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Click here to view the video on YouTube.
If your organisation is looking for an outstanding business smartphone then they need look no further than the Nokia Lumia 620.
The latest addition to Nokia’s Lumia smartphone family has a great combination of good looks and great hardware, and it’s powered by the Windows Phone 8 operating system, which is perfect for all your work needs – not to mention your personal and social ones!
Fast and easy to use, the Lumia 620 will show your latest emails, news, documents and people updates as soon as they happen with the innovative Live Tiles on your Start screen.
If you still need convincing, here are 10 reasons why the Nokia Lumia 620 is a great smartphone for business.
1. Seamless synchronisation across Windows devices and services
Your Lumia 620 offers seamless integration with your Windows PC and existing IT infrastructure.
As the vast majority of businesses use Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Exchange, Office, Lync and SharePoint, your Lumia 620 will sync perfectly with the work you are doing on your Windows PC.
For example, all your office contacts, emails and calendar appointments from Outlook will be updated instantly on your Lumia 620 – exactly as it is on your PC.
It’s all extremely easy to set up – sign in with your username and login and then you’re ready to go. Everything works together and makes your life easier.
2. Business Tools
The Nokia Lumia 620 comes with mobile versions of all Microsoft’s popular desktop tools – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint. It’s all ready to go straight out of the box.
The benefits are immense – you’ll be able to work on the same documents on your PC and your Lumia smartphone with full synchronisation between the two. If you’re editing a document on your PC, those changes will appear when you look at the same document on your Lumia 620, and vice versa.
Find out more about working with Office on your Lumia.
3. Security
Ensuring that your emails, contacts and documents are secure is of vital importance. Your Lumia smartphone has a range of essential security measures that meets the most stringent IT requirements.
It has hardware accelerated encryption, remote locking and wipe, safer web browsing and protection measures to prevent you from downloading malicious applications. With device management support, IT departments can remotely secure and manage entire fleet of Nokia Lumia devices.
Don’t take our word for it – the experts also agree:
“Windows Phone is safe, we’ve seen no malware at all targeting the platform. You want a safe phone? Buy a Windows Phone,” –Mikko Hyppönen, Security Chief, F-Secure.
Find out more about the how Nokia Lumia is safe and secure.
4. Navigation and Location-based apps
Travelling is a fact of modern working life, so you’ll need the best navigation tools on your smartphone. Nokia’s HERE location platform is so good that it powers all Windows Phone devices – not just our own!
In addition to maps, which can work offline, you can get turn-by-turn navigation with Nokia Drive, find your way around public transport with Nokia Transit and look for nearby points of interest with the augmented reality app, Nokia City Lens.
So, even if you‘re in an unfamiliar city, your Lumia will help you find where you need to go. You’ll never be late for another meeting again!
5. Nokia Expert Centre
By choosing Nokia Lumia, your company can keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) to an absolute minimum. Unlike some of our competitors, there are no additional license fees to be paid for back-end services you already have invested in.
In fact, we offer a free service called the Nokia Expert Centre, which offers IT departments and advanced users, support and advice on Nokia products and business solutions.
Find out more about Nokia Expert Centre here and to take advantage of this helpful resource, go to the Nokia Expert Centre homepage and click ‘register.’
6. People & Messaging
Communication and staying in touch with your colleagues is extremely important to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Your Lumia 620 is set up specifically to put your contacts at the centre of the smartphone experience.
The People Hub lets you manage your messages and contacts with minimum effort. You can also create groups so that you can send emails or instant messages to a particular group all at once.
If real time communication is what you need, there’s also Microsoft Lync Mobile, so you can see if people are online, message them, show other people your status and join in with group chats.
With further options such as Skype, Viber, WhatsApp and many others, there are always plenty of ways for you to get your message across with the Lumia 620.
7. Apps on Windows Phone
Underlining the Nokia Lumia 620’s fantastic suitability for work and for getting your office tasks done is the fast growing ecosystem of Windows Phone apps. These can help you to stay informed and to stay in touch.
CNN, Bloomberg and LinkedIn are all useful apps for busy professionals. Plus, if you just want a bit of fun there are plenty apps to entertain you, such as Nokia Music or Netflix, not to mention the hundreds of games that you can download.
8. Collaboration and Storage
As I mentioned earlier, the Lumia 620 works seamlessly with Microsoft products. You can collaborate on documents with colleagues and save and access them via SharePoint directly from your smartphone.
