{"id":654552,"date":"2013-04-25T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=145828"},"modified":"2013-04-25T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:22:30","slug":"next-chapter-of-the-lumia-story-comes-may-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654552","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Next chapter of the Lumia story&#8217; comes May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nokia-car-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nokia car\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145838\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t receive an invite, but based on the many reports from people who did, Nokia will host a new Lumia-outing event May 14 in London. Oh my, that&#8217;s the day before <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/03\/13\/google-io-sells-out\/\" >Google I\/O<\/a>, where rumored new Nexus smartphone(s) arrive (don&#8217;t believe everything you read on the Internet). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/09\/05\/meet_the_nokia_lumia_920\/\" >Nokia unveiled flagship phone Lumia 920<\/a> in September, and May would be pretty good time to announce a followup. Assuming the typical manufacturing and various country certification (think Federal Communications Commission) delays, a new splashy Lumia would get some breathing room post-launches for <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/02\/19\/meet-the-htc-one\/\" >HTC One<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/03\/17\/samsung-galaxy-s-iv-is-better-than-you-think\/\" >Samsung Galaxy S4<\/a>, while getting ahead of the next iPhone. During this week&#8217;s earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said not to expect any new products until autumn.<\/p>\n<p>What the <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/02\/27\/windows-phone-isnt-good-enough-for-41mp-nokia-808-pureview\/\" >geeks all wait for<\/a> is true PureView, Nokia&#8217;s exciting camera tech currently available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/07\/09\/the-808-pureview-accentuates-nokias-downfall\/\" >now obsolete<\/a> (because Symbian is) 808. But that&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess. (Note on the photo, don&#8217;t expect a car. I grabbed the image for the Nokia name\/logo).<\/p>\n<p>While we all wait for &#8220;the next chapter of the Lumia story&#8221;, as the invite states, Nokia is Mr. Busybody with more modest handsets. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/04\/24\/nokia-unveils-the-inexpensive-asha-210\/\" >Finnish handset maker unveiled feature phone Asha 210<\/a>. Today, Nokia announced the Lumia 521 for T-Mobile, which debuts on HSN.com and HSN mobile this weekend for $149.95 (price includes car charger and screen protector). Microsoft and select T-Mobile retailers start selling the smartphone on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Features include: 1GHz Qualcomm 82270 dual-core processor; 4-inch screen (800 by 400 resolution); 512MB RAM; 8GB storage, expandable to 64GB with microSD card; 5-megapixel rear-facing camera; 720p video recording (30 frames per second); HSPA+; WiFi N\/E; GPS; and Windows Phone 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> Joe Wilcox<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=M-E0qJvWixo:BLb_rF8K0N0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=M-E0qJvWixo:BLb_rF8K0N0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/M-E0qJvWixo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t receive an invite, but based on the many reports from people who did, Nokia will host a new Lumia-outing event May 14 in London. Oh my, that&#8217;s the day before Google I\/O, where rumored new Nexus smartphone(s) arrive (don&#8217;t believe everything you read on the Internet). Nokia unveiled flagship phone Lumia 920 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}