Nokia unveils Lumia 510 Windows smartphone for Indian consumers

New Delhi, Oct 23: Nokia has officially unveiled its latest budget smartphone, the Lumia 510, running Windows Phone 7.5, in the national capital. Although the company has not revealed its price, it is likely to cost below Rs 11,000.The device features a 4-inch 480x800 TFT display, single-core Snapdragon processor, 256MBs of RAM and a five-megapixel camera. The phone does not have a front camera. The Lumia 510 also has 4GBs of internal storage along with 7GBs of Skydrive cloud storage. The device also has some limitations, one of them being no option for external storage. The handset will be available in five vivid colours: red, yellow, cyan, white and black. "With the Nokia Lumia 510 we continue to meet our commitment to bring Windows Phone to new, lower price points. People who use Windows Phone quickly realize how much more intuitive it is than other smartphone platforms, and Nokia Lumia is the best embodiment of the Windows Phone experience," said Jo Harlow, executive vice president of Nokia Smart Devices.Nokia has also provided its own exclusive apps and services, such as Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps and Nokia Transport.According to Nokia, the Windows Phone provides a different experience to users due to Live Tiles, that enables users to customize the Windows start screen by pinning, unpinning, arranging, and grouping individual tiles, representing a particular section. With this feature, a user can easily see incoming messages and updates; use People Hub, which brings together contacts and updates from across social networks into one location, and access to Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer 9 on the mobile.The company has planned to start selling the device in India and China around Diwali, closely followed by other Asia-Pacific countries and South America.