing
- Fast and non-destructive image editor
- Video cameras
- 8 MP camera
- Carl Zeiss lens
- Auto Focus
- 720p, 30FPS
- Touch focus
- Video sharing and playback
- Zune Video side-loading
- Video codecs and formats
- Playback:. HD 720p video playback
- H.264 @30fps
- MPEG-4 ASP
- 3GP, .3GP2, .MP4, .M4v, .MBR., .WMV (Windows Media Video 9 and VC-1)
- Video capture
- 720p video recording
- mp4
- HD video capture (720p)
- H.264
- Music features
- Zune music
- Nokia Music (in selected markets)
- Free streaming Mix Radio*
- Wide range of audio codecs supported
- .m4a, .m4b, .mp3, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9)
- AAC/AAC+/EAAC+
- AMR-NB
- EVRC
- QCELP
- Radio
- Stereo FM radio
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