Nokia announced a low-cost Windows Phone 8 smartphone - Nokia Lumia 620. The Lumia 620 uses interchangeable shells, packs a 3.8-inch TFT display, 1 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 5MP rear-camera with flash and VGA front camera. It also features 8GB internal memory, Nokia City Lens, Bluetooth, NFC and WiFi.
The Nokia Lumia 620 will be available in the first quarter of 2013 for $249.
Nokia Transport 2.3 Beta is available in more than 550 cities worldwide, help you find the best and quickest route around town. In this new version of Nokia Transport the icons have been modified to make your journey more ‘glanceable’. Different icons now represent different modes of transport, e.g. bus, train, or subway each has it’s own icon. Additionally, hotels, restaurants and shops now have new icons, too. You can check you previous destination with a simple swipe left or right.
Key Features:
Everything, all in one place: One view for all your public transportation information with integrated pedestrian, bus, train, and light rail for over 700 agencies worldwide.
Tap for transport nearby: Easily discover which stop or station is closest to where you are, check upcoming departure times for buses, trains, trams, and more.
Integrated route options: With Journey Planner you can review multiple integrated route options including the fastest way to get there from where you are. Choose the route and time that works best for you and you are all set with detailed door-to-door routing.
Detailed door-to-door routing: Guided directions show you where to get off, and guide you all the way to your final destination with integrated walking directions. View your walk directions on a map or in a list view.
Pin your favorite destination to your start screen: Easily find your way back to your favorite destinations right from your start screen and get route and departure times at a glance.
Smart search: quickly search by address or POI to find the best route.
You can also expect to see Nokia Transport arriving on the upcoming Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820.
Nokia announced that it will bring several new features including new user interface, apps and upgrades to existing Lumia Windows Phone handsets (Lumia 900, 800, 710, and 610). Nokia's legacy Lumia devices won't be graced with Windows Phone 8 but to compensate, Finnish manufacturer will deliver new Start screen look and feel, familiar from Windows Phone 8, Nokia City lens, ringtone maker app, updated contact and share app, Bluetooth file transfer to send media files. Additional new features for all Lumia devices will include:
A new Start screen look and feel, familiar from Windows Phone 8, giving you a whole new look the moment you unlock your phone
Ringtone maker app to selected markets to create a personal ringtone
Contact share app updated to support sharing over Bluetooth in addition to SMS and email
Bluetooth file transfer to send media files via Bluetooth from your Lumia device to any other phone
The upgrades will be rolled out in phases for the Lumia 610, Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 Source:- Nokia Conversations
Firstly we have Nokia Lumia 900 in Pink and now Samsung Galaxy S III in Garnet Red color will be available for pre-order from AT&T beginning July 15th and make its way into stores on July 29th.
There no update on pricing yet but we are hoping that it will cost same as of Samsung Galaxy S III in white/blue ($199.99 with two years contract).
Don’t like the Nokia Lumia 900 Batman Edition? Here is yet another version of Lumia 900, but this time in beautiful pink color. Starting July 15th, the new pink color will join the league of white, black and cyan, will be available in the US from AT&T.
The Nokia Lumia 900 features a 4.3-inch screen, a 1.4Ghz processor, Windows Operating System, 8MP camera, a Bluetooth, WiFi, and 1,840mAh battery. Nokia also recommends Apict, Groupon and Fruit Ninja apps for pink Lumia 900.
Nokia announced a maintenance update for the Lumia 900 on AT&T's network in the U.S. This update removes purple hue which affected the screen of some devices in low light conditions, improved sensitivity for the proximity sensor and also includes other minor adjustments and enhancements.
You can download the update through Zune for Windows user or Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac user.
Nokia is likely to introduce Nokia Lumia 900 Batman Edition in selected European markets - including the UK (via Phones4U), France, and Germany in the coming weeks.
According to Pocket-lint, Nokia’s current Windows Phone device Nokia Lumia 800 has 'extremely limited Batman edition', too and will come in black and have the Batman logo laser etched into the polycarbonate body.
There is no pricing details on Nokia Lumia 900 Batman edition and Lumia 800 Batman edition.
The Nokia Lumia 900 available for $99.99 with the activation of a two-year service contract, comes in two colors, cyan and matte black (with a white version coming soon). The phone has a 4.3-inch active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display, a 1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor, an 8 megapixel camera with an exclusive Carl Zeiss wide-angle lens and a 1 megapixel front-facing camera.
The HTC Titan II, the next-generation Titan device will be available for $199.99 with a two-year service contract. It features the most powerful camera yet among Windows Phones, at 16 megapixels. The Titan II also has a dedicated image processor and a back-illuminated sensor for low lighting. It has a 4.7-inch display, also the largest among Windows Phones, and a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor.
The Nokia Lumia 900, the Windows Phone will be available exclusively in the U.S. from AT&T on April 8 for $99.99 with 2 year contract.
The Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display (800X480), a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200 processor, a 512MB RAM,running Mango Commercial Release 2 (Mango + LTE) (Windows Phone 7.5) and has an 16GB of internal storage. If we talk about camera, there's an 8-megapixel primary camera with a 28mm f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens and 1-megapixel with an f2.4 lens and 30fps capture front-facing camera. There’s a 1840mAH battery which will last for about 7hrs talk-time and up to 300hrs on standby. Other features include, a Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 2.0 high-speed and A-GPS.
