Nokia launches four phones and more at MWC

Published by Ian Delaney on February 25, 2013

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Nokia is pushing high-end innovation to new price points, with four product launches that enrich the portfolio and make our phones available to a host of new customers. The new devices include our most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone and our lowest-priced mobile phone. Feature-rich across the bunch, their quality, robustness and unique design make each of these new devices compelling in its own right.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said:

“The momentum behind Nokia is gathering pace. The launches today reflect our commitment to broadening our devices and services portfolio to meet the demands of people and businesses around the globe.”

Now let’s take a quick look at each of the new launches – click through on each subtitle to get the in-depth story. In no particular order,

Nokia Lumia 720

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The Lumia 720 is a sleek, stylish smartphone that’s destined for the hands of socialites. Light in weight, but no lightweight, it has, we believe, the best camera experience of any midrange smartphone. That includes an f/1.9 aperture that beats most high-end cameras, combined with our exclusive Carl Zeiss optics usually reserved for our flagships. It also offers our best front-facing camera performance. With music, HERE location services, NFC and the option of adding snap on wireless charging covers, it’s a lot of phone for this price.

Learn more about the Nokia Lumia 720 in this post.

Nokia Lumia 520

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With the Lumia 520, our most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone, we are bringing a high-end smartphone experience within range of more people than ever before. With a super sensitive touch four inch display, camera lenses, exchangeable shells and Nokia’s unique music and navigation services you get many of the same Lumia experiences that were previously available only on high-end devices.

Read more about the Nokia Lumia 520 in the full article.

Nokia 105

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The Nokia 105 is our most affordable mobile phone, offering exceptional value to new mobile buyers at just €15. It’s a great introduction to Nokia’s quality, style and dependability, with a terrific battery life and good looks too. It’s no one-trick pony either, with an FM radio, flashlight, colour screen and support for the Nokia Life service.

Get more details about the Nokia 105 here.

Nokia 301

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Finally, we have has set about reinventing the feature phone for 2013 with the Nokia 301. It marries the much-loved traditional ‘candybar’ format with the design approach and colour palette that’s become familiar on Lumia smartphones. It’s full-featured, too, with the Xpress Browser, a smart 3.2-megapixel camera, with features inspired by our Nokia digital lenses, Microsoft Exchange compatibility and a full complement of social apps on tap.

Find out all about the Nokia Lumia 301 in this post.

But it’s not just about the phones. We are also delighted to announce new service offerings and partnerships. We’ll be covering these in more detail across the week.

  • HERE branches out. As well as planning some new features for HERE apps on Lumia, we will also make HERE available for other Windows Phones in select markets. The platform will also be licensed to Mozilla for the Firefox OS.
  • App experience. We’re also unveiling a series of new and improved apps, including a bigger and better version of Cinemagraph, a new Place Tag lens (powered by LiveSight) and a Glam-Me camera app.
  • For third party apps, we’ve been opening up our imaging, location and music APIs so that developers like Burton, GoPro and Foursquare can build exclusive apps for Lumia, while co-operation with DreamWorks promises some exciting ‘virtual entertainment experiences’ later in the year.
  • There’s a whole bunch of new third party apps as well for both Lumia and Asha, all of which have been built from the ground up to take advantage of the unique features of the platform.

Breathless yet? We’re camped-out right here in Barcelona at MWC and will bring you even more details and the latest news as it happens across the week.

Comments

  • thomas legg

    i like it

    • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Adam Fraser

      Which one, Thomas?

  • redboy8

    is there is any difference in design of nokia lumia 520 and 620 .

    • Thorsten Hindermann

      For Exempel no NFC on board.

    • Diazene

      of course, it’s really easy to see the difference

  • http://twitter.com/syakniVIN Alvin Sahagun

    I’m in love with the Lumia 720. :)) It looks so adorable.

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      I just got my hands on the real thing today. It’s amazing what they have been able to do with the phone.

      • http://twitter.com/syakniVIN Alvin Sahagun

        hopefully I can touch it also with my hands pretty soon!

  • http://twitter.com/mikeday1983 Mike Day

    Wow, Nokia have become no more than the manufacturers of Android devices. Just clones of their other devices with no innovation, no major differentiation but on an OS that isn’t even well established. Without innovation you can’t compete with Android and IOS. What a complete disappointment.

    • http://www.facebook.com/nirwan.rahul Rahul Nirwan

      Dude you cant compare nokia with android manufacturers. When you consider samsung and its cheap phones, they are plastic with some hardware. On the other hand, nokia doesnt compromise on the hardware aspect of the phone. Also, windows 8 is developing and a few more updates would make it more efficient.

      • http://twitter.com/mikeday1983 Mike Day

        The point I am making is that Nokia is churning out virtually the same WP device in only slightly varying forms with no major diffentiation. I get bored of seeing boring, cloned Android devices all looking about the same with similar specs and no true innovation. However the manufacturers doing that (mainly Samsung) suceed because they are on a well established platform. WP needs to compete at the top end first to be sucessful

        • http://ademas.web.id/ Ademas

          So, what do you want? Nokia only releasing 1 phone each year like iPhone?

  • http://twitter.com/mikeday1983 Mike Day

    Elop is a clown. Nokia’s troubles have never been at the low end. Its the high end competition they have struggled with and for the Lumia 920 to still be the flagship is just so poor. Where is the new tech, the new innovation, the essence of Nokia is Dead!

    • sri_tech

      Are you expecting another flagship when 920 is just launched 4 months ago.

      920 is more innovative than all the phones that are released in 2012.

      1. First phone to have super sensitive touch screen (works with gloves).
      2. Display with fast refresh rate.
      3. Wireless charging built in.
      4. Optical image stabilization for camera.
      5. Great pictures in low light without flash.

