Nokia Lumia 710 goes on sale today

Nokia doesn’t have many Windows Phone devices. In fact, its first one, the Nokia Lumia 800 only hit the market recently. Well, it looks like the phone isn’t going to be so lonely anymore. Nokia has announced that starting today, the Nokia Lumia 710, which was unveiled at the same time as the Lumia 800, will be available for purchase. The phone will be available in select countries (US still yet to be determined, but we’ll probably find out after the T-Mobile/Nokia event) starting with Taiwan today.


Other countries that will be selling the device include Singapore, Russia, Hong Kong and India. Let’s hope it won’t take too long to reach our shores. Specs of the Lumia 710: 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor, Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB of RAM, 3.7″ 800 x 480 display, 8GB of internal storage, 5-megapixel rear camera, Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), 3G HSPA+ connectivity, and a 1,300mAh battery.

Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Smartphone Technical Specifications:

• 3G, WCDMA (HSPA+) / Quadband GSM (900/1800/1900)
• 3.7” inch (480 x 800 Pixels) ClearBlack AMOLED Display
• 1.4 GHz SIngle Core Processor + 512MB RAM
• 8GB Memory
• 5 Megapixel Camera (28 mm wide angle) with LED Flash, 720p Video Recording and Autofocus
• Xbox Live Hub for Gaming and Zune Player for Music
• Wireless 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth v2.1
• Integrated A-GPS receivers with Nokia Maps
• Facebook integration with phonebook
• Stereo Fm Radio
• Nokia 1300 mAh battery
• Talk time up to 455 Minutes
• Standby time up to 400 Hours
• Dimensions: 119 x 62.4 x 12.5 mm
• Weight: 125.5 gm

Nokia Lumia 710 Box Packs Includes:

Handset, Stereo Headset WH-208, Nokia Battery BP-3L, Charger AC-10, Charging and Data Cable CA-190CD

Designed for the low-end market, don’t expect this Windows Phone to cost a bomb when it hits our retail outlets.


Expected price : 16,600 INR ($332)
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Nokia X2-02 Dual SIM Phone - Prize in India

Nokia just unveiled the latest addition to its featurephone lineup. The Nokia X2-02 is a dual-SIM phone running on the Series 40 UI that relies mainly on its attractive price tag to attract customers.
The Nokia X2-02 is built around a 2.2" LCD of QVGA resolution (240×320 pixels). It has a couple of SIM slots, a SIM manager that makes managing them easier and even allows hot-swapping of SIM cards.

There's a 2MP camera and an FM radio receiver, an FM transmitter and a 3.5mm audio jack onboard the Nokia X2-02. The microSD card slot allows you to expand the storage by up to 32GB, so you can have all the space you need for your music collection. A microUSB port enables easy transferring of said collection.
The Nokia X2-02 lacks 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, so you're stuck with EDGE if you want to browse the web on this one.

Nokia Asha 303-Features,Specifications and Price in India

The Nokia Asha 303 is a touchscreen phone with a full QWERTY keypad that gives you the advantage of using a touch or type input, to meet your specific needs. This Nokia phone runs on Series 40 operating system and is designed to give you a smooth user experience. This Asha series phone has a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen that gives you a clear display while handling. The Nokia Asha 303 is loaded with a 1 GHz processor. This phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera with fixed focus that can take pictures and record videos.

Key Features

• Series 40 OS
• 3.2 MP Primary Camera
• 2.6-inch Capacitive Touchscreen
• 1 GHz Processor
• QWERTY Keypad
• FM Radio
• Wi-Fi Enabled
• Expandable Storage Capacity Of 32 GB

Design

The Nokia 303 is crafted to fit well in the palm of your hands. This easy to carry phone has the camera and speakers loaded at the back of the device. The right side of this Nokia phone has a dedicated volume rocker that lets you control volume levels while using the phone. It also has a lock key that allows you to lock you phone with ease. The top of the Nokia 303 has a USB port and a 3.5 mm jack.

Battery and Storage

This Nokia Asha series phone is powered by a Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery that gives you a talk time of up to 8 hours on 2G and up to 7 hours on 3G. This mobile phone when fully charged gives you a standby time of up to 720 hours on 2G and 840 hours on 3G. The Nokia 303 handset has an internal memory of 100 MB and is expandable up to 32 GB using microSD, microSDHC cards.

Connectivity and Features

This handset from Nokia is built to support GPRS, EDDE, 3G and Wi-Fi platforms. The Nokia Asha 303 has a preloaded Nokia Browser that you could use to surf the pages of the web. This mobile phone is enabled with Email and Push Email that lets you keep in touch with your personal and professional work environments efficiently.

This Asha series phone has Bluetooth and a micro USB port with which you can connect to other compatible devices. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Orkut are supported on the Nokia 303 to help you keep in touch with friends and share your views with the world. This Nokia handset supports conference calling and lets you talk to many friends at the same time.

Price (Indian Rupees): Expected Price:Rs.7925

Price (USD): Expected Price: $176.11 approx

Nokia E61

Thin is still in, but those of us who wanted a sleek and slim design in a smartphone, especially one with a QWERTY keyboard were out of luck until the Motorola Q came out on Verizon a few months back. What if Windows Mobile isn't to your liking, or you prefer a GSM world phone to Verizon's US-only offering? You were out of luck until Nokia surprised us with the sexy and capable E61 this summer. The E61 has it all: brilliant and roomy QVGA display, solid smartphone OS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a full QWERTY thumb keyboard and push email support including BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Seven and Visto. WiFi is particularly yummy since BlackBerries, Palm Treos and the Motorola Q all lack WiFi.

