The phones represent the company’s latest best shot at turning its ailing smartphone business around.
Source: CNET
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Nokia executive vice president of smart devices, Jo Harlow, holds aloft the Lumia 920.
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Nokia today unveiled its latest flagship phone, the Lumia 920, its first to run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system.
CEO Stephen Elop showed off a bright yellow Lumia 920, larger than its predecessor, the Lumia 900.
The phones represent Nokia’s latest bid to vault back into the smartphone business in a big way. They also represent a last chance of sort for the company to pull out of its recent decline.
The camera’s advanced features were spelled out to an audience of journalists in New York by Jo Harlow, Nokia Executive Vice President. Among the major features of the new phone are a 4.5-inch screen, wireless charging, Nokia Maps (with offline support) — including an augmented reality feature Nokia calls “City Lens” — a powerful “PureView” camera, and even NFC support.
Features galore
Nokia was also emphasizing the role of the Lumia’s camera as a major distinguishing feature of the phone. Based on the camera tech found in the 808 PureView — though without the high megapixel count of that model — the 920’s camera utilizes a “floating lens” tech that moves and reacts to movement to balance the lens, allowing the shutter to stay longer and more light to come in. According to Nokia, it captures 5-10 times the amount of light as any other smartphone competitors’ camera.
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Wireless charging is one of the Lumia 920’s distinguishing features.
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The 4.5-inch screen is a WXGA model that offers better-than-720p HD resolution. Nokia claims it’s the “brightest” and “fastest” smartphone screen on the market.
Rounding out the Lumia 920’s laundry list of features is NFC support. While often touted as a mobile payments solution, Nokia demoed NFC as a solution for easy music playback with NFC-compatible speakers: just tap the phone to the speakers, and wireless music playback is enabled without the need to key in a passcode.
The Lumia 920 will be available in yellow, red, and gray versions.
Nokia also unvield the Lumia 820, a 4.3-inch model with a microSD slot and interchangeable “shells” available in multiple colors. The shell also enables wireless charging.
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