Nokia Lumia 710: Impressive Performance Yet Affordable

Nokia unleashed the Nokia Lumia 710, a Windows Phone 7 (codenamed “Mango”) smartphone enhanced with features that brings Nokia’s great strength to life. Create a style statement of your own with customization though exchangeable back covers, changeable home screen colours and thousands of apps. Available in black and white varieties, it comes with choice of black, white, cyan, fuschia and yellow black covers. Featuring 3.7 inch screen with 800×480 pixel resolution, its readable even in bright sunlight with the ClearBlack TFT technology. Sporting 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash at the back, its also capable of recording HD video at 30 frames per second.

Built with social features in mind, Lumia 710 offers tight integration of Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In. Sharing photos with your friends and family can be done in just a couple of taps. It also offers fluid and fast web browsing and compatibility with a wide range of modern HTML5 web apps, thanks to the Internet Explorer 9. Pumped into the smartphone is Nokia Drive, a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation solution and the latest version of Nokia Music featuring MixRadio which offers hundreds of locally-relevant music channels. Also present is the Xbox Live Hub for gaming and Outlook Mobile for retrieving corporate emails.

Lumia 710 packs some impressive hardware specs (considering its affordable price) including 1.4GHz processor, hardware acceleration and graphics processor, 8GB of internal memory and 512MB of RAM. Connectivity options include quadband radio reception, 3G up to HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth. This smartphone phone measures 119 x 62.4 x 12.5mm and weighs only 125.5g. The affordable yet full featured Lumia 710 is expected to cost around €270 before any local taxes or subsidies.