Today Nokia announced the first two of its new line of Windows Phone smartphones. At the Nokia World conference in London, the Finnish phone manufacturer announced the upcoming release of the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710.
The Lumia 800 is Nokia’s new flagship smartphone and will feature a 3.7″ 800×480 touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera, 9.5 hour battery time (for phone calls), 7 hours of video playback, WiFi support, bluetooth, micro USB, 16GB of user memory, 512 MB of RAM, 2 microphones, 3D accelerometer, and an ambient light sensor. It will run Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and feature several proprietary apps, such as Nokia Music, Microsoft Lync, Bing Maps, and personal information manager software for contacts, calendars and more.
The Lumia 710 will have the same size screen but a more rounded shape to the case. It will also have lower specifications, such as a 5 megapixel camera and 8GB of user memory. Two unique features are that it will allow swappable covers and changeable home screens.The Lumia 800 is Nokia’s new flagship smartphone and will feature a 3.7″ 800×480 touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera, 9.5 hour battery time (for phone calls), 7 hours of video playback, WiFi support, bluetooth, micro USB, 16GB of user memory, 512 MB of RAM, 2 microphones, 3D accelerometer, and an ambient light sensor. It will run Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and feature several proprietary apps, such as Nokia Music, Microsoft Lync, Bing Maps, and personal information manager software for contacts, calendars and more.
Both devices will have single CPUs clocked at 1.4 GHz. They will also have typical Windows Phone features, such as the People Hub for social media connections on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites, and the web accessible through Internet Explorer 9.
The Lumia 800 is already being packaged and prepared for shipment starting in November. Initially, it will be available from 31 carriers in six European countries: Italy, the U.K., France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. The retail price will be 420 Euros (USD $584). The Lumia 710 will be available at a lower cost (270 Euros) but will not be available until later in the year. Its preliminary markets will be Hong Kong, India, Russia, and Taiwan.
These two phones mark the first products from a long-term deal Nokia made with Microsoft to make the Windows Phone operating system Nokia’s primary platform. Nokia previously had its own platform, Symbian, as well as the Linux-based MeeGo, which was a joint venture with Intel. The move to Windows came as a surprise to much of the tech world, including Intel, which has since abandoned the MeeGo project as well.
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