- New Nokia Lumia 610
provides a younger audience with the perfect introduction to the rich
social, Web and entertainment experience of Windows Phone.
- The Nokia Lumia 900 brings high speed connectivity and a superior content experience to more countries around the world
Barcelona, Spain and Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the next stage in its plans to introduce unique Lumia experiences to more people around the world.
The Nokia Lumia 610 was made possible thanks to a new software release from Microsoft delivering enhanced capabilities to the Windows Phone 7.5 platform. The software release, available from April optimizes Windows Phone to support lower memory and processor requirements, while still delivering the same great experience for more affordable products. In addition, Windows Phone will now include the network and language requirements for China. As a result, Nokia announced plans to make a range of Lumia smartphones available in China, covering both CDMA and WCDMA technologies, in the coming months.
The Lumia range will also benefit from the launch of new signature Nokia experiences on the Windows Phone platform:
- Nokia Reading is the next milestone in Nokia's strategy to offer a comprehensive entertainment experience on Lumia.
Nokia Reading provides a single, integrated hub experience, leveraging a
panorama design to make it easier and faster to enjoy news, ebooks and
audio books, including the ability to access content offline and pin
dynamic content to the start screen as a Live Tile. With an emphasis on
local language materials wherever it becomes available, Nokia Reading
delivers a highly personalized and locally relevant service. Future
updates will include the ability to build dynamic magazines from feeds
for a single integrated view of favourite online content. With no
sign-in or subscriptions, Nokia Reading will be available from April.
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Nokia Transport, coming to Lumia for the first time, provides
convenient door-to-door, underground, tram, suburban train, and bus
directions for over 500 cities across 46 countries. With step-by-step
directions to the nearest station as well as timetable information on
when the next bus or train is arriving for more than 80 cities, Nokia Transport will be available to download from the Windows Phone Marketplace in March.
- A new update to Nokia Drive,
the free voice-guided, turn by turn navigation app that turns any Lumia
smartphone into a personal navigation device will provide full offline
use and features speed limit alerts. The update will also be available
to download from the Windows Phone Marketplace in March.