Lumia 830 goes on sale online; to be available in retail stores tomorrow

The Nokia Lumia 830 has arrived in India, finally. The latest smartphone from the Lumia family has gone on sale on Indiatimes today, for a price of Rs. 28,799 which equals to $480. At the moment only the black colour variant of the smartphone is available as the orange colour variant has been listed as “coming soon”.

This latest smartphone from the Microsoft owned company is quite impressive in specifications, as it comes with an eye-catching 5-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen which has a super sharp resolution of 720x1280 pixels and a pixel density of around 294 ppi. The screen also supports 16M colours and has an aspect ratio of 16:9. The screen is also protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and has a ClearBlack display. The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset which has four cores and has a Cortex A7 processor.

The processor has been clocked at 1.2 GHz and also has the Adreno 305 GPU. The Lumia 830 has 16 gigs of internal storage that can be expanded to 128 GB via a microSD card and 1 GB of RAM to ensure smooth running of the smartphone. The phone has a 10 MP primary camera which comes loaded with optical image stabilization, autofocus and LED flash.

The primary shooter can do videos at 1080p while the 0.9 MP secondary camera can record 720p videos. The phone has a 2200 mAh battery and also has Bluetooth v4.0, GPS, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi support along with microUSB v2.0. The phone comes with the Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 operating system out-of-the-box.

Currently, customers who are interested in buying the phone can only do so via online e-commerce sites. However, the phone should be hitting the retail stores by tomorrow.