Nokia Lumia 720 Available To Pre-Order For Rs.18,999

The Nokia Lumia 720, is now up for a pre order on a online retailer Flipkart for Rs.18,999. If you book the phone before April 24, the phone will come with an 16GB memory card free with it.

The Nokia Lumia 720 has a 4.3-inch IPS LCD capacitive touch screen display with 400x800 pixel resolution. The phone is powered by a 1GHz Dual-Core qualcomm MSM8227 precessor coupled with 512MB of RAM.

It has a 6.7 mega pixel camera and Nokia is claiming that Lumia 720 will be able to have excellent images in low-light conditions.

The Lumia 720 comes with 8GB of internal storage which can be expanded upto 64GB with the help of a MicroSD card. It houses a 2,000 mAh battery which we think is enough for this phone to last for a day long. 

Nokia has also tried to customize the UI a bit by pre-loading the device with some of it’s exclusive Apps like Nokia City Lens etc. And also, Nokia has teamed up with BigFlix to provide free unlimited movie viewing for three months along with the Nokia Lumia 720.

Flipkart To Launch Market Place.

So it’s official now. E-commerce major Flipkart is launching a marketplace, and is currently looking to sign up external sellers for the launch of its marketplace. A sign-in page for sellers has gone live at sellers.flipkart.com, and the company is inviting sellers to list their products on Flipkart, and says it will allow for logistics through Flipkart’s partners. The possibility of this development had been reported byNextBigWhat last month.

On being contacted by MediaNama, Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal said that there is no launch plan defined for the Flipkart Marketplace (but he didn’t say that it’s not launching), and in what shape and form it will go live is not yet defined. “This is part of something new. We are inviting people to register with us at this site. There is no launch plan. It’s one of the many initiatives that we’re launching at Flipkart.”

On whether sellers products will be integrated with Flipkart product listings, or whether Flipkart will shift completely to a marketplace model, Bansal said that nothing has been decided yet. A screenshot of the sign in form below:

NextBigWhat had quoted as source as saying that Flipkart will charge sellers a fee of 6-10%, as against the 12-15% industry average, and that the marketplace will launch by March. Flipkart had launched its ebooks store last November.
Readers should bear in mind that Foreign Direct Investment in e-commerce has not been allowed in India, but marketplaces, which merely act as a space for sellers to find buyers for the products that they are supplying, and which don’t retail their own goods, can take foreign direct investment. Flipkart’s CFO resigned this week.  is reportedly being probed for FDI norms violation, although Flipkart had denied that any raid took place. The company reportedly raised $150 million from Naspers and Tiger Global in August last year.