The Lumia 620 comes with 8GB internal memory and Micro SD support up to 64GB. That’s a lot of space already, but there’s also cloud storage 7GB for free on SkyDrive. Once again, you’ll be able to access your SkyDrive documents or images from your smartphone or any computer with an Internet connection.
9. World-class design and materials
OK, it sounds superficial but isn’t it good to have a smartphone that looks great and one that has been designed and manufactured with a lot of love and care? That’s the Nokia Lumia 620.
It’s been made with a Dual Shot approach, which means it has two layers of premium polycarbonate, to give a transparency and depth to its bold and wide range of colours. Just because you’re using a work phone doesn’t mean it has to be boring!
It’s also worth noting the signature durability of Nokia smartphones here. There’s no way you’re going to be cut off from work because a minor accident wrecked your phone. And the employers who provision the phones will have fewer returns and less downtime to worry about.
10. Price
I haven’t even mentioned the camera with its digital lenses, such as Smart Shoot and Cinemagraph, the 3.8-inch display, which has the same sunlight readability enhancements as the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, or even the exchangeable shells.
The Nokia Lumia 620, with Windows Phone 8, is an attractive proposition because of all of the above, and all the other reasons listed. But here’s the thing: At around $249 USD it is also extremely good value for money.
At this price point, with its great security, communication and productivity features and its unique ability to synchronise seamlessly with your desktop tools, the Lumia 620 is shaping up as a real business leader.
Get the latest from Nokia on business and work at @NokiaAtWork.
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It’s certainly a little bittersweet for us to see our NokiaLVK fashion quest come to an end. Four weeks ago, we armed over 50 fashion and lifestyle trendsetters with the Lumia 900 and challenged them to search for and capture inspiration to ultimately create a bespoke piece of LeiVanKash jewellery.
Our five fabulous winners will now receive a one-of-a-kind Nokia and LVK jewellery chest containing the brand new Nokia Lumia 920 and a gorgeous LVK jewellery piece. The ultimate winner will soon be joining Nokia and LeiVanKash in London to see their inspirations come to life and become their very own piece of LVK jewellery.
We have had a huge amount of incredible entries and congratulations to everyone who has taken part. It’s been fantastic following the journey at #NokiaLVK and we hope that everyone has had fun with their Lumia!
Drumroll, please…
The winner who will be joining us in London is the amazing Sonya from Class is Eternal. Sonya’s video captured the true essence of the quest, taking the LVK collection, Skullmania, and showing us her style inspirations. Here is the winning video…
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
Here we have our four winners of a beautiful NokiaLVK jewellery chest and Lumia 920…
Angela from Korean Doll blew us away with her DIY jewellery skills and showed us how to hand craft your own earrings and necklace. For budding designers, check it out!
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
Lynsey over at Law of Fashion has created a simply beautiful mood board around the LeiVanKash Flora collection. Lynsey found inspiration during her travels, taking in architecture, vintage fashion and her own personal style.
The lovely Merily from Sequin Magazine selected the beautiful LeiVanKash Totem collection after a visit to the Estonian Museum of Natural History. Merily titled her mood board ‘Cetonia Aurata’, which is Latin for Rose Chafer.
Last but not at all least is the hugely talented Georgiana from Vintage Traffic. Georgiana used the Lumia to capture moments from her daily life and created StyleBooks using one of our favourite Lumia apps, StyleSaint. Check out her Persopolis-themed mood board. Genius!
Well done to everyone who took part and keep an eye out for our video in January to see what Sonya and LeiVanKash get up to in London!
**If you were inspired by the NokiaLVK activity and fancy trialing a Lumia 900 then please head here.**
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The lock screen is a much underrated and easily forgotten part of your Lumia experience. After all, you probably never look at it for more than a split-second before you swipe it up and get stuck into all the goodies that await inside.
With Windows Phone 8 on your Nokia Lumia 920 or Lumia 820 all that is set to change.
Within the lock screen settings there are now advanced options for you to customise your notifications, set your background, and best of all, to let apps change your lock screen dynamically. Think of it as a giant live tile.
Even though it is still very early days, developers have already started exploiting the potential of the new lock screen on Windows Phone 8.
Here are five apps that positively unlock your lock screen.
We’ve been big fans of Weather Flow for a while now and even spoke to its developer, Gergely Orosz, back in August.
Gergely’s apps are characterised by beautiful designs and your lock screen will certainly benefit from the latest incarnation of Weather Flow.
In many ways, the weather is an ideal subject for the lock screen: It is useful information that most of us keep an eye on regularly, it changes fairly frequently (OK, some places more often than others) and the changes can be illustrated with great images.
