
Hands On With Nokia's Lumia 610 and New Asha Phones;Not everyone can afford a high-end smartphone. So on Monday, Nokia announced the Lumia 610, the first Windows Phone based on the lower-cost Qualcomm MSM7x27 chipset, along with three new Asha feature phones. The company also announced an international version of the Nokia Lumia 900 with HSPA+ 42, although Nokia was careful to say that it wasn't for the US The Lumia 610 announcement appeared to be a stealth launch of a new Windows Phone OS version commonly known as "Tango," which brings Windows Phone to less expensive handsets by allowing it to run on the 7x27 processor and in only 256MB of RAM. Microsoft also got on stage to say a new beta of Skype for Windows Phone would be available today, one of 65000 apps now available for the company's smartphone platform. MWC Logo Tango may not even turn out to be a point release for Microsoft. "The Nokia Lumia 610 was made possible thanks to a new software release from Microsoft delivering enhanced capabilities to the Windows Phone 7.5 platform," Nokia's press release says. So how is the Lumia 610? Pretty, but definitely slower than I'm used to from Windows Phones—although I couldn't tell 100 percent if that was because of the very congested network here in Barcelona. The 610's processor runs at 1GHz, but we're in "megahertz myth" territory now—this 1GHz is slower than the typical Windows Phone's 1GHz, and definitely slower than the 1.4GHz we're getting used to with newer Windows <b>...</b>
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