The E61 runs Nokia's S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1 and comes with full PIM applications, email client, a superb web browser and applications to read, edit and create MS Office documents. Not only that, it looks really, really good and measures only .55" thin. In the US, the Nokia E61 is offered by CompUSA, Tiger Direct, some independent T-Mobile dealers (such as Skylight Wireless in the Dallas Metroplex area who supplied our review unit) and importers. Importers generally sell it for a truly affordable $350 unlocked with no contract while CompUSA sells it for considerably more. The E61 is a quad band world phone with EDGE and Euro-3G (not compatible with US 3G). You can use the phone with any GSM provider, which means Cingular and T-Mobile in the US. Since the E61 is a business phone, it does not have a camera, but the newer E61i adds a camera. The E61 is available in several localized versions for different countries and languages. All have full support for English but the QWERTY keyboard on the Middle Eastern one is bilingual with both English and Arabic in the case of our Middle Eastern review unit (which came with both English and Arabic manuals). The Spanish version adds a few non-English characters (this is the one that's generally cheapest and easiest to find on eBay as of this writing). So if you're buying sight unseen, check with the seller to see which version they're selling. Cingular is rumored to release the Nokia E62 later this year, which is the same as the E61 but it deletes WiFi and 3G.

Display: 16 million color 320 x 240 (QVGA) display. Screen size diagonally: 2.8 ", landscape orientation.

Battery: Nokia BP-5L Lithium Ion rechargeable. Battery is user replaceable. 1500 mA. Claimed talk time on GSM networks: 4.3-9.5 hours. Claimed standby: 13-17 days.

Performance: Texas Instruments OMAP 235 MHz CPU. 64 megs of flash memory for storage and typically 22.5 megs RAM available for running programs after boot.

Size: 4.6 x 2.74 x .55 inches (117 mm x 69.7 mm x 14 mm). Weight: 5.08 ounces (144 g).

Phone: GSM quad band world phone supporting the 850/900/1800/1900MHz bands with GPRS, EDGE and UMTS on the 2100MHz band for Europe.

Camera: None.

Audio: Built in speaker, mic and Pop-Port jack. Mono headset included but will output stereo to Nokia's optional stereo Pop-Port headsets. Voice Recorder, Music Player (MP3) and RealPlayer included.

Networking: Integrated WiFi 802.11b /g and Bluetooth 1.2.

Software: Contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, Office suite (read and write Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents), PDF viewer, Navigator GPS application (requires optional Bluetooth GPS), Pro Golf Contest 2, memory card manager, Java VM, Messaging client (SMS, MMS, POP3 and IMAP email), Nokia PTT (Push To Talk), web and WAP browsers, voice recorder, Gallery, Converter, Calculator, File Manager, RealPlayer, Flash Lite, Zip Manager, theme manager, application manager, Transfer (transfer contacts, calendar and some phone settings to or from another S40 or S60 phone), music player, clock, printer managment app.

Expansion: 1 miniSD slot. 64 meg card included.

Nokia N97

Part of the company's high-end N series of multimedia computers, the N97 trumps all previous models with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a tilting 3.5-inch touch screen (anyone else reminded of the AT&T Tilt or Sony Ericsson Xperia X1?). Yes, there's the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, but the N97 includes phone capabilities and is designed for the "needs of Internet-savvy consumers."

For example, the smartphone provides easy access to a number of social-networking sites, and the Web browser supports streaming Flash videos. The N97 also introduces something Nokia calls "social location," which uses the capabilities of the integrated A-GPS sensors and electronic compass to automatically update users' social networks, or let them share their location via photos or videos with friends.

The Home screen can be personalized with widgets of favorite Web and social-networking sites. Finally, the N97 is fully compatible with Nokia's Ovi Internet services, which include the Nokia Music Store, Nokia Maps, and the N-Gage gaming platform--though these services have yet to fully launch in the United States.

The Symbian-based smartphone also features a music and video player, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and a whopping 32GB of onboard memory that can be expanded with a 16GB microSD card.

The quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) world phone is HSDPA-capable handset, but it currently supports only the 900/1900/2100MHz bands (AT&T's 3G network runs on 850/1900MHz, while T-Mobile runs on 1700/2100MHz). There is integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, however.

The Nokia N97 is expected to ship in Europe during the first half of 2009, with an estimated price of 550 euros ($695). As Crave reader UKStory1355 humorously and astutely noted in our blog post yesterday, "Like it matters to U.S. citizens; we won't see it for 18 months, anyway," there is no official word on when we'll see the N97 stateside. Heck, we're still waiting for the Nokia N96.

Of course, there's always the possibility of buying the smartphone unlocked, and who knows? Maybe Nokia will surprise us.

Obviously, the Nokia N97 takes a jab at other popular touch-screen smartphones, namely the Apple iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1, and Research In Motion BlackBerry Storm, but will it succeed? It certainly has the substance and style to take on the big boys, but will it go the way of the Xperia X1, in which the lack of a U.S. carrier and a high price tag will severely limit its adoption in the States?

Either way, we think that the Nokia N97 looks like a pretty sweet device, and we're looking forward to having some personal hands-on time with it. Above is a Nokia-produced video of the N97. I'd love to hear your initial thoughts