The Weather Flow lock screen can be customised too. You can choose from different lock screen styles, what information you want displayed and decide if you’d prefer an illustration of the current weather or a custom background image.
Hello Friends is a super simple, yet genius idea and it is currently the lock screen on my Nokia Lumia 820.
This app takes the photos of your contacts and shuffles them to create a mosaic – you can choose between small squares, large squares or a mix. The mosaic then becomes your lock screen background image.
That’s not all though – the mosaic shuffles itself, so that you’ll be greeted by a different group of friends every half an hour. It’s a subtle way of giving you a new lock screen throughout the day.
A detail that I really love is how the background image slowly fades to black as it comes towards the bottom of the screen – this means it is always easy to spot your notification icons.
Unsurprisingly, photo apps are ripe for the lock screen treatment. Photostream, formerly known as Flickr Live Wallpaper, is among the best of the bunch.
First you need to set up your photo sources. You can choose from a variety of Flickr options, such as the Interesting Photos group, your own Flickr photos, searching by keyword and also your camera roll.
When you’ve made your choice, the photos change periodically (you can change how often you want it to change and for changing over WiFi only) on your lock screen. What could be simpler?
Other interesting photo lock screen apps are Locksider, which boasts curated images in formats that will always look good on your screen and the niche but stunning Astronomy Lock Screen – a daily download of the best images from space.
Got an important date coming up, like a wedding or going on a holiday? This app will tell you how many days, hours and minutes you’ve got left before the big day.
You can set the custom message, set the countdown date and then choose an image from your Picture Hub as the background.
As well as the lock screen, you can also pin a Live Tile to your start screen both of which, of course, countdown.
CNN (free)
It’s not just the independent developers but the big boys are getting in on the lock screen action too.
CNN was quick out of the blocks with its app for Windows Phone 8 and has great live tiles (the wide one works really well) and a lock screen option.
Within the app’s settings you turn on the ‘lock screen updates’ and you’ll get a topical image that is updated as your background image.
We are sure that there are more and more apps being released all the time with great lock screen features. Have you been using any good ones? Let us know in the comments below.
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Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? I don’t think so. It’s the Nokia Lumia 820. And befitting the mass enthusiasm surrounding the Nokia Lumia 920′s ‘little brother’, we’ve rounded up the latest reviews from the tech community.
As ‘strong as Popeye‘ according to GSM Nation’s blog, the Lumia 820 is eulogised for its ‘clever use of the right materials’, particularly the display ‘well endowed’ with sharpness, the ‘nice’ expandable storage and the ‘impeccable’ wide viewing angles.
Watch this video on YouTube.
Jessica Dolcourt praised the Lumia 820′s 4.3inch amoled screen and ClearBlack technology for making the mobile device ‘great to look at’. As she demonstrated in her hands-on CNET review, the ‘pretty neat’ highly sensitive screen allowed her to navigate the interface easily with her fingernails or a pair of gloves on.
Impressed by the colourful Windows Phone 8 phone, Tech Radar adore the slickness of the ‘smooth’ operating system, ultimately concluding the Lumia 820 to be a ‘tempting offer for anyone.’ Nice. And lest we forget, the AMOLED, ClearBlack displays, playback ‘looks great’. – as shown below.
Now you’ve seen what the blogs and reviewers have had to say, what are your thoughts? As you know, you can comment here or on our Twitter.
Image Credits: MobileChoiceUK, MobileNewsCWP, Tech Radar
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Today, we introduce new social sharing functionality to Cinemagraph, one of the coolest imaging features on our Windows Phone 8 Lumia smartphones.
As we’ve explained previously, Cinemagraph allows you to create partially moving pictures by combining animations and still images. You can create magical Cinemagraph pictures easily by marking out the animated area with your finger, which can yield dramatic results.
[click through for the animated version]
As part of our commitment to continue to improve and refine our apps and products, we’re now introducing an update which allows you to more easily share the Cinemagraphs you’ve created with your friends.
In the updated Cinemagraph, you’ll find a new ‘Share’ menu option within the app which allows you to select between Facebook and Twitter, email or messaging. In the case of Facebook, you can also choose how publicly you want to share your image.
The app uploads your Cinemagraph pictures to our servers and sends a link to the site or people you’ve chosen. The Cinemagraphs aren’t uploaded directly to social networks, because they don’t support the animated format used for the files.
So how do you get this new update? If you already have Cinemagraph installed, look out for an update notice in the Windows Phone Store. If you haven’t, then you can get it from the Store by following this link with your Lumia.
