new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft Windows 8

Nokia unveils new Lumia phones

Nokia and Microsoft's new Windows 8 flagship aims to carve a bigger share in the smartphone market

 

by Alvin Chong

Updated 09:48 AM Sep 06, 2012

 

NEW YORK - Nokia has revealed the Nokia Lumia 920, the new Windows 8 flagship phone by Nokia, at a press conference in New York yesterday.

Calling it the "most innovative smartphone in the world", and developed in partnership with Microsoft, Nokia showed off what the new phone is capable off.

Powered by a dual-core processor and a 2,000mAH battery, Nokia claims that the Lumia 920 is "highly responsive" yet with long battery life.

The smartphone's "PureView" camera of the Lumia 920 allows you to shoot in low-light conditions with a f2.0 aperture lens. Tiny springs are built within the camera to capture sharper images, and also allows you to take better low-light images and moving videos.

The Lumia 920 also comes with wireless charging feature, allowing the phone to be recharged without the need for messy cables, and users can use the phone with gloves thanks to the display's "Super Sensitive Touch" input.

Nokia's Lumia 920 will runs the latest Windows Phone 8 operating system (OS), and Microsoft also revealed new updates to the OS. For the first time, Windows Phone 8 will come with the ability to take screenshots. The camera app also comes with new "lens applications" that allow you to modify the photo-taking process, such as Camera Smartshoot where you can take a photo and remove objects, such as people who have inadvertently walked into your photo.

The Nokia Lumia 920 comes with a new 4.5-inch screen that Nokia claims is 2.5 times faster and 25 per cent brighter than LCD screens on other smartphones and can be viewed in high-glare environments. The screen has a 1280x768 resolution.

Nokia also announced a new lower-end phone yesterday, the 4.3-inch Lumia 820, a micro SD slot and exchangeable covers for those who wish to change the colours of their phone.

The Finnish smartphone maker did not reveal the launch dates for its new smartphones.

ALVIN CHONG

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Nokia Lumia 920 'to include wireless charging'

NEW YORK - The new phone will be called the Lumia 920 and will be announced at a special event hosted by Nokia and Microsoft in New York tomorrow.

4.3-inch Nokia Lumia 820. PHOTO COURTESY OF @evleaks.

The Lumia 920 will support wireless charging, technology blog The Verge reported. The site also said the handset would have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and an 8-megapixel camera, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil a second handset, the smaller Lumia 820, at tomorrow's event. The Lumia 820 is said to have a 4.3-inch display, compared with the 920's 4.5-inch display.

Last week, images were posted online that purported to show both handsets. A Twitter account belonging to @evleaks published pictures of phones that looked similar to previous Nokia Lumia models, in a range of colours including yellow and red.

No other information was given but if the pictures are not genuine then they are certainly high quality fakes.

Nokia and Microsoft are pinning their hopes on the next Windows-based phones to challenge it and Samsung's Galaxy smartphones. Their joint media event in New York, which comes exactly a week before Apple is expected to hold an event to announce the new iPhone, will coincide with Nokia World, Nokia's major showcase in Helsinki. AGENCIES

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