      Tell me one phone which has so many new features than 920.

      All other flagships are either bumped up specs or slimmed down profile.

      • http://twitter.com/mikeday1983 Mike Day

        I agree with all of your points but I am an 808 user and the Lumia 920 still doesn’t come close to its functions, depsite all of that innovation.

        • http://ademas.web.id/ Ademas

          Oh really?

          • http://www.facebook.com/krishna.lalwani Krishna Lalwani

            yes!

          • http://about.me/Ademas Ademas

            Yay!

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000112069212 Muhammad Kharismawan

          A… so you’re just disappointed because EOS wasn’t launched yesterday… Me too.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003635518214 Gustav Christensson

        The 920 came in as flagship and replaced the hardly old 900. The 900 came in Italy in June. 3 months later it wasn’t flagship anymore.

      • VijaySisodia

        Nokia lumia 920 is a great great device, no doubt about it. What it lacks is(for that matter any windows 8 device) is apps. They say that they have 46 of top 50 apps found on android and iOS. No doubt about that too but quality of apps is what matters the most. For example take Twitter app on windows 8. It’s looks good but lacks functionality. In other platforms you can open pictures, links, videos in the app itself. In windows version of app, it opens Internet explorer for every link you click. It becomes very annoying. Same is the case with Facebook, YouTube and other default apps and you can’t even buy superior apps as there aren’t any. You don’t have a freedom of choice either. Internet explorer is okay but you can’t even compare it with feature rich google chrome on other platform. They don’t even have a feature rich PDF reader ,a photo editor or a video editor even if you are ready to pay for it.(again adobe reader and Nokia creative studio are okay but not awesome.) The list goes on and on. Nokia has made a heck of a device in 920, don’t want to take anything away from them but their choice of operating system is a mistake. Imagine Nokia 920 running android Jelly Bean, it would have blown galaxy s3′s out of competition. Nokia is doing a great work but they’ll never succeed until and unless they solve the problem of apps in there choice of ecosystem. Just having 46 of 50 apps is not enough.

    • brownbox

      “Nokia’s troubles have never been at the low end.”

      implying what? That Nokia should stop launching new low end phones? huh?

      “Its the high end competition they have struggled with and for the Lumia 920 to still be the flagship is just so poor”

      The Lumia 920 was only launched 4 months ago. What’s “poor” about it?

      “the essence of Nokia is Dead!”
      You just said nokia has always been good with low end devices and has always struggled with high end devices. Then you argue that Nokia currently making (good?) low end devices while you criticize their high end devices and imply that that means “the essence of Nokia is Dead!”, even though they are apparently acting like they always have by your own logic.

      • disqus_aRxcIbZop6

        What i believe Mike means by saying that “the essence of NOKIA is Dead” is that the innovative edge, that competitive juice that it had is pretty much gone, certainly in the smartphone market. Yes, NOKIA’s low-end feature phones are its core (essence) and continues to be enjoy a healthy market share in India n other emerging countries. But feature phones are not relevant here. Smartphones are. 600+M were sold last year–cpl years ago it was 180M. And in this relevant market, what has NOKIA offered? Well, an LBS based HERE offering, which many would view as older, established technology, plus camera/lense capabilities (and 3D printing contest, lets not forget to mention) that seems to be technology for its sake with little social/consumer adoption implications. It has also further fragmentated its smartphone platform w/ inconsistent availability n created further confusion of its many higher end phone models–something that got it in trouble in the first place.

    • http://twitter.com/BVangenechten Ben Vangenechten

      Please, the 920 isnt even out yet. In freaking Belgium, we lay in the center of the European union. Its not like we are a country with people that can barely afford phones like that. Also, they should keep just 1 new flagship phone per year. Otherwise they woill be outdated to fast and that won’t help them because that makes people sad and they go to apple etc.

  • http://twitter.com/hama_dila hama

    im so totally disappointed , i was looking forward for the next flagship windows phone :(

  • mealsowalkdogs

    I totally LIKE the new Lumia 720! Can’t wait to see it in stock!

  • http://twitter.com/Hdrules Hradayesh Nimavat

    Lumia 720 looks best….

  • Thorsten Hindermann

    Sounds good :D

  • http://www.geekchoice.com/washington-dc Dagmar Schneitz

    I might have to get Nokia 720 as a social travel phone. I can use that one for nights out, traveling, or for major family and social events. I can use Nokia 105 for every day use, from business calls to getting my FM news/music fix. I’m wondering if there was a way to get two of these phones for a bundle discount or something.

  • Heaven

    Does lumia 720 have changeable shells just like 520 ?
    Is the battery removable for 720 ?

    • Thorsten Hindermann

      The 720 has an Unibody.

  • Guest

    Can’t wait to see it in Argentina. Great design!

  • Thorsten Hindermann

    From the new phones I like the 520, but in real life I want to shoot the 620 ;-). For me it has the best Price/effort balance.

  • http://metin2wiki.ru CSRedRat

    Great!

  • xnay

    To Nokia designers: have you ever heard about a thing called “notification LED” and why it’s important in today’s devices?

    Besides that: congratulations, great devices, but LED is really needed.

  • James Hoe

    6 months ago when I started using Lumia 710, it just made me feel very satisfied! Today, I know it is about time to make a new experience with Lumia 720, Lumia 730….

  • http://twitter.com/aghils Aghil V Ravindran

    What really worries me is its availability! If it comes anymore late then all the efforts taken by Nokia will go in vain…please Nokia bring it out soon, in India (720).

  • the1beard

    Finally, we have has set about reinventing the feature phone for 2013 with the Nokia 301. It marries the much-loved traditional ‘candybar’
    ABOUT TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1