Once you have the update, let us know how you get on in the comments.
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It’s certainly a little bittersweet for us to see our NokiaLVK fashion quest come to an end. Four weeks ago, we armed over 50 fashion and lifestyle trendsetters with the Lumia 900 and challenged them to search for and capture inspiration to ultimately create a bespoke piece of LeiVanKash jewellery.
Our five fabulous winners will now receive a one-of-a-kind Nokia and LVK jewellery chest containing the brand new Nokia Lumia 920 and a gorgeous LVK jewellery piece. The ultimate winner will soon be joining Nokia and LeiVanKash in London to see their inspirations come to life and become their very own piece of LVK jewellery.
We have had a huge amount of incredible entries and congratulations to everyone who has taken part. It’s been fantastic following the journey at #NokiaLVK and we hope that everyone has had fun with their Lumia!
Drumroll, please…
The winner who will be joining us in London is the amazing Sonya from Class is Eternal. Sonya’s video captured the true essence of the quest, taking the LVK collection, Skullmania, and showing us her style inspirations. Here is the winning video…
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
Here we have our four winners of a beautiful NokiaLVK jewellery chest and Lumia 920…
Angela from Korean Doll blew us away with her DIY jewellery skills and showed us how to hand craft your own earrings and necklace. For budding designers, check it out!
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
Lynsey over at Law of Fashion has created a simply beautiful mood board around the LeiVanKash Flora collection. Lynsey found inspiration during her travels, taking in architecture, vintage fashion and her own personal style.
The lovely Merily from Sequin Magazine selected the beautiful LeiVanKash Totem collection after a visit to the Estonian Museum of Natural History. Merily titled her mood board ‘Cetonia Aurata’, which is Latin for Rose Chafer.
Last but not at all least is the hugely talented Georgiana from Vintage Traffic. Georgiana used the Lumia to capture moments from her daily life and created StyleBooks using one of our favourite Lumia apps, StyleSaint. Check out her Persopolis-themed mood board. Genius!
Well done to everyone who took part and keep an eye out for our video in January to see what Sonya and LeiVanKash get up to in London!
**If you were inspired by the NokiaLVK activity and fancy trialing a Lumia 900 then please head here.**
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The lock screen is a much underrated and easily forgotten part of your Lumia experience. After all, you probably never look at it for more than a split-second before you swipe it up and get stuck into all the goodies that await inside.
With Windows Phone 8 on your Nokia Lumia 920 or Lumia 820 all that is set to change.
Within the lock screen settings there are now advanced options for you to customise your notifications, set your background, and best of all, to let apps change your lock screen dynamically. Think of it as a giant live tile.
Even though it is still very early days, developers have already started exploiting the potential of the new lock screen on Windows Phone 8.
Here are five apps that positively unlock your lock screen.
We’ve been big fans of Weather Flow for a while now and even spoke to its developer, Gergely Orosz, back in August.
Gergely’s apps are characterised by beautiful designs and your lock screen will certainly benefit from the latest incarnation of Weather Flow.
In many ways, the weather is an ideal subject for the lock screen: It is useful information that most of us keep an eye on regularly, it changes fairly frequently (OK, some places more often than others) and the changes can be illustrated with great images.
The Weather Flow lock screen can be customised too. You can choose from different lock screen styles, what information you want displayed and decide if you’d prefer an illustration of the current weather or a custom background image.
Hello Friends is a super simple, yet genius idea and it is currently the lock screen on my Nokia Lumia 820.
This app takes the photos of your contacts and shuffles them to create a mosaic – you can choose between small squares, large squares or a mix. The mosaic then becomes your lock screen background image.
That’s not all though – the mosaic shuffles itself, so that you’ll be greeted by a different group of friends every half an hour. It’s a subtle way of giving you a new lock screen throughout the day.
A detail that I really love is how the background image slowly fades to black as it comes towards the bottom of the screen – this means it is always easy to spot your notification icons.
Unsurprisingly, photo apps are ripe for the lock screen treatment. Photostream, formerly known as Flickr Live Wallpaper, is among the best of the bunch.
First you need to set up your photo sources. You can choose from a variety of Flickr options, such as the Interesting Photos group, your own Flickr photos, searching by keyword and also your camera roll.
When you’ve made your choice, the photos change periodically (you can change how often you want it to change and for changing over WiFi only) on your lock screen. What could be simpler?
Other interesting photo lock screen apps are Locksider, which boasts curated images in formats that will always look good on your screen and the niche but stunning Astronomy Lock Screen – a daily download of the best images from space.
