0 Nokia launches Lumia 920 and 820 in India

Nokia has announced the availability of its first Windows Phone 8 powered devices in India. The Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 will be available from tomorrow in select cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Calcutta. They will be made available in the rest of the country in the due course of time.

The Lumia 920 has an MRP of Rs. 38,999. It is designed with a polycarbonate shell, and come with PureView technology, however, without the massive sensor of the original 41MP Nokia 808 PureView(despite the 920 being 10.7mm thick). It instead houses an 8.7MP camera with an LED 'pulse burst flash', which is capable of 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps. It features floating lens technology, which supposedly rivals the optical image stabilization (OIS) of DLSRs, and enables the sensor to capture more than 5-10 times the light of regular smartphone cameras.

The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch curved glass IPS LCD display, which with Nokia’s PureMotion HD+ technology, delivers a “better than HD resolution” of 1,280x768 pixels (WXGA). The touchscreen will also be navigable with gloves on. The Lumia 920 supports wireless charging with Qi interoperability standards.

Other specifications of the Lumia 920 include 1.3MP front facing camera with 720p HD video recording, a weight of 185 grams, and a 2,000 mAh battery rated to deliver up to 17 hours of talktime, and 400 hours of standby time. It will surprisingly not come with a microSD card slot.

The 9.9mm-thick Nokia Lumia 820 has an MRP of Rs. 27,559 and is almost identical on the specs sheet, except for a smaller 4.3-inch 800x480 pixel AMOLED display, and the lack of a PureView camera - 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash instead (also capable of 1080p HD video recording), coupled with front-facing VGA camera.

The Lumia 820 also supports wireless charging, when coupled with a removable shell case, which will ship with the device. It also has a smaller 1,650 mAh battery that’s rated to deliver up to 14 hours of talktime, and 330 hours of standby time. Unlike the Lumia 920, it supports a microSD card slot, up to 32GB.

Nokia also announced an exclusive tie up with JBL for a dock. The dock supports conductive charging for the smartphone along with the ability to play music stored on the phone with the tab of a button. The smartphone doesn’t have to be docked to play the music.