Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Nokia announces Lumia 820, a 4.3-inch, LTE-running, budget-friendly Windows Phone 8 handset

Nokia announces Lumia 820, a 43inch budgetfriendly Windows Phone 8 handset

No matter your budget, Nokia's got a Windows Phone 8 handset for you. While the Lumia 920 is holding the high-end hostage, the Lumia 820's planning to sneak in and capture the midrange. The phone is packing the same dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 internals that you'll find in the Lumia 920, 1GB RAM, while wireless charging is available as an optional feature -- with a replacement back that adds around 1mm to its overall thickness.

While the 4.3-inch handset isn't unattractive, the design language of the 800 (and N9) that captured our hearts has been dumped in favor of something a little more symmetrical. The glass of its OLED 800 x 480 ClearBlack display is flat rather than curved and the body's finish is a little more shinier than the previous generation of Nokia's brand of polycarbonate.

Photography fans looking to get their hands on some budget-flavored PureView goodness will be disappointed to see that it's been reserved for the high-end model. This unit comes with the more familiar 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics that we've seen on other models. A further improvement on the 800 comes round the front, with the inclusion of a VGA camera for video chats.

Those clamoring for more storage will also be happy to see that while it comes with only 8GB of on-board memory, it's packing microSD support and you'll get an additional 7GB of SkyDrive space on Redmond's cloud service as part of the deal.


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