Microsoft has something for us: Lumia 830 and Lumia 730/735

Microsoft rolls out 3 different Lumia smartphones at IFA 2014. Nokia Lumia 830 is so-called affordable flagship and Lumia 735 is advertised as selfie-friendly whereas Lumia 730 is dual-sim vairant of Lumia 735 which will be offered in select markets. These three smartphones will roll out this month.

Nokia Lumia 830, also known for affordable flagship comes at price of $433 and comes with following specifications: 

• 5″ 1280*720p display
• 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor
• 16GB internal storage
• 1GB of RAM
• 2200 mAh removable battery
• comes at 8.5mm thick and weighs 150g
• Windows Phone 8.1

 

Nokia Lumia 735 comes with price tag of $288 and has following specifications:

• 4.7″ 1280*720p display
• 1.2GHz quad-core snapdragon processor
• 8GB internal storage
• 1GB of RAM
• 2200 mAh removable battery
• comes at 8.9mm thick and weighs 134.3g
• Windows Phone 8.1

It also support wireless charging and screencasting acessories.

 

Here Maps of Nokia coming to Samsung’s Android Smartphone

 Nokia’s smartphone division is now fully acquired by Microsoft. Then again, it has some parts not sold to Microsoft that include apps like Here Maps which really competes with Google Maps. It excels from Google Maps in some areas like offline maps which is currently available in 95 countires, LiveSight which lets users follow virtual signs on screen and navigate to places. This application of Nokia is now coming to Android powered Samsung Smartphones.

Samsung and Nokia partnered up to implement Here Maps on Android powered devices. We can see Here Maps beta to be ported to Galaxy phones sometime in October when 3G enabled Gear S smartwatch goes on sale. Not only that, Nokia further says that this app will come to other Android devices as soon as this year ending.