Those who can't wait to get their hands on this new smartphone can pre-order it in cyan or black beginning March 30th by visiting http://www.att.com/lumia or any AT&T company-owned retail store. Qualified business customers who receive wireless service discounts can pre-order the Lumia 900 online, beginning the afternoon of March 30, at http://www.att.com/nokialumia900.
The Lumia 900 will be available in unique and eye-catching cyan blue and a matte black on April 8th, with a newly announced high-gloss white version on sale beginning April 22nd.
After launching the Nokia Lumia 900 as its first LTE smartphone, Nokia is also making the phone available around the world in a DC-HSPA variant, for high speed data connection (42Mbits download) in countries where LTE is not available. The Nokia Lumia 900 features a 4.3 inch ClearBlack AMOLED display features 8MP camera, 512MB RAM and running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). It is also the first Lumia phone to feature a front-facing camera, with large aperture and wide-angle lens for sharp, bright images and video calling out of the box. The Nokia Lumia 900 will be available in white, cyan and black, is priced at EUR 480 and also expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2012.
Nokiaand AT&T announced the Nokia Lumia 900, the first of Nokia's Windows Phone-based range to feature high-speed LTE connectivity. Coming exclusively to AT&T in the coming months in cyan and matte black, the Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display (800X480), a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200 processor, a 512MB RAM,running Mango Commercial Release 2 (Mango + LTE) (Windows Phone 7.5) and has an 16GB of internal storage. If we talk about camera, there's an 8-megapixel primary camera with a 28mm f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens and 1-megapixel with an f2.4 lens and 30fps capture front-facing camera. There’s a 1840mAH battery which will last for about 7hrs talk-time and up to 300hrs on standby. Other features include, a Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 2.0 high-speed, A-GPS and there's no word on pricing yet.
Read the full press release and watch introduction video after the cut.
Nokia and AT&T introduce the new Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T's 4G LTE network
First Nokia smartphone designed specifically for the US features LTE, large display and exclusive applications
Las Vegas, US - Today at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nokia and AT&T announced the Nokia Lumia 900, the first of Nokia's Windows® Phone-based range to feature high-speed LTE* connectivity. With Nokia's largest display, the Nokia Lumia 900 delivers a rich content experience from a phone that still fits easily in your hand.
Coming exclusively to AT&T in the coming months in cyan and matte black, the Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display for rich, bright images both indoors and out, faster connection speeds based on cutting-edge 4G LTE technology, and a long-lasting 1830 mAH battery for enjoying content all day.
The primary camera includes Nokia's exclusive Carl Zeiss optics, with large aperture (F2.2) and wide angle focal length (28mm) for high-quality, uncropped images even in low-light conditions. In addition, the Nokia Lumia 900 includes a front-facing camera boasting a large aperture and a wide angle lens that ensures sharp, bright images for high-quality video calling, right out of the box
Nokia's third Lumia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900 builds on Lumia's head-turning design on the outside and a rich social and Internet experience on the inside. People Hub is the quickest way to connect with friends with Live Tiles for real-time updates and a fast Web browsing experience with Internet Explorer Mobile.
"The introduction of the Nokia Lumia 900 with AT&T is another significant milestone in the ongoing rollout of Nokia's global smartphone strategy," said Chris Weber, president of Nokia Americas. "The Nokia Lumia 900 is designed specifically with the US in mind and the announcement of this collaboration with AT&T, in addition to other recent announcements, signifies a new dawn for Nokia in the US."
The Nokia Lumia 900 benefits from a range of leading content experiences:
- The AT&T U-verse Mobile** app lets U-verse TV subscribers browse the U-verse TV program guide, schedule and manage their DVR recordings, and watch hit TV shows while on the go. The U-verse Mobile library includes more than 100 TV series and more than 700 TV shows from a variety of genres.
- Nokia Drive, available to download from Windows Phone Marketplace, provides free voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation with a dedicated in-car user interface that turns the Nokia Lumia 900 into a GPS navigation device.
- The exclusive ESPN sports hub is pre-loaded on Nokia Lumia smartphones, and provides a one-stop sports application for news, videos and scores.
- The CNN App for Windows Phones provides the latest news and video from CNN's reporting around the globe and direct access to iReport, CNN's participatory news community. Launching globally for free in the next month, the CNN App will be exclusive to Nokia users for 90 days.
- The Univision App will be exclusive to Nokia Lumia users in the U.S. and Puerto Rico for 18 months, delivering unique and exclusive Spanish-language content experiences, including Univision entertainment, sports and soccer coverage, plus news, cooking and local content for different U.S. markets - all in one App.
- A partnership with EA to bring over 20 of the world's most popular games to the Windows Phone marketplace, coming first to Nokia Lumia devices.
"Nokia and AT&T worked hand in hand to bring the Nokia Lumia 900 to market. Our powerful 4G network really amplifies the benefits of the Nokia Lumia 900. Sharing high quality images and videos with its integrated social networking functions is faster than ever; content from U-verse Mobile is more enjoyable on the crisp 4.3-inch screen, and with its huge battery people can do more without worrying about recharging," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of devices for AT&T. "Together, we are working to supercharge the ecosystem around the Nokia Lumia 900 and the Windows Phone platform."
