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Nokia Lumia 900: Bigger Screen, Bigger Battery

mobibu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:00:07 +0000

Exclusively available from AT&T, Nokia’s third Lumia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900 is the first of Nokia’s Windows Phone based range to feature high speed LTE connectivity. Featuring Nokia’s largest display, the Lumia 900 delivers rich content experience from a phone that still fits easily on the palm. Coming exclusively to AT&T in the coming months in cyan and matte black, the Nokia Lumia 900 sports a crisp 4.3 inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display for bright and vibrant images both indoor and outdoors, faster connection speeds based on cutting edge 4G LTE technology and a a long-lasting 1830 mAH battery for 7 hours of talk time and standby time of up to 300 hours (12.5 days). It also allows a whopping 60 hours (2.5 days) of music playback and 6.5 hours of video playback, so users will always be entertained while on the move without worrying about recharging. The rear-facing camera packs an 8-Megapixel sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, 3x digital zoom, 28mm focal length, f/2.2 F-Stop/Aperture and records 720p HD video at 1280 x 720 pixels and 30fps. The camera’s large aperture and a wide angle lens ensures sharp, bright images for high-quality video calling, right out of the box.

Nokia Lumia 800: Every Detail Floats To Life

mobibu — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:40:27 +0000

Nokia Lumia 800 which runs on the Windows Phone 7 OS exudes stylish, avant-garde architecture with superior Nokia Maps and partnership for co-branded accessories with Monster. The amazingly social Nokia Lumia 800 brings your favourite content closer to you with captivating outlook, Nokia’s best social and internet experience, familiar Nokia elements including leading imaging capabilities and new signature experiences.

Outside, the Nokia Lumia 800 sports alluring design and vivid colors(cyan, magenta and black). With absolutely no buttons on the front, the Back, Start and Search functions are set in the glass. This smartphone offers best social and internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy managing of contacts, streamlined communication trends and Internet Explorer 9. Nokia Lumia 800 is equipped with 3.7 inch AMOLED ClearBlack curved display with 800 x 480 pixels and toughened glass. Featuring minimalist body design, Lumia 800 runs on a single-core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm S2 SnapDragon processor with hardware acceleration and a graphics processor.

This stunning new device boasts 16GB of internal user memory (unable to expand via microSD cards) with cloud computing integrated 25GB of free SkyDrive storage for storing images and music. Communications are handled by a quadband reception, up to HSDPA 3G (without 4G LTE support at the moment), WiFi and Bluetooth. Weighing only weighs 142g, talktime is rated at up to 13 hours, or standby for up to 335 hours. Sporting 8-megapixel camera based on leading Carl Zeiss optics and 720p HD video capture, users can instantly share their photos and videos on social networks. Unfortunately, this smartphone lacks a front-facing camera for video chats.

Lumia 800 opens up a new horizon with signature Nokia experiences optimized for Windows Phone, including Nokia Drive which delivers a full-fledged personal navigation device (PND) with free, turn-by-turn navigation and dedicated in-car-user-interface; and Nokia Music introducing MixRadio, a free, global, mobile music-streaming application that delivers hundreds of channels of locally-relevant music. Also integrated in Nokia Music is Gigfinder, providing the ability to search for live local music for a complete end-to-end music experience.

Offering high performance audio experience, Nokia also introduced on-ear Nokia Purity HD Stereo Headset by Monster and the in-ear Nokia Purity Stereo Headset by Monster to reflect the outstanding quality and bold style or the Lumia Range. With all these innovative features, Lumia 800 is definitely cool enough to attract everyone from gadget geeks to casual, fashion conscious phone users. The estimated retail price for the Nokia Lumia 800 will be approximately 420 EUR, excluding taxes and subsidies.

Nokia Lumia 710: Impressive Performance Yet Affordable

mobibu — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:50:49 +0000

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.

Nokia N9: Look Ma, No Buttons, Just Swipe It

mobibu — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:45:19 +0000

Nokia N9 is built for people who appreciate outstanding design and loaded with advanced smartphone technology. Promising great all-round experience, Nokia N9 packs the latest in camera, navigation and audio technology. Nokia N9 body is precision machined from a single piece of polycarbonate and flows seamlessly into beautiful curved glass. The laminated deep black display means that the user interface just floats on the surface of the product. Nokia N9 also boasts polycarbonate body which enables superior antenna performance.

The first thing that you notice about Nokia N9 is that there are no home key. It has been replaced by a simple gesture: a swipe. Just swipe from the edge of the display to take you home wherever you are in an application. Apps takes the centerstage on the 3.9-inch AMOLED screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass because there is no home key. To provide fast access to the most important things people do with a phone such as using apps, staying connected to notifications and social networks and switching between activities, there are three home views in the user interface.

Offering top-of-the-line camera, the 8-megapixel snapper with Carl Zeiss optics offers autofocus sensor, wide-angle lens, HD quality video capture and large lens aperture enable great shots even in dark places. As for navigation, Nokia N9 features free turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice guidance in Maps. With the new dedicated Drive app, you can get in your car and start navigating to your destination right away. For movie buffs, you’ll be delighted that Nokia N9 enables you to watch videos in true 16:9 widescreen format and enables superior sound quality with Dolby® Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology.

To share images and videos between devices, you can take advantage of the Near Field Communication (NFC). Pair it with Bluetooth accessories like the new NFC-enabled Nokia Play 360° wireless music speaker only once, and you get a great surround sound music experience with just a tap. Nokia N9 is available in black, cyan and magenta color with 16GB and 64GB storage options to accommodate plenty of content. For hassle-free out-of-the-box experience, social networking, communication, entertainment and gaming apps are preloaded.