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Nokia Lumia 610 takes Windows Phone to new places
davidjstone | 28 February, 2012 11:22
We are proud to present a great new target for your Windows Phone apps - the Nokia Lumia 610 - announced at Mobile World Congress yesterday.
Aimed at young people who want an affordable introduction to Lumia and Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 610 provides easy access to social networks, web browsing, music, games, navigation and tens of thousands of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. It comes in four vibrant colors and will cost just EUR 189, before taxes or subsidies, and is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2012.
The fourth Nokia Lumia means more opportunity to developers, particularly given its barrier-breaking price point. Its distinctive profile and finely beveled metallic edges are built to convey quality and aspiration.
It offers a 3.7” TFT LCD display, with the same 800 x 480 pixel (WVGA) resolution found across the Lumia range and a 5MP camera wrapped in the iconic industrial design for which Lumia is becoming renowned.
It also offers A-GPS and an enhanced Adreno 200 GPU, to deliver the rich Windows Phone and apps experience to more consumers.The key to the Nokia Lumia 610 delivering Windows Phone to new places and new people is a new software release from Microsoft that delivers enhanced capabilities to the Windows Phone 7.5 platform. The software release, available from April, optimises Windows Phone to support lower memory and processor requirements, while still delivering the same great experience for more affordable products.
The Nokia Lumia 610 features an 880 MHz QC MSM7227A processor and 256 Mb of RAM. This baseline spec, combined with other smart component choices, significantly reduces the cost of the Nokia Lumia 610 without compromising consumer experience.
Nokia Lumia 610 specs
More tools
To help you prepare your apps for the Nokia Lumia 610, there is a technical preview available of an SDK update to the Windows Phone SDK . This update gives you access to the 256Mb emulator to let you determine how your apps run and install on lower memory devices. Note that the preview does not include a 'go live' license, so you can not publish apps created with it. A final version of the SDK, with 'go live' licence, is expected next month.
Learn more about the development tools, including the technical preview of the updated Windows Phone SDK
Best practices for 256MB
The Nokia Lumia 610 will offer users the same rich Windows Phone experience found across the Nokia Lumia range, but it does so using less memory – which does mean less memory available to your apps. To help, our Principal Engineer Windows Phone Justin Angel has prepared some best practice guidelines for delivering apps to 256MB Windows Phones.
More markets, more marketplace
As the Nokia Lumia 610 will bring the amazing Windows Phone experience to new markets and people, you won’t be surprised to learn that the Windows Phone Marketplace is also expanding. Five new countries — Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines — have been added already and many more will follow during the rest of 2012. With more markets, more currencies, and more languages supported your Nokia Lumia opportunity in 2012 will be greater than ever.
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