Nokia launches Lumia 920 and 820 in India, 620 coming in February

 

Nokia is launching its Lumia 920 flagship in India today alongside the Lumia 820. The phones will be available in brick and mortar stores as well as through Nokia's online store with free shipping starting tomorrow and will cost $697 and $504 (RS 38,199 and RS 27,599)respectively.

The budget Windows Phone 8 offering Lumia 620 will be available in India from February but the price and exact date aren't available just yet.

The Lumia 920 isn't exactly on the cheap side - you could get a Galaxy S III for less and a Galaxy Note II for about the same. The Lumia flagman is, however, cheaper than a brand new iPhone 5.

HTC's Windows Phone 8X and 8S, which are the other available WP8 smartphones in India are also priced lower, but that's to be expected given their more modest specs sheets.

To refresh your memory the Lumia 920 has a 4.5" ClearBlack IPS display on tap with the PureMotion HD+ technology, which ensures higher framerates for lower motion blur. There's an 8.7 MP snapper on the back with PureView technology for enhanced low-light performance and Carl Zeiss optics. The device is powered by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 with two 1.5 GHz Krait cores.

The Lumia 820 uses a lower-grade dual-core Krait chip, 8 MP camera with 1080p video recording and a 4.3" ClearBlack AMOLED display of WVGA (480 x 800) resolution.

Finally the Lumia 620 has a 3.8" WVGA screen (again ClearBlack technology), 5 MP camera and a dual-core 1 GHz Krait processor.

All three smartphones are running on the Windows Phone 8 platform.

Thanks, Aswin Bhojarajan for sending this in!

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Samsung launches SAFE Galaxy S III, warms corporate hearts

Now that Samsung has wowed Android fans with the Galaxy S III, it going to try and attract some enterprise users with its new SAFE brand of devices.

 

Standing for Samsung Approved for Enterprise, SAFE is Samsung's go at making Android devices secure enough for corporate users. SAFE devices will offer enterprise tools such as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, support for VPN and Mobile Device Management, and onboard AES-256 bit encryption.

Samsung hopes to further draw enterprise users with its SAFE2SWITCH program, under which corporate customers can trade in their current smartphone for a Galaxy S III.

The first device to boast its SAFE features is the Galaxy S III and it will start rolling out in July in the US for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and US Cellular.

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Max Payne finally launches on Android, $2.99 on Google Play

What more can we say about Max Payne? The dude is badass, and the game is singlehandedly responsible for the introduction of bullet time. Now, you can get the original Max Payne in all its glory on your Android device, for the stupid-low price of $2.99. Of course, there are some optimizations to be had if you own a Tegra device (most notable on Tegra 3), so you Tegra-toting Android owners out there are in for a treat.

Fair warning; you’ll have to download an additional 1.3GB of game data prior to actually being able to play Max Payne, so we recommend you connect to a WiFi connection prior to downloading. Once the download’s away, you will be presented with a Rockstar-made mobile version of the game we’ve all come to know and love over the years.

Seriously, why haven’t you downloaded this yet? Do it, NOW!

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Nokia launches the 41 megapixel 808 PureView in India

Nokia has finally launched the highly anticipated Nokia 808 PureView in India, which as we already know, will be one of the first markets in the world to get the phone.

The phone is priced at ?33,899, which is approximately ?484.5 / $607, making it one of the most expensive Nokia phones in history. Of course, this is the M.R.P. (maximum retail price) and actual price should be a bit less.

Just to recap some of the feature of the phone, the Nokia 808 PureView has a 41 megapixel camera that uses Nokia's PureView technology to combine multiple pixels to create high quality images. It also uses that tech to provide you with up to 3x lossless digital zoom. The camera also has a xenon flash and can record videos in 1080p resolution.

Other features include a 4.0-inch, 640 x 360 resolution AMOLED display, 16GB internal memory with microSD card slot, Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, USB On-the-Go, NFC, HDMI-out, DLNA, Nokia Maps software and Nokia Belle operating system.