The latest smartphone (announced 2 April) from Nokia has a large 5-inch HD display and features a 20MP camera as well as wireless charging. The design has been refreshed with new colours – orange, bright green, black and white – and has an aluminium frame and polycarbonate back.
Under the hood, there is a powerful quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 32GB internal storage and 2GB RAM. It also has a 2 420mAh battery, which Nokia claims gives you up to 15.5 hours of talk time.
Nokia also announced two lower-cost Lumias, which are also built on Windows 8.1: the 4.5-inch Lumia 630 and Lumia 635.
The Windows Phone 8.1 mobile operating system, which will also be available as an update to Lumias running Windows 8, introduces some new features such as:
The Nokia Lumia 630 will become available from May 2014 in Asia, India/Middle East, South America and Europe and the 635 later in the year. The Nokia Lumia 930 will become available from June 2014 – launching in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and India first. No details are available at this stage regarding South Africa.