Video: Explore the world with Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8 .

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Video: Explore the world with Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8.   

Nokia is showing differents features on the Lumia smartphones family:

Every day in every city around the world, people are pursuing their own adventures, big or small. 

Explore New York, Beijing and London with the new Nokia Lumia family. 

Discover the new Lumia family: http://nokia.ly/VdbolR

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China Unicom to launch Windows Phone devices.

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China Unicom to launch Windows Phone devices.

China Unicom has just signed an agreement with Microsoft for the distribution of  Windows  smartphones, not  specific launch dates have been provided  yet.

The agreement is said to be part of a larger alliance aimed at boosting sales of Windows-based mobile phones in the country and which also involves seven mobile phone makers, including Nokia, HTC Corporation and Samsung, as well as chip makers such as Qualcomm.

This week, the first Windows Phone 8 handsets were launched in the country, coming from HTC and Nokia, namely the Windows Phone 8X and 8S and Lumia 920. 

Both of the new Windows Phone 8 devices coming from HTC arrive on shelves with support for China Unicom’s 3G network, it seems. 

“As more mobile phone vendors start selling Windows Phone devices, it demonstrated that Nokia made a very bright choice at the very beginning,” said Gustavo Eichelmann, Nokia China chief reportedly said. 

China Unicom has over 70 million subscribers at the moment, and will focus on promoting devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows platform. 

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Video: Nokia introduces the Lumia 620, Windows Phone 8 smartphone.

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Video: Nokia introduces the Lumia 620, Windows Phone 8 smartphone.

• Display

  • Display size: 3.8 ''
  • Display technology: LCD, ClearBlack 

• Photography

  • Primary camera sensor size: 5.0 megapixels

• Power Management

  • Maximum 2G talk time: 14.6 h
  • Maximum 3G talk time: 9.9 h
  • Maximum 3G standby time: 330 h
  • Music playback time: 61 h

• Processor

  • Processor name: Snapdragon™ S4 
  • Processor type: Dual-core 1.0GHz
    
     

Nokia Lumia 620: http://nokia.ly/R6EBEb smart, inside and out. Turn smiles into laughs with Cinemagraph, capture the perfect group shot with Smart Shoot, and make double the impact with dual-colour changeable shells.

Nokia's third and most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone offers youthful appeal

Espoo, Finland and Paris, France - Nokia today introduced the Nokia Lumia 620, the third and most affordable in its range of Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Alongside the flagship Nokia Lumia 920 and mid-range Nokia Lumia 820, the Nokia Lumia 620 offers a more fun, youthful appeal, and compact design. 

The Nokia Lumia 620 uses a new dual-shot color technique to deliver a variety of striking color and texture effects. Dual-shot adds a second layer of colored, transparent or translucent polycarbonate on top of a base layer to produce secondary color blends and depth effects.  With seven different exchangeable shells to choose from, people can adapt the look of their Nokia Lumia 620 to their own personal taste and style.

"We continue to execute on our strategy to reach new audiences and new markets," said Jo Harlow, executive vice president, Nokia Smart Devices. "With its innovative design, the latest Windows Phone 8 software and signature experiences from Nokia, like Nokia lenses, Nokia Maps and Nokia Music, the Nokia Lumia 620 is a highly competitive smartphone at this price point." 

Among the features shared with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 are exclusive camera lenses that transform the creative power of the Nokia Lumia 620's five megapixel main camera and VGA front-facing camera. The Cinemagraph lens adds simple animations to still photographs, while Smart Shoot creates a single, perfect shot from multiple images, even removing unwanted objects from the picture.

The Nokia Lumia 620 also provides access to the world's best maps and location experience, including Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and the exclusive Nokia City Lens. Nokia City Lens displays information about local surroundings overlaid onto buildings as seen through the camera viewfinder.

Making it easy to discover and enjoy new music, Nokia Music provides free streaming of ad-free tracks without registration or subscription and the ability to download playlists for listening offline.

With NFC support, the Nokia Lumia 620 can easily pair with NFC-enabled accessories like the JBL PlayUp Portable Speaker for Nokia. Open and secure NFC-connectivity makes it possible to share and receive content by tapping with compatible devices, or make secure payments using the Wallet application in Windows Phone 8.

Powered by Windows Phone 8, the Nokia Lumia 620 delivers a more personal smartphone experience. Adjustable Live Tiles update direct to the Start Screen. People Hub pulls together contact information from multiple address books and social networks into a single location, making it easy to stay in touch with friends and set up contact Groups and private Rooms for sharing. From the Me Tile people can check in to their location, post an update, set chat status, see what's new and monitor notifications across Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.  Windows Phone 8 also includes Xbox Live, Microsoft Office, 7GB of online SkyDrive storage and faster, safer surfing with Internet Explorer 10.

