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Into phablet and smart phones at low cost. But the real news is Windows RT, on a tablet designed in Espoo. What you put in competition with Microsoft’s Surface

Rome – Nokia migrates to the south, more specifically in Abu Dhabi: from there its former CEO and now vice president preparing to move to Microsoft, Stephen Elop announces to the world six different terminals with Finnish brand, a tablet, phablet two, three so-called feature-phone equipped with the S40 , plus a handful of applications that are expected to boost the company hopes to Espoo and Redmond on the market. Even with an eye to the developers, who have yet to be seduced on the way to Windows Phone.

Care is not going to hurt the sales numbers are encouraging, and Nokia decides to raise: the new Lumia 1520 1320 are two phablet 6 inch that widen since the concepts shown here on devices such as the 920 and 1020, with a larger screen size and, in the case of 1520, with a hardware all ‘height of the specially built other brands. The Asha line, instead, aims to capitalize on the fame and fortunes of Nokia in the lower part of the market: in this case the historical S40 is heavily modified to turn it into a touch OS and equipped with all desirable social extensions.

Nokia Asha 503 and 502 are separated birth: almost indistinguishable visually, with the same colors in the chassis of transparent and colored polycarbonate and details the 3-inch screen, the difference is in the ability connection. The 503 is a 3G handset with 5mpx rear camera and LED flash, and on board there are already the app to connect to Facebook, Twitter, Line, WeChat and Sina Weibo, the 502 is only 2G, but dual-sim: like his brother connects to WiFi and a microSD slot to expand storage, and for the rest there are no special skills to report apart from the classic calendar applications and the like, and the Nokia Xpress Browser to navigate. The 500 is instead an even more savings: 2 megapixel camera, only 2G (but there is still the WiFi), 2.8-inch screen. The price of Nokia Asha 503, 502 and 500 will be respectively 99, 89 and 69 dollars is not exactly the most desirable segment of the market, but it is a sector in which Espoo has always done well guaranteeing a significant percentage of turnover. In the future, however, it is possible that Microsoft may decide to cut this branch from the production company that is preparing to acquire.The Lumia line is another story: the prices (and margins) of the new 1520 and 1320 are placed in the medium-high end of the market, as well as the list of specifications. The Lumia 1520 is in fact the new flagship of the offer: 800 quad-core Snapdragon processor, 2.2 GHz, 2GB RAM, 6-inch FullHD screen (368ppi), LTE connectivity, stabilized camera 20MPx PureView with dual LED flash and f/2.4 Zeiss optics, 32GB storage expandable via microSD. Missing only the sensor of 1020, which remains the ultimate expression of smartphone photo, but otherwise nothing is missing: Windows Phone 8 is upgraded to the latest release (GDR3) that supports the new screen resolution, and the price rises up to 699 euro. Who is looking for a generously sized device without compromise today has one more option to evaluate.

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The 1320 is the second phablet supply, which, however, remains down-to-earth: The CPU is an “old” Snapdragon S4, the RAM down to 1GB and 8GB storage (there is always the microSD slot), the 5mpx camera and the screen resolution down to 1280×720. It is this LTE connectivity, but with these compromises are unable to bring down the price up to $ 399 : a lot of competitive price, because in the package Nokia continues to put a navigation system with maps Here, Office , Nokia Music and all the rest of the outfit software usual. Among the most interesting is the Refocus app, which lets you take a series of photos in sequence to be combined into a single image, so that you can play with the focus in a manner similar (but not identical) to what is already being done with the pictures taken with the Lytro camera. Finally, then, it seems that Instagram is poised to make its official debut on Windows Phone.

Finally, after months and months of anticipation, finally shown to the public the first Nokia tablet : l ‘ They called Lumia 2520, but does not mount but Windows Phone Windows RT (8.1). 10-inch 1080p screen (218ppi), 800 Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, its specifications do not differ that much from those of the Surface 2 RT (there is also the cover-keyboard like that of Microsoft): the main difference compared to the competition in the family (in fact 2520 Surface are the only ARM tablet Windows RT in circulation) is the presence of a slot for the SIM card and 3G-LTE, which combined with a $ 500 price makes it a rather fierce contender to eat the slice (not great) cake Surface RT.

Compared to the corresponding Microsoft, the Nokia tablet seems more devoted to consumer market of those who play and consume multimedia content on the tablet: Espoo might try to take advantage of their popularity to be able to convince customers to purchase more than until now have not decided to buy a Surface RT, leaving the possibility Redmond to continue its business at the high end with the traditional CPU-based Surface Pro x86. Looking ahead, then, if you really would verify the heralded convergence between RT and Windows Phone, Nokia would have a unique operating system on which to base their entire offer: continuing to be a company that produces devices for connectivity and communications on the move, alongside that Microsoft would continue his adventure in the PC world as such.
Luca Annunziata