First reactions to Nokia Lumia

Published by Trevor Davies on October 26, 2011

The crowds gather at Nokia World

LONDON, United Kingdom – First reactions to the keynote presentation today at Nokia World 2011 were broadly positive.

As more than 3,000 delegates poured out of the presentation area for a first hands-on with the new Lumia and Asha phones, Nokia Conversations got some first impressions from the delegates.

Rash Sahota, VP General Manager of Wolfson Microlectronics, said: “The Lumia looks very sexy, with a good set of features and could do very well in the market place.”

Etienne Van den Bogaert, of software company SCCP, said: “The speech was inspiring about maps and services. It was a very strong message.”

“The Lumia is very light and smooth, a great combination of the N9 design and the best of Windows Phone.”

 Nokia Lumia 800 with Maps

Tech journalists were a little more divided.

Stuart Miles of tech site Pocket-Lint said of the new Lumia: “It’s a lot better than other Windows Phones out there. It’s an agitator.”

But we can’t please everyone. Kat Hannaford, of tech site Gizmodo UK was “quite unimpressed”. “I was expecting more features, especially considering Nokia’s relationship with Microsoft.”

Things heat up in the demo area

Overall, people were very impressed with both the Asha and the Lumia range.

In the demo area we spoke to Nokia brand managers Martin Grosse and Zak Klegon.

Zak said:”I’m really, really excited about both the new mobiles and smartphones. 

“Asha is a really aspirational product for the next billion users. 

“And I can’t wait to get my hands on the Lumia.”

Martin said: “I feel pride and confidence to see all this. To think that the brand has renewed in just eight months gives me a good feeling.”

Comments

  • Anonymous

    Why only 16GB??? Why not a 32 and 64GB versions? All of the WP7 phones have only 16GB or less. That’s just dumb when you can get other Nokia phones, iPhones and Android phones with more memory than that. What gives? I was waiting for a phone that would be features equivalent to the N9 but no… I’ll be getting a 64GB black N9.

    • http://twitter.com/KaizerAllen Kaizer Allen

      There’s nothing to worry about, mate. You get a 16 GB of internal memory, plus a 25 GB worth of free SkyDrive space. What about that! That’s hilarious. You can’t even use that all!

      • Anonymous

        You would be surprised. My 64gb ipod touch is almost full because 1/3 of that space is used up by apps, the rest is my entire music library, audio and video podcasts. My samsung focus with 40Gb is almost full for the same reasons. And I can’t afford to go ever my 2GB/month limit because I had to store some stuff in the cloud as my phone didn’t have enough memory to have it there.

  • Anonymous

    Why only 16GB??? Why not a 32 and 64GB versions? All of the WP7 phones have only 16GB or less. That’s just dumb when you can get other Nokia phones, iPhones and Android phones with more memory than that. What gives? I was waiting for a phone that would be features equivalent to the N9 but no… I’ll be getting a 64GB black N9.

  • Anonymous

    Why only 16GB??? Why not a 32 and 64GB versions? All of the WP7 phones have only 16GB or less. That’s just dumb when you can get other Nokia phones, iPhones and Android phones with more memory than that. What gives? I was waiting for a phone that would be features equivalent to the N9 but no… I’ll be getting a 64GB black N9.

  • http://unlockworldwide.com John

    No front facing camera? If you really want to compete against the best, you need to least match the features that the consumer already deems as a given. 

    John
    UnlockWorldwide

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