As Android powered mobile handsets conquer the market, Nokia unveils their last hope, or hopes – Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Both Nokia Lumia mobile handsets apparently compete with Android powered handsets and are cool looking smartphones powered by Microsoft Windows phone 7.5 Mango Operating systems.

Key features of Nokia Lumia 800

• GSM handset

• 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm dimensions

• 142 grams

• 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive Multi touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution

• Gorilla glass display

• Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset

• 1.4 GHz Scorpion Processor and Adreno 205 Graphics Processing Unit

• 512 MB RAM

• 16 GB Internal storage

• Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

• Accelerometer and Proximity sensors

• GPS feature with A-GPS support

• Li 1450 mAh battery

• GPRS and EDGE support

• 3G Internet Connectivity support

• 802.11 b/g/n WiFi connectivity support

• A2DP enabled v2.1 Bluetooth

• 8 Megapixel dual LED flash camera with Carl Zeiss optics and max resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels

• 720p HD video recording

Key features of Nokia Lumia 710

• GSM handset

• 119 x 62.4 x 12.5 mm dimensions

• 125.5 grams

• 3.7 inch TFT capacitive Multi touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution

• Gorilla glass display

• Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset

• 1.4 GHz Scorpion Processor and Adreno 205 Graphics Processing Unit

• 512 MB RAM

• 8 GB Internal storage

• Accelerometer and Proximity sensors

• GPRS and EDGE support

• 3G Internet Connectivity support

• 802.11 b/g/n WiFi connectivity support

• GPS feature with A-GPS support

• 5 Megapixel LED flash camera with a max resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels; Autofocus enabled

• 720p HD video recording

• Li ion 1300 mAh battery

These are the key features of the new Nokia Lumia handsets. Both handsets have many features in common, such as the chipset, processing units, graphics processing units, RAM etc. The significant difference is in the camera specifications with Nokia Lumia 800 having an 8 Megapixel camera while Nokia Lumia 710 sports only a 5 Megapixel one. Reportedly, both handsets lack secondary camera meaning no video conference. But both smartphones offer recording videos with 720p HD quality.

Both Nokia Lumia smartphones come with WAP 2.0 Browsers and GPS. Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is a common operating system in Lumia 800 and 710. Reportedly, Nokia Lumia 710, the bigger yet lighter one among the two, comes in a number of attractive colours. Nokia Lumia 800, quite big weighing about 142 grams, comes in 3 colours – Black, Cyan and Magenta. Both smartphones offer quite decent talk time in both 2G and 3G networks.

Price details as per information obtained by GSMArena claims that Nokia Lumia 800 has a price tag of Rs 30,000/- approximately in India while Nokia Lumia 710 will be priced Rs 19,000/- approximately in India.  Nokia has high hopes for both handsets which already have great publicity, considering the fact that Nokia has made a lot of larger than life promotion events.

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