Got an important date coming up, like a wedding or going on a holiday? This app will tell you how many days, hours and minutes you’ve got left before the big day.
You can set the custom message, set the countdown date and then choose an image from your Picture Hub as the background.
As well as the lock screen, you can also pin a Live Tile to your start screen both of which, of course, countdown.
CNN (free)
It’s not just the independent developers but the big boys are getting in on the lock screen action too.
CNN was quick out of the blocks with its app for Windows Phone 8 and has great live tiles (the wide one works really well) and a lock screen option.
Within the app’s settings you turn on the ‘lock screen updates’ and you’ll get a topical image that is updated as your background image.
We are sure that there are more and more apps being released all the time with great lock screen features. Have you been using any good ones? Let us know in the comments below.
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Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? I don’t think so. It’s the Nokia Lumia 820. And befitting the mass enthusiasm surrounding the Nokia Lumia 920′s ‘little brother’, we’ve rounded up the latest reviews from the tech community.
As ‘strong as Popeye‘ according to GSM Nation’s blog, the Lumia 820 is eulogised for its ‘clever use of the right materials’, particularly the display ‘well endowed’ with sharpness, the ‘nice’ expandable storage and the ‘impeccable’ wide viewing angles.
Watch this video on YouTube.
Jessica Dolcourt praised the Lumia 820′s 4.3inch amoled screen and ClearBlack technology for making the mobile device ‘great to look at’. As she demonstrated in her hands-on CNET review, the ‘pretty neat’ highly sensitive screen allowed her to navigate the interface easily with her fingernails or a pair of gloves on.
Impressed by the colourful Windows Phone 8 phone, Tech Radar adore the slickness of the ‘smooth’ operating system, ultimately concluding the Lumia 820 to be a ‘tempting offer for anyone.’ Nice. And lest we forget, the AMOLED, ClearBlack displays, playback ‘looks great’. – as shown below.
Now you’ve seen what the blogs and reviewers have had to say, what are your thoughts? As you know, you can comment here or on our Twitter.
Image Credits: MobileChoiceUK, MobileNewsCWP, Tech Radar
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Today, we introduce new social sharing functionality to Cinemagraph, one of the coolest imaging features on our Windows Phone 8 Lumia smartphones.
As we’ve explained previously, Cinemagraph allows you to create partially moving pictures by combining animations and still images. You can create magical Cinemagraph pictures easily by marking out the animated area with your finger, which can yield dramatic results.
[click through for the animated version]
As part of our commitment to continue to improve and refine our apps and products, we’re now introducing an update which allows you to more easily share the Cinemagraphs you’ve created with your friends.
In the updated Cinemagraph, you’ll find a new ‘Share’ menu option within the app which allows you to select between Facebook and Twitter, email or messaging. In the case of Facebook, you can also choose how publicly you want to share your image.
The app uploads your Cinemagraph pictures to our servers and sends a link to the site or people you’ve chosen. The Cinemagraphs aren’t uploaded directly to social networks, because they don’t support the animated format used for the files.
So how do you get this new update? If you already have Cinemagraph installed, look out for an update notice in the Windows Phone Store. If you haven’t, then you can get it from the Store by following this link with your Lumia.
Once you have the update, let us know how you get on in the comments.
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Good news for owners of Windows Phone 8 Lumia smartphones. The enormously popular instant messaging client WhatsApp has been updated for the latest version of the operating system, joining Facebook Chat, MSN messaging, Skype, Viber and a host of other alternatives.
The developers were working with Nokia to produce a version that is properly optimised for the latest Windows Phone platform experience.
In case WhatsApp is new to you, it’s for instant messaging using text, of course, but also allows you to send pictures, audio and video files. It’s also great for group chats, which can be tricky to manage using some of the alternatives.
Unlike SMS, WhatsApp uses your data connection, whether that’s 3G, LTE or WiFi, to send and receive messages. This can mean cost-savings for users, of course, which is another factor that has undoubtedly contributed to the popularity of the service.
Setting up WhatsApp is a two-step process. You download and install the app. Then you need to verify your phone number using the code from an SMS sent from the company’s servers. Once installed, it will automatically find the other WhatsApp users in your phonebook and add them its built-in phone book.
WhatsApp is free for the first 12 months, then costs $0.99 for the years thereafter.
Available across almost every smartphone platform, including Series 40 and Symbian, as well as Windows Phone, the app has a huge following – and there’s no problem messaging other users on a completely different type of phone. Like every other social network, if your friends are using WhatsApp, it’s a must-have app.
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