Nokia sure is pulling all strings to get back their
dominance over the worldwide mobile market. We all know that lately all the
Android based phones and the iPhones have somewhat been more popular among
smartphones! Nokia was and still is a brand which makes the best hardware for
mobiles. They’ve been known for that and they have managed to maintain that
quality over the years. But where they lacked and others took over was the
innovation in the software department. Droids and iPhones changed the way
people used a smartphone. They came out with some great OS for their phones.
All this while Nokia stuck with their old OS, which couldn’t really keep up
with the times, and was eventually, considered to be dead. This boring outlook
did not gel with the consumers, which led to a decrease in Nokia’s market
share.

Now that Nokia has realised that even the most hardcore
Nokia fanatics will change their loyalty with time, they have finally decided
to take some action. This is obviously good, both for the consumers, and Nokia
as a brand. Nokia fans have reason to rejoice, and even other smartphone users
will now have more competitive options to choose from. And if these phones
work, Nokia could well get back to the top.

What Nokia has on offer in the coming times are two big
phones. They are being touted as comeback phones for Nokia. Yes, I am talking
about the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Both these phones are expected
to bring Nokia back with a bang in the smartphone market. These Windows based
phones carry potential to give real competition to other smartphones out there.
With the hardware reliability of Nokia and the software familiarity of Windows,
these phones are bound to attract attention.

The key feature of these phones is obviously the Windows 7.5
OS. But that is not it. They are packed with some amazing functions which will
keep you hooked onto it for long. Both these phones are in some ways pretty
similar, but there ARE some tech differences between the two. The Lumia 800 is
somewhat superior to the Lumia 710. As Lumia 710 is targeted more towards a
younger audience, the differences are justified.

What really stands out for the Lumia 800 is its unibody
touchscreen interface. It is probably the best looking phone out there, second
only to Nokia N9. A 3.7 inch clear-black AMOLED screen, 1.4 GHz processor, 512
MB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and an 8 Megapixel camera combine for a solid
smartphone. Although it has a smaller display than the N9 but it is still
better than iPhone’s display. The 8 Megapixel camera might work for a casual
photographer, but it visibly lags behind the N8 in terms of picture quality. There
are a couple Nokia-exclusive apps that give their devices more of an edge than
the competition Windows phones. One being Nokia’s popular free turn-by-turn
voice-guided navigation, and their new MixRadio online streaming service. It
also lets you use about 25GB of free SkyDrive storage for images and audio
tracks.

The Lumia 710 on the other hand is the more affordable of
the Windows Phone on offer by Nokia. It’s not too far away in specifications
from the Nokia 800. It packs a 5 Megapixel Camera with a LED flash, as compared
to the 8 Megapixel Camera on the 800. It has an LCD screen instead of the
AMOLED display on the 800. On the inside, though, it is similar to the 800 with
a 1.4GHz processor with 512 MB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. And unlike the 800,
the 710 has physical buttons on it. So it might not give you the seamless
unibody experience that is expected out of the 800.

Other than these differences, and the price difference of
course, both phones look good and are powerful. Their launch is highly
anticipated and some early reviews have been mostly positive. Let us wait and
watch how the consumers react as it is them who will decide Nokia’s fate in the
future.