Nokia hoped to steal at least some of the limelight from Apple as it revealed not one, not two but six devices at Nokia World 2013-- a trio of Asha devices, two 6-inch Lumia devices and the first Nokia Windows tablet.
No doubt the tablet is the most intriguing device, seeing how the soon-owned-by-Microsoft Nokia presented what amounts to a Surface 2 killer. Dubbed the Lumia 2520, it is a Windows 8.1 (not Windows Phone) device with a 10.1-inch 1920x1080 display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, 6.7MP rear-facing camrea, 8000mAh battery and 4G LTE support inside a glossy polycarbonate unibody in red, white, black or cyan.
Like other Windows RT devices the Lumia 2320 gets the Office RT suite (packs Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook) for free, as well as Nokia software such as Music, HERE maps and the newly revealed Storyteller photo organiser.
Also presented is a "unique and stylish" accessory-- the Nokia Power Keyboard, an (as the name suggests) keyboard promising 5 extra hours of battery life and 2 USB ports.
As well as tablets, Nokia World 2013 sees the company taking on the big, fat smartphone category dominated by Samsung and LG with the 6-inch Lumia 1520 and 1320. Running on Windows Phone, the Lumia 1520 offers a 20MP PureView camera (a smaller version of the 41MP technology found in the Lumia 1020) and a 1920x1080 display, while the Lumia 1320 carries a 1240x720 display and a 5MP camera.
On the software side Nokia announced a number of big-name apps, including Flipboard, Vine and Instagram, will be showing up on Windows Phone in "the coming weeks," which is always something of a celebration for the app-starved platform.
The Lumia 1520 start shipping from Q4 2013 in yellow, white, black and red from Q4 2013, and the Lumia 1320 will be available from Q1 2014 in orange, yellow, white and black.
And finally Nokia continues showing some love at the lower tier of the market with a new Asha devices-- the 500, 502 and 503, all running on browser-based Symbian replacement Asha OS.