These features and capabilities are enabled by Qualcomm's Snapdragon(TM) S4 Plus processors.

"People can do more of the things they love when they choose a mobile device that has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor," said Enrico Salvatori, senior vice president and president of Qualcomm Europe. "The Snapdragon S4 Plus processor is the heart of the Nokia Lumia 620, making it possible to multi-task, stream in HD and share content at super-fast speeds."

The Nokia Lumia 620 will be available in a range of colors* including, lime green, orange, magenta, yellow, cyan, white and black. Estimated at USD 249, excluding taxes and subsidies, the Nokia Lumia 620 will begin selling in January 2013 in Asia, followed closely by Europe and the Middle East before expanding further.

* Availability of colored shells may vary by country.

	Nokia Lumia 620
Operating System	Windows Phone 8
Display	3.8-inch TFT WVGA 800x480 ClearBlack
Battery	1300 mAh
Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon(TM) S4 processor with 1 Ghz dual-core CPUs
Camera	Main: 5MP Autofocus, LED flash  Front-facing camera: VGA
Memory	512MB RAM 8GB mass memory (Micro SD support up to 64GB) 7GB free Microsoft SkyDrive storage

About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia's technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia.  

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Windows Phone 8 features details.

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Windows Phone 8 features details.

Microsoft officially unveiled its Windows Phone 8 platform yesterday, a device operating system that is set to power new smartphones from Nokia, HTC and Samsung. While the platform was previewed in June 2012, the company used an event yesterday to showcase several new features that have not previously been revealed.

It also provided an update on its app ecosystem, stating that it is approaching the point where 46 out of the top 50 titles available for other platforms have been ported to Windows Phone – which Joe Belfiore, corporate VP for the company, described as “huge progress for us”.

New features showcased by Belfiore included “Kid’s Corner”, which it describes as a “worry-free way to share your phone with your kids” by limiting the features available to prevent accidental misuse; and Rooms, which enables users to create private groups with which to share information – with some features also made available to users of smartphones powered by other OS platforms.

Also new is Data Sense, which uses compression to minimise the amount of data transferred; offloads data to Wi-Fi where appropriate; and adjusts usage when nearing data bundle limits.

Belfiore said that this feature will be made available in partnership with mobile operator partners, and is “rolling out with mobile operators starting with our [November] launch and going into 2013”. The first named operator supporting it is Verizon Wireless.

Windows Phone 8 is also being positioned as “the perfect companion for your Windows devices and your Xbox”, in partnership with the Skydrive cloud storage platform. This will enable users to share images, video and music between different terminals, with Belfiore adding that “it’s the first cloud service that fully integrates and syncs your Office documents, so you can access them from any of your devices”.

As with the earlier Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5 platforms, the latest version of the platform centres around a “tiles” interface, which can be used to push personal information to the home screen of the device. These can also be used by app developers to deliver content, and information can now also be pushed to the device’s lock screen.

Belfiore noted: “I would say that the state of the art in the core smartphone experience hasn’t really evolved much in the five years since its inception. If you think about the predominant user experience on most of the smartphones people are using today, it was standardised by Apple and the iPhone, and essentially that same interface was copied by Android and Android phones, and it really hasn’t evolved all that much. The static grid of icons has been the standard on smartphones.”

Devices powered by Windows Phone 8 are set for launch next month. In a US-focused release, it was said that “major mobile operators will start selling Windows Phone 8 in the coming weeks”, with Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA on board.

Microsoft was less forthcoming on the rollout plans for international markets.

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Windows Phone 8 Video takes on the iPhone and Androids.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Windows Phone 8 Video takes on the iPhone and Androids.

On this video the presenter is emphasizing the difference between a windows phone with live tiles and a static start screen of the iphones and the androids. He also let you know how to set up your live tiles.

See how personal Windows Phone 8 is with it's new Start screen, Live Apps, and more. 

From the customizable Start screen that includes Live Apps that give you real-time information at a glance to the Windows Phone Store that now includes 120,000 Microsoft-certified apps — Joe Belfiore, Corporate VP of Windows Phone, shows there's a lot to love about Windows Phone 8.

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Meet Steve Ballmer. See his Windows Phone. Video Promo.

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Meet Steve Ballmer. See his Windows Phone. Video Promo.



What makes Windows Phone, Steve's phone? Find out from Steve Ballmer and check out the Live Apps he uses most on his Start screen.

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