The AT&T Nokia Lumia 820 price and release date details have gone official and the Windows Phone 8 contender tries not to dig a huge hole in users’ pockets. The other Microsoft-certified devices launched by this carrier include the Lumia 920 and HTC 8X along with the Windows 8-based Ativ Smart PC.
The handset takes inspiration from other Lumia smartphones to adopt a stylish design and enhanced hardware with improved imaging capabilities. Enclosed in a black-colored chassis with dimensions of 123.8 x 68.5 x 9.9 millimeters, the device that weighs 160 grams supports a 4.3-inch touchscreen on its front panel. This AMOLED ClearBlack capacitive multi-touch display of 15:9 aspect ratio, is reinforced with Corning Gorilla Glass to protect it from scratches.
Furthermore, the screen has been deployed with sunlight readability enhancement and high brightness mode in addition to polarization filter. Images are rendered in 800 x 480p resolution. The front panel of the Lumia 820 has a webcam of 640 x 480p resolution to facilitate video conferencing over the web.
Its flip side is graced by an 8MP primary camera that can be used for the purpose of capturing high resolution images as well as videos. This rear snapper boasts of most of the common features including auto focus with two-stage capture key, short pulse high power dual LED flash, a Carl Zeiss Tessar optical lens, touch focus, geo-tagging, 4x digital zoom, still image editor and more.
The device in question gains steam from a dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset that processes at a maximum speed of 1.5GHz and 1GB of RAM. In addition to 8GB on integrated memory, the phone tags along 7GB of SkyDrive storage along with a microSD card slot to hoard digital content of up to 64GB capacity. Its specifications list features a USB 2.0 port, a 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, NFC and Bluetooth 3.0 amongst others.
The AT&T Nokia Lumia 820 smartphone’s price is $49.99 along with a two-year customer agreement and qualifying data plans.
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