Nokia Pushes Lumia 800 with Price Cut to Rs 18,867, Also Retailing Along with Free Nokia Purity Headset

| Updated: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 16:50 [IST]

This festive season is turning exciting with each passing day, as more and more tech consumer goods manufacture are offering great discount deals on their devices to take full advantage of the occasions lined up in India. Nokia is definitely leaving no stone unturned to benefit its consumer's base. Finnish handset vendor has recently announced a price cut again of around Rs 5000 on its Nokia Lumia Windows handset.

The model is now available for purchase on Saholic at Rs 18,867. Also on another online shopping site BuyThePrice.com, the Lumia 800 handset is being offered at a lesser price of Rs18,449 along with free Nokia Purity Headset by Monster worth Rs 5,110.

Tech experts believe, this was actually on cards as Nokia launched their cheapest model, Lumia 510 in India a few days back. Following the same lines, recently HTC and LG had also announced similar price cuts for their HTC One S, Desire V and also Optimus 4X HD models.

Post complaints from customers on over pricing and also software glitches, Nokia Lumia got the first price cut in March earlier this year to Rs 23,790. This is the second price cut for Nokia Lumia and it has been a substantial one too. It seems Nokia is desperate to penetrate the Windows phone market in India with these Lumia models. Earlier in June, Nokia has also brought in software update for Lumia 800 model, which fixed glitches which were reported earlier.

Reportedly, the software update allowed users to share 3G data connection over Wi-Fi with other devices. It also introduced a feature, flip to silence that allowed users to mute all the incoming calls by just flipping the phone around.

Key features of Lumia 800 model

Windows 7.5 OS

Polycarbonate unibody design

1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

512 MB system RAM

8 MP Camera with Carl Zeiss optics technology

16 GB internal storage

Nokia lovers, this may be a good opportunity for you to grab an advanced Windows phone at this aggressive price tag. However, on the other side there may be new interesting Windows phone models at a much lesser price range coming soon. Need to take a decision as a trade off!