New
Delhi: Nokia today launched the Lumia 1520 phablet in India at a price of Rs
46,999.
The
device was launched in India a short while ago at an event in Delhi. Apart from
the phone, the company also launched a case for the Lumia 1520 (The CP623) for
a price of Rs 2,999.
The front
cover of the case is flexible. The smartphone will hit the stores from today.
The Lumia 1520 is now the new flagship smartphone for company.
According
to Nokia's India Managing Director P Balaji, Lumia smartphone have done
exceptionally well post Diwali in India. "The 6-inch Lumia 1520 will
expand our portfolio significantly," he said in a press release.
The Lumia
1520 is the first phablet from Nokia and has a 6-inch screen with a full HD
(1920x1080 pixels) resolution . It also comes with a 20 megapixel rear camera
with Nokia's PureView technology with Dual LED flash.
It also
has a 1.2 MP camera on the front panel for video calls. The phone has a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor clocked at 2.2 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM.
It comes
with 32 GB memory space, a microSD card slot with an upper limit of 64 GB. It
has a 3400 mAh battery. Nokia is promising 27.4 hours of maximum talk time on
2G and 25.1 hours of talktime on 3G.
It also
has 4 microphones for ensuring best audio when you’re recording videos. Nokia
is also offering 7 GB free Sky Drive cloud storage space free with the phone.
It is
also giving users a lifetime license for Microsoft Office suite. The company
was also expected to launch the Nokia Lumia 1320 at the event, but did not do
so.
According
to Vipul Mehrotra, the Director for Smartphone Devices at Nokia India, Middle
East and Africa, the Lumia 1320 would be launched in India soon. The Lumia 1320
is also a six-inch screen device with an HD screen at a resolution of 1280 x
720 pixels. The smartphone has 5 megapixel with LED flash. It has 0.3 mp VGA
camera on the front. The smartphone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core
processor which is clocked at 1.7 GHz.
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