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Nokia to push camera on new Windows Phone 8 phone

Nokia announced its new flagship Windows Phone 8, the Lumia 920, with a powerful PureView camera as the centerpiece.

The Nokia Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch curved glass display with 1280-pixel-by-768-pixel resolution, a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The Nokia Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch curved glass display with 1280-pixel-by-768-pixel resolution, a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Nokia also announceda mid-range Lumia 820 model that has a 4.3-inch display and supports exchangeable shell designs with a shorter battery life and 8 GB storage.

The Nokia Lumia 920’s PureView camera which, despite the name, doesn’t have the same whopping 41-megapixel sensor found on Nokia’s 808 PureView Symbian phone. The sensor in the Lumia 920 is a more typical 8.7 megapixels, but Nokia claims that the 920’s camera captures five-to-ten times more light than other phone cameras, which makes it better at shooting photos indoors or in low lighting.

Nokia hasn’t announced pricing or availability for its new Lumia phones, but says both will be available in pentaband LTE and HSPA+ variants in select markets later this year.