Nokia announces first Windows Phone devices

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Nokia has its own event Nokia World in London are two of the first Windows Phone devices announced. The most high-end, the Lumia 800, which is the same design as the MeeGo phone N9, who next month comes out.

The Lumia 800 has a 3.7″screen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels, the maximum resolution supported in Windows Phone 7.5. The screen is an amoled panel, Nokia-referred to as Clear Black Display. The Lumia 800 runs on a Qualcomm MSM8255 cpu with a clock speed of 1.4 GHz and has 16GB of storage.

The device has a housing of polycarbonate, a hard plastic. In the apparatus fits a conventional sim card, but only a microsim. Apple adopted the smaller sim card previously in its iPhone 4 and 4S. Other manufacturers have the micro-sim standard is not used in devices. The Lumia 800 has an 8-megapixel camera with a f/2.2 Carl Zeiss lens. The smartphone should be 17 november in the Netherlands come true and going to los 420 euros in costs.

In addition, it was announced by the Finnish manufacturer at the London event will be a cheaper model, which as the name Lumia 710 inherits. The 710 has a 3.7″screen, also with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The device also includes the same 1.4 GHz-soc as its bigger brother. The device is available in several colors, and users will backcovers in different colors can buy. The 710 will be out in early 2012 available in the Netherlands and must be 270 euro.

Nokia supplies the devices are navigation software, Nokia Drive. Users can pre download maps for free, and the phone install. Should anyone outside of the pre-installed kaartengebied travel, via 3g additional map data downloaded.

Also, the music service of the Finnish manufacturer will be on both Lumia’s. For Windows Phone 7 is Nokia Music expanded with a feature that the company Mix Radio called. Users can free and without account hundreds of muziekmixes stream Nokia composed. These mixes can also be downloaded for afterwards offline to be listened to.

The two devices are the first smartphones from Nokia with Windows Phone. The Finnish manufacturer has its own operating systems, Symbian and MeeGo sidelined in favour of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. The manufacturer hopes that next year many more models with Windows Phone on the market.