The new Nokia flagship smartphone was announced last September 2012 and its called Nokia Lumia 920 which is now available in the Philippines. This will be the best of Lumia line-up running Windows 8 OS, other two Lumia are 820 and 620 model. The Lumia 920 has 4.5-inches display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB RAM and 8.7-megapixel PureView camera. The most noticeable feature of this phone is the PureView camera technology that was first seen in Nokia 808 with 41-megapixel camera. Lumia 920 can capture images with 5x – 10x more light against other smartphones, best in class low-light performance and blur free videos even if the camera is shaking. You can purchase Nokia Lumia 920 for its reasonable price of Php26,990.

Nokia Lumia 920 Specification:

• Dimension 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm
  
• Weight 185 g
• 4.5-inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen (16million colors)
• 768 x 1280 pixel (332 ppi)
• Screen Protection – Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display
• 8.7-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics, Autofocus, Dual-LED flash
• PureView camera Technology
• 1080p video recording @30fps, video stabilization
• 1.3-megapixel Secondary camera 720p @30fps
• Microsoft Windows Phone 8 OS
• 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon Processor
• Adreno 225 GPU
• 1GB RAM
• 32GB internal storage
• 7GB free SkyDrive storage
• Bluetooth ver3.1 with A2DP, EDR
• microUSB ver2.0
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
• 4G LTE
• Accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, compass
• 3.5mm jack – Dolby Headphone sound enhancement
• A-GPS support and GLONASS
• Wireless Charging
• HTML 5, Internet Explorer 10
• Colors: Black, White, Grey, Yellow, and Red
• Non-removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery (BP-4GW)
• SRP P26,990.00

Last month, we saw new Nokia smartphone running a Windows 8 OS for demos only but our most awaited two Nokia Lumia phone are finally available in the Philippines for reasonable prices. My cousin told me about this but he doesn’t know the name of this Nokia model before. We tried to explore this phone before, it has a responsive touch display, great design and screen size and Windows 8 for mobile is really impressive that will make you want to buy it.

Nokia Lumia 820 Specs:

• Size: 123.8 x 68.5 x 9.9 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor
• Adreno 225 GPU
• 4.3-inch AMOLED Clear Black display, 16M colours
• 480 x 800 pixels (217 ppi)
• 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss Optics with dual-LED flash
• VGA front camera
• 1080p @30Fps video recording
• Microsoft Windows Phone 8 OS
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB internal storage, microSD up to 64GB
• 7GB free SkyDrive cloud storage
• HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL
• 4G LTE connectivity (optional)
• NFC Support
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
• GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS
• Bluetooth ver3.1 with A2DP, EDR
• microUSB v2.0
• Accelerometer, gyroscope sensor
• Colors: Black, Gray, Red, Yellow, White, Blue, Violet
• Li-Ion 1650mAh battery with integrated wireless charging
• SRP: Php18,990

Nokia Lumia 620 is the third most affordable handset in its range of Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Thay say that It is always compare to HTC 8S, both phones have pretty similar specs like the dual-core processor, RAM and camera megapixel but the big difference is the price since the Nokia Lumia 620 was just became available recently and has a SRP of Php11,600.

Nokia Lumia 620 Specs:

• Size: 115.4 x 61.1 x 11 mm
  
• Weight: 127 g
• 1GHZ dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor
• Adreno 305 GPU
• 3.8-inch TFT Clear Black display, 16M colours
• 480 x 800 pixels(246 ppi )
• 5-megapixel camera, Autofocus, LED flash
• VGA front facing camera
• 720p @30Fps video recording
• Microsoft Windows Phone 8 OS
• 512MB RAM
• 8GB internal storage, microSD up to 64GB
• Dolby headphone sound enhancement
• HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band
• NFC Support
•  Bluetooth ver3.0 with A2DP, EDR
• microUSB ver2.0
•  GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS
• Accelerometer, proximity, compass
• Lime green, orange, magenta, yellow, cyan, white, black
• Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery
• SRP: Php11,600

Nokia added three handset to their Asha family, Nokia 305, Nokia 306 and Nokia 311. If you notice that these new Nokia Asha are touchscreen unlike their predecessors are using QWERTY keyboard. Nokia Asha 305 and 306 are very similar like a twin but I just want to feature the Asha 306 for some reason.

Nokia Asha 306 has a 3 inches touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, 2G GPRS  mobile data connectivity and it will be the most-affordable Nokia phone with built-in Wi-Fi.

Like the two new phone, Nokia Asha 306 comes with 40 free EA games which is more enjoyable to play in a affordable full touch phone available in 4 different colors; silver white, Red, Mid Blue and Dark Grey. Nokia Asha 305 is expected to be available in the Philippines this quarter but the other two, Asha 306 and 311 will be release in 3rd quarter of this year.

Nokia Asha 306 specification:

• TFT resistive touchscreen, 56K colors
• 3-inch LCD resistive screen
• 240 x 400 pixels, (155 ppi pixel density)
• 2 Megapixels fixed-focus camera
• 64 MB internal storage, microSD up to 32 GB
• Bluetooth v2.1
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Accelerometer
• Nokia Asha Touch OS (S40)
• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Standard battery, Li-Ion 1110 mAh (BL-4U)
• Stand by time up to 600hrs
• Talk time up to 14hrs
• Music play up to 40hrs