Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 Windows Phone devices coming in mid-December to India


Nokia and Microsoft has unveiled the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, Nokia’s first Window Phone devices in India. Both the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 were unveiled at the Nokia World 2011 in London. The Nokia Lumia 800 has a unibody design and comes with a 3.7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) ClearBlack AMOLED display. The Nokia Lumia 700 comes with a 3.7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) ClearBlack TFT display. Both these devices are powered by 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Scorpion CPU and runs on Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) OS.

Both these devices come with a 512 MB RAM. The Lumia 800 has 8 MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, LED flash and 720p video recording and has 16 GB Internal Memory. The Lumia 710 has 5 MP auto focus camera, LED flash and 720p video recording and has 8GB Internal Memory. The connectivity features include, 3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, and A-GPS.

These phones come with Zune Music Player, Nokia Music and mixradio, free online streaming service, 3.5 mm audio jack and Stereo FM radio. The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with 1450 mAh battery and the Nokia Lumia 710 comes with 1300 mAh battery. These also come with Xbox live integration, IE9 browser, Facebook and Twitter integration, Nokia Drive with 3D maps and turn by turn navigation voice guided navigation in 50 languages including Hindi and dedicated in-car-user-interface, Nokia Music, Contact Transfer, App Highlights. The Nokia Music and Mixradio would  be available in India in the first half of 2012.

The Nokia Lumia 800 comes in Cyan, Black and Pink colors and the Nokia Lumia 710 comes with range of interchangeable colors and would be available  across key cities and towns starting mid-December in 5000 retail outlets across India. The prices of these phones have not been announced yet. Both devices will be available for pre-order starting early December.

Do checkout our Nokia Lumia 800 review and the hand-on images and video of the Nokia Lumia 710 from the Nokia World 2011.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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