Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29th
Engadget reports that October 29th will be the date that Windows Phone 8 will be officially launched. We’ve already seen the developer preview, and we are already waiting for the release of the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820. The last piece of the puzzle is the consumer end features that are yet to be made public.
As mentioned by the comments: Nokia Lumia 920/820, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, Xbox Smart Glass, Surface, Office 2013, Xbox Update, Server. It will be an interesting autumn/fall 
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Source: Engadget
Cheers James Scott for the tip!
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Ya.. is it invite only ? I am too lazy to read right now
Also, Nokia better say something about Verizon .. they are going to miss A LOT of sales if they don’t offer the 920/820 at Verizon and T-Mobile.
I’m betting Nokia has made something with Verizon and it will be revealed soon.
However, my fear is that whatever 920 variant or kind of device Verizon gets, might only get there after the holidays (perhaps holidays being just with a 822C or something)…
Too bad. I don’t like it. I get their rationale, but I don’t like it.
ATT just announced Sammie and Asus rt tablets with 4g. I have to admit, I’m bored with all this black border tablets already. We need Nokias “color my world” coffee tab. NOW NOKIA, PLEASE!
Hoping for 920 T-Mobile. They don’t need to sell it, all I ask for is 3G+ network compatibility.
What are benefits to offer Lumia 920 only by AT&T? I can’t see there any benefit. Why Nokia can’t ship 920 to all three major vendor?
Possibly; better promotions, better subsidies, better staff training, own corner in the store designed to show off the features. Who knows though.
Att has done a great job at corporate stores in new store layout. Its better to see the 920 on the first display with lights shining on it and accessories next to it.
unfortunately here in the US carriers rule, I am sure it was ATT that demanded an exclusive deal for the 920 just like they did with the 900. However a Verizon could be a different designation as it is CDMA, 922??
Well that is the only way around it, it probably needs to be slightly modified for Nokia to get away with it.
Have previous launches just been launches about upcoming launch? English is not my native language but all these revealings and launches and introductions confuse me. Will they re-launch 920 at same time or has it only been introduced? Lets see will it also be released at some point, or perhaps even available. Time will tell.
I prefer Nokia product-wise, but the Apple way of launch/introduce/reveal/release… is a lot more clear to me.
As Elop said in one of the latest interviews, if they could have released the phone earlier, they would have. The schedule can’t be helped.
However, they did the “premature” launch to get the Lumia 920 to headlines when people were discussing the competing products. It did work, as the iPhone 5 etc. are constantly compared to Lumia 920.
Not optimal, and hopefully not the future trend, but in this case it did help someways. (Of course best would have been an earlier release schedule.)
You are living in bubble. Outside fan sites and few articles on tech blogs, 920 (or 820) isn’t compared to iPhone, after all it even can’t be compared, because the phone still isn’t fully released for reviews.
The September non-launch was fiasco even before considering the fallout from the “fake” video.
I meant the technology press and to an extent other press. Clearly they took Lumia 920 into the discussion in a major way.
I have no insight into consumer masses (outside of Finland at least where I’d say the 920 does have some visibility to masses), but you can obviously be right about those.
Had Lumia 920 only been introduced closer to release, it would have been missing from this press discussion completely.
So, partial success on a press-level, but of course very unfortunate that the schedule is what it is otherwise.
Well, if you begin to stack up fuzzy and subjective qualifications like “to an extent” and “included into discussion in a major way”…
And I still don’t know why it should be success for Nokia. Elop did enormous damage to Nokia, but not that big as you are implying. They would get mentions that there is also that other Nokia phone in tech press anyway, they don’t need to do non-launches for that.
The problem is general press, where they simply failed to get traction, and it was because they in effect didn’t say much about the phone outside that it does exists and has this camera, which of course was overshadowed by the fake video and Nokia’s inability to counter with real tests. There was no OS, no price, no availability, no reviews possible, so even if you wanted to report about 920 and compare it with others, you simply couldn’t.
It was PR failure and I still puzzled why Elop did it, why he couldn’t wait for few weeks and release the phone when he more to say and create much bigger buzz and much favourable comparisons with iPhone when Apple is having problems with maps and camera.
Every tech blog mentions the 920 in their lineup of new devices, and the 920 was mentioned in plenty of i5 reviews.
For the “serious press”, and outside of your derogatory bubble, where nobody gives a crap about the 920, the “september non-launch” also made absolutely no difference.
So in the end, it’s a net win.
And for the love of god stop with your whiny “and Nokia’s inability to counter with real tests”, plenty of people have seen OIS, Nokia has invited plenty of independent people to come look at it, they’ve showed it off at camera events, nobody except Elop haterz believes they can still credibly dismiss it or claim it does not work.
And? Are we supposed to cheer that when specialized website lists five or six phones for this Christmas season, Nokia is still included? Is few mentions here and there now high point of any Nokia’s PR campaign?
I suppose there is now no need to release full info like prices, avialability, show SW and let journalists write reviews, because nobody would be bothered to report that. Just say there is the phone, show the main features for few moments and then go silent, if anyone writes couple of words about it, then job well done and time for bonus.
Again and again, the lows to which WP fans need to push Nokia in their quest to paint Elop’s conduct as at least partially successful are highly revealing.
