Nokia's Windows Phone 8 powered flagship smartphones are launching today. The Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are available online for Rs. 36,499 and Rs. 26,499 respectively.
Nokia’s flagship smartphones are going to launch today, and they are already available online. Both the devices are available on Saholc.com. The Lumia 920 shows a price tag of Rs. 40,000 but is available for Rs. 36,499 on the site.
Those interested can check out the Lumia 920 on Saholic.com here. The Lumia 820 on the other hand is available for Rs. 26,499 on Saholic.com. You can check it out here. Both devices will apparently ship in five business days.
The Nokia Lumia 920 is designed with a polycarbonate shell, and come with PureView technology, however, without the massive sensor of the original 41MP Nokia 808 PureView (despite the 920 being 10.7mm thick). It instead houses an 8.7MP camera with an LED ‘pulse burst flash’, which is capable of 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps. It features floating lens technology, which supposedly rivals the optical image stabilization (OIS) of DLSRs, and enables the sensor to capture more than 5-10 times the light of regular smartphone cameras.
Nokia Lumia 920 listed on Saholic
The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch curved glass IPS LCD display, which with Nokia’s PureMotion HD technology, delivers a “better than HD resolution” of 1,280×768 pixels (WXGA). The touchscreen will also be navigable with gloves on. The Lumia 920 supports wireless charging with Qi interoperability standards.
Other specifications of the Lumia 920 include 1.3MP front facing camera with 720p HD video recording, a weight of 185 grams, and a 2,000 mAh battery rated to deliver up to 17 hours of talktime, and 400 hours of standby time. It will surprisingly not come with a microSD card slot.
The 9.9mm-thick Nokia Lumia 820 is almost identical on the specs sheet, except for a smaller 4.3-inch 800×480 pixel AMOLED display, and the lack of a PureView camera – 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash instead (also capable of 1080p HD video recording), coupled with front-facing VGA camera.
The Lumia 820 also supports wireless charging, when coupled with a removable shell case, which will ship with the device. It also has a smaller 1,650 mAh battery that’s rated to deliver up to 14 hours of talktime, and 330 hours of standby time. Unlike the Lumia 920, it supports a microSD card slot, up to 32GB.
If you are interested in picking up a flagship smartphone today and are not particularly inclined towards an OS, you can take a look at our comparison of all the flagship smartphones available in the market here.
If however, you are a Windows Phone 8 lover and are looking for the best smartphone running the OS, you can take a look at our comparison of smartphones running Windows Phone 8 here.
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