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.

Nokia Lumia 620 Available To Book Online At Rs.15199

Nokia Lumia 620 is available to book online and is told to be shipped in second week of march.

Nokia Lumia 620 has a 3.8-inch WVGA LCD display, a 5-megapixel camera and a front facing VGA camera. It runs on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor and is backed by Adreno 305 graphic processor. This phone has an internal memory of 8GB and is expandable upto 64GB with an Micro-SD card.

The phone has the latest Microsoft operating system which is the Windows 8. Nokia is to be providing a talk time of up to 15 hours (2G) with its 1300 mAh battery and is available in 5 colour variants which include white, black, cyan, green and magenta.

The phone is a budget Windows phone which is available to book at Rs.15,199 at many online retailers including flipkart etc.

--Vedang Parmar

Nokia Lumia 620 Now Available In UK, India Not Lucky Yet!

The Lumia 620 is out now! It is now available in the UK at a price of GBP 299.99 for the SIM-free phone.

In a facebook post last Friday Nokia UK posted the availability of the phone in UK market.

The Nokia Lumia 620 phone sports a 3.8 inch capacitative multi-touch display screen with a display resolution of 800 by 480 pixels. The phone runs on the latest operating system from Microsoft, the live tiles based Windows 8 and is powered by the 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor.

Read the next page to know about its availability in India.

Nokia launches the Lumia 920 and 820 in India, And The Lumia 620 coming early next month

Nokia lumia 920

Nokia has officially launched it’s flagship Windows Phone 8 handset, the Lumia 920 in India along with it’s younger sibling, the Lumia 820 and both the handsets would go sale starting tomorrow morning in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai while the other cities would follow soon. Nokia also announced the Lumia 620 for the Indian market but it would go on sale only by early next month.

Now, the most important thing you’d want to know- the pricing. Well, Nokia has kind of disappointed us with the pricing of the new Lumia handsets. The Nokia Lumia 920 costs Rs.38,199 while the Lumia 820 comes at an MRP of Rs.27,599. The price in our opinion is a bit steep and Nokia could’ve done much better considering that it doesn’t enjoy the premium positioning in the market anymore and it’s Android rivals like the Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X+ come for a lesser amount of money and are immensely popular amongst the masses.

If you don’t quite remember the specifications of the devices, here they are again- The Nokia Lumia 920 comes with a 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display and believe us, Nokia brags a lot about this new technology! It is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and such power under the hood is more than capable of giving you a lag free experience on the Windows Phone 8 OS. The phone comes with 32GB of internal storage but there’s no micro-SD card slot for storage expansion.

The highlight of the Lumia 920 though, is it’s 8.7 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and it’s probably one of the best cameras we’ve seen on a smartphone. Nokia demoed the imaging capabilities of the Lumia 920 at the launch event and all we could do, was just applaud the good work. The camera also offers optical image stabilization and it brings quite some improvements in the image quality. The front of the Lumia 920 gets a 1.9 megapixel camera and the phone houses a 2,000mAh battery.

Nokia lumia 820

Younger brother to the Lumia 920, the Nokia Lumia 820 comes with a 4.3-inch AMOLED display that has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels which nearly amounts to 217 pixels per inch (ppi) and is one of the most disappointing factors of the smartphone. Though, as opposed to what we assumed earlier, the Lumia 820 isn’t targeted to rival the HTC 8S, but sits a segment higher. The Lumia 920 is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Adreno 225 GPU paired with 1GB of RAM and ensure quite-smooth operation on the device.

The Nokia Lumia 820 comes with 8GB of internal storage along with a micro-SD card slot for storage expansion and houses an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics but misses out on the optical image stabilization. The front of the device has a video camera which can be used for calling and to keep the phone up and running for long, it gets a 1,650 mAh battery.

Unlike the Lumia 920, the back cover on the Nokia Lumia 820 is removable and you can this, change the color your device as per your need with many color options like black, red, blue, magenta,white, grey and yellow being available. BUT! be very careful while removing the back cover as it is near to impossible to remove it and if you apply much force, you might end up breaking it.

Nokia lumia 620

Unlike the Lumia 920 and 820, the Lumia 620 won’t go on sale tomorrow but would make it’s way to stores in India by early next month and Nokia hasn’t revealed the price of this device yet. But considering how it’s older siblings are priced, we expect the Nokia Lumia 620 be be priced in the Rs.18,000-20,000 segment. Thus, expect the Lumia 620 to take on the HTC 8S.

The Nokia Lumia 620 sports a 3.8-inch TFT WVGA ClearBlack display and is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor coupled with 512MB of RAM. The device comes with 8GB of internal storage along with a micro-SD card slot for storage expansion by up to 64GB.

The Lumia 620 houses a 5 megapixel snapper at the back along with LED flash and also, a front-facing VGA camera to fulfill you video-calling needs. One major concern with the device though, could be it’s 1,300 mAh battery which in our opinion might not be enough to keep the phone running throughout the day.

Nokia Said That It Is Prepping An Aluminum-Clad Lumia For Release Later This Year

Nokia’s been awfully fond of slapping its high-end hardware into polycarbonate bodies, but that trend may soon come to an end if a new report from The Verge holds true. According to unnamed sources within Nokia, one of the Finnish phone company’s new top-tier Windows Phones (codenamed “Catwalk”) will be clad in lightweight aluminum instead of the usual colorful plastics.

Of course, the key words there are “one of” — The Verge’s Tom Warren points out that two Windows Phones are being prepped for a launch sometime in 2013. At this point there’s still little in the way of hardware specifics, though the so-called Catwalk isn’t expected to be a great leap over the existing 920.

That Nokia would consider a shift in design isn’t a huge shock — aluminum bodies could help Nokia keep the weight of future smartphones down — but it does fly in the face of some of the company’s earlier crowing. Shortly before Nokia’s most recent Lumia launches, it posted a neat little piece on the effort that went into crafting the devices on its Conversations blog where it noted that the polycarbonate gave its phones “a human touch.” What’s more, Nokia has noted more than once that those eye-popping colors that have become a hallmark of its Lumia Windows Phones were only really possible by using plastics instead of metal, so it remains to see how (if at all) Nokia’s colorful design language will be tweaked as a result.

Nokia Lumia 920′s 4G capabilities useless in India

Have you been waiting for this amazing Windows Phone 8 handset from Nokia since long now? Well, even before we have a confirmed date of release for the Nokia Lumia 920 in India, we a confirmed bit of bad news for you.

If the full specifications of Lumia 920 listed on Nokia’s website are anything to go by, the flagship Windows Phone 8 handset from Nokia will not run on the 4G networks available in India, even though the handset comes with 4G LTE capabilities. 

Confused? Okay, we’ll explain. Though, the Nokia Lumia 920 comes with 4G LTE capabilities, but most of countries all over the world have implemented Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) standards, which run on 2100 and 2600 MHz bands, while Indian (and China, as well) have implemented Time Division Duplex (TDD) standards, which run on 2300 MHz bands. Thus, manufacturers tend to use more widely adopted, 2100 and 2600 MHz bands on their device. 

Hence, the users in India will not be able to access the internet at 4G speeds. This might not be an issue for the users as till now, even the 3G network isn’t as widely used and the 4G network as of now, is just being provided by one carrier and that too, only in 3 cities. So, it might take a long while for 4G to make it’s mark in India.

With all this being said, you might still miss the lack of 4G in India on the Lumia 920, because even if/when you decide give 4G a try, you won’t really have an option if you end up buying the Lumia 920.