The world does not consist of people reading tech or Nokia blogs. There are those who are interested in tech and they’re anxious to find out all the details and the sky will fall and the world will end if christmas does not come RIGHT NOW.
The rest of America has bigger things to worry about; Microsoft will unleash their marketing campaign at the second every device and service becomes available at the end of October, and AT&T will start the marketing will full pricing and availability in due time as well.
Normal people do not look at a “specialized website”. They’ll walk into the store at some point when they’re eligable for a new device and have their pick. Others will see the ads on tv and decide they want it. Or they see a friend who has it.
Those who get their info from Engadget or the iVerge are usually already very set in their ways and not about to switch OS or manufacturer over a release date.
Actually, if they read all this tech news, they’d also know they will be launched on november 4, and they’ll have a good idea of prizing, even though they’re the group who is the least likely to be influenced by pricing.
In other words, relax. It’s a big storm in the blogoworld, but it’s a storm in a teacup in the real world. People are NOT obsessing over which device they’re going to buy come xmas.
I wholeheartedly agree. For Lumia success Nokia needs favourable covering in general media, tech blogs are just side show. But here the non-launch of new Lumias fared far worse than in tech blogs, where Nokia at least gets not so rare coverage with sympathetic/hopeful tones.
In the general media it has not yet launched. Bits and pieces keep coming out for the interested people to consume, but the real launch, when actual advertising etc starts, is end of October, with the entire W8 ecosystem.
If that pisses off (some of) the tech people who honestly sound like spoiled baby whiners half the time, then that’s their choice to be pissed off.
In other words the September launch was actually non-launch, Nokia just randomly fired from their biggest gun standing back to the target and thus without making any impact.
And I even forgot announce..
Lumia 920 and 820 has all the assets to succeed. A good marketing strategy, good pricing and we will see a rise of Nokia again. But I afraid, if 920 and 820 fails to grab the attention of customers, we may witness the end of Nokia.
Either way it’s gonna be a very interesting fall.
The 920 already has grabbed the attention of consumers. The 820 will depend on the price.
In case of 920 also the pricing will play a major role. They need to keep the price of 920 equal or lower than SGS3. It will give them some advantages over the competition. But it’s unlikely knowing how Nokia charge for their products.
No, it has grabbed the attention of bloggers and gadget junkies.
NOBODY in the real world l have spoken too know what a 920 or Lumia is (many have mentioned iPhone 5 – first phone with LTE etc).
Several people I have spoken to in the real world knew about the 920. Both here in the US and oversees (e.g. in Turkey).
Actually a lot of the people I know have been speaking of the Lumia 920. They aren’t gadget obsessed freaks and don’t know that the 820 even exists but they have heard of how awesome the 920 is and they also think the iPhone is becoming a sort of joke which is in part thanks to all the iPhone maps and screen memes floating around the internet.
It depends how much they want for it. They need to sell the 920 for cheap to gain some ground, risking a bit of “brand name” in process won’t hurt.
If they try to sell it for as much as an iPhone 5 or and Galaxy S3 / Google Nexus can be bought, its not going to work very well for them. In fact, that is exactly what they should do, $375 for unlocked 920, just like google does with their nexus line.
Lumia 800 and 900 failed here in India due to the high price. They are selling 900 for around Rs 32000 (around $600) and the SGS3 and One X are available in very close price of around Rs 35000(around $656). Sounds like a joke. Isn’t it ?
Well, yes..price is a huge factor. And.. the 900 was just a beta test anyway.
In the u.s. a lot of android users are looking for something else. Those google rebates to sellers could be cut soon.
I think the upcoming Christmas season will decide a whole lot of things about marketing strategies.
Aha so this autumn 2 giants will fall.. RIP..
who is the second one ? Microsoft is not going anywhere..not even close.
RIM lol
Who cares about RIM.. hah
Hahah
What the heck is that picture?
apparently MNB hosts are racist
And at the same time around Google (Andy Rubin) will announce their new Nexus program with an armada of new Nexus devices along with Android 4.2. Guess which will grab more media attention.
What is going on over there. Motorola is laying off tons of people. Is Google owned Motorola going to release a phone and piss off Samsung? Is HTC floating out to see, they seem lost? What is Amazon doing?
Chaos.
chaos does not matter what matters is sales and is more than clear turdkia fell asleep, its to late. for when turdkia launch its 920 there will be several androids lurking , no traces remain of turdkia
What’s turdkia?
Ya.. I don’t know what google are doing, but the US gov won’t be happy to see all those people being let go, after they approved the buyout.
I know I’m not that familiar with US politics but why should that be their problem? Google didn’t ask for a single penny from them for the buyout. Besides, any company have the right to do what they want to another entity that they bought, depending on the terms of the contract.
At last count, 1.8% of Android devices are on 4.1, and now you’re coming up with 4.2 ?
The nexus program is for the biggest google fanboys, they would never consider buying anything else anyway.
So anyone care to guess what phone they are using for the invitation? Its not something i seem to recognise as any of the upcoming Nokia phones as the FFC is on the left…
Its not a real phone, Its a mock phone used for this sort of stuff.
It’s the Microsoft Surface Windows Phone 8
.. no joke: http://www.wpcentral.com/forums-microsoft-surface-phone-and-companys-apollo-secrecy
Should be a render like what the others had mentioned.