Lumia 810 Announced, Headed to T-Mobile Soon
Here’s one to please the folks who were upset by the exclusive deals Nokia struck with At&t, just now T-Mobile have announced the Lumia 810 (yes 810, not 820) coming to them exclusively from Nokia. The 810 comes with a 4.3″ screen (WVGA/CBD), 8MP rear facing Camera, 1.2MP FFC (Skype Certified) and an all new design. The design itself seems to be aluminum or metal (or some very shiny poly-carbonate perhaps a gloss black?) Cyan picture is definitely polycarb. with rounded corners (uh-oh 
); however I’m honestly left wondering how we haven’t heard a peep of this device, as well why it wasn’t announced alongside the 820 & 920. Till now the full specs sheet hasn’t been announced, nor has there been any word about the variety of colors, but expect the internals of the phone to match those of the 820 (just a hunch).
The main noticeable difference besides the subtle design changes (the 820 seems more rounded across the back) is hte inclusion of wireless charging out of the box in the 810, as well as access to T-Mobiles 4G speeds.
*As usual no specific release date or pricing… great.
Full Press Release:
T-Mobile and Nokia Introduce the Nokia Lumia 810
An exclusive T-Mobile device, the Nokia Lumia 810, coupled with T-Mobile’s Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data, gives customers a truly unlimited Windows Phone 8 experience
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Oct. 8, 2012 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Nokia today announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia Lumia 810 – an exclusive to T-Mobile. The new Windows Phone 8 smartphone offers an enhanced camera, simple design and integrated navigation features. Combined with the only unlimited nationwide 4G data plan, T-Mobile customers will see a superior value with the Lumia 810, the latest addition to T-Mobile’s expanding lineup of Windows devices.
“We’re providing our customers with a unique Windows Phone 8 experience by offering an exclusive device paired with our Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan and a comprehensive set of enhanced features,” said Andrew Morrison, vice president of product management, T-Mobile USA. “The Nokia Lumia 810 gives customers speedy, 4G access to T-Mobile’s nationwide network and the content and features they want, whenever they need it. From navigation tools to an enhanced camera, the Lumia 810 provides a great value and a high-quality experience.”
“The Nokia Lumia 810 features a sleek design and high-quality hardware, combined with the efficient and intuitive Windows Phone 8 operating system,” said Olivier Puech, President, Nokia Americas. “When combined with applications such as Nokia Drive and Nokia City Lens, the Lumia 810 ensures that T-Mobile customers are getting the best experience possible out of their smartphone.”
Sleek Unibody Design and State-of-the-Art Wireless Charging
Featuring a 4.3-inch OLED WVGA Clear Black display, the Lumia 810 offers high-end performance in a compact package. The new smartphone is powered by Windows Phone 8, making it easy for users to personalize their device and experiences and always stay connected to friends and family. T-Mobile will offer exchangeable shells in cyan and black, which will allow the device to take advantage of Nokia’s convenient and innovative wireless charging solution.New High-End Camera Features to Capture and Share Quality Photos
With an 8-megapixel camera engineered with Carl Zeiss optics, the Lumia 810 takes crisper and sharper pictures, bringing memories to life. The device also features a new 1.2-megapixel Skype HD certified front-facing camera, providing a high-quality mobile video chat experience. With the Lumia 810, users can capture, share and relive life’s moments with new camera features such as Cinemagraph, a lens that creates animated GIFs, as well as panorama settings and Group Shoot, which allows the customer to choose the best faces and smiles from a burst of photos and stitch them together to produce the perfect group shot.Enhanced Navigation Experience
The Lumia 810 also comes with new and enhanced navigation features including Nokia City Lens, which overlays information about restaurants, shops, hotels and more on the surfaces of buildings, providing a new augmented reality experience. The smartphone also provides a comprehensive, integrated mapping experience through new enhancements to Nokia Drive, a voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation system, as well as through Nokia Transit, which provides directions to a location using public transportation.Easier Entertainment
The Lumia 810 also comes with Nokia Music, which features playlists that are curated by an expert team of global and regional musicologists, spanning a wide spectrum of music genres. Completely advertisement-free, and requiring no registration or subscription, Nokia Music allows consumers to enjoy the songs of their favorite artists without disruption. Nokia Music can also be enjoyed offline so consumers can listen to their favorite playlists anytime, anywhere.Availability
The Nokia Lumia 810 is expected to be available in the coming weeks. For more information on T-Mobile’s devices, visit http://www.t-mobile.com/. For more information on T-Mobile’s Unlimited Value and Monthly4G plans, see: http://family.t-mobile.com/phone-plans.
About T-Mobile USA. Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). By the end of the second quarter of 2012, approximately 130 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group – 33.2 million by T-Mobile USA – all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS and additionally HSPA+ 21/HSPA+ 42. T-Mobile USA’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile USA among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information on Deutsche Telekom, please visit http://www.telekom.de/investor-relations.
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia.Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of Deutsche Telekom management with respect to future events. These forward-looking statements may include statements with regard to the expected development of revenue, earnings, profits from operations, depreciation and amortization, cash flows and personnel-related measures. You should consider them with caution. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond Deutsche Telekom’s control. Among the factors that might influence our ability to achieve our objectives are the progress of our workforce reduction initiative and other cost-saving measures, and the impact of other significant strategic, labor or business initiatives, including acquisitions, dispositions and business combinations, and our network upgrade and expansion initiatives. In addition, stronger than expected competition, technological change, legal proceedings and regulatory developments, among other factors, may have a material adverse effect on our costs and revenue development. Further, the economic downturn in our markets, and changes in interest and currency exchange rates, may also have an impact on our business development and the availability of financing on favorable conditions. Changes to our expectations concerning future cash flows may lead to impairment write downs of assets carried at historical cost, which may materially affect our results at the group and operating segment levels. If these or other risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, our actual performance may materially differ from the performance expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. We can offer no assurance that our estimates or expectations will be achieved. Without prejudice to existing obligations under capital market law, we do not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements to take new information or future events into account or otherwise.In addition to figures prepared in accordance with IFRS, Deutsche Telekom also presents non-GAAP financial performance measures, including, among others, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted EBIT, adjusted net income, free cash flow, gross debt and net debt. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Non-GAAP financial performance measures are not subject to IFRS or any other generally accepted accounting principles. Other companies may define these terms in different ways.
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Seriously didn’t see this one coming. Now that 822 for Verizon? Or is this that?
Also, more than one carrier, people. HA!
Also, did I just read unlimited data bundled with that device? Nice…
Exclusive unlimited data plan.. that counts
Afaik, that data plan is not exclusive to this model.
So there will be Lumia 910 as well?
Interesting…
That would be nice, I’d wait a couple of months for that.
Maybe by then we’ll get some more announcements.
A non-LTE Lumia 920 has already been pretty much confirmed before. Whether or not it will be called Lumia 910, I don’t know.
But why bother?
For the US its understandable because the 820 doesn’t support T-Mobile’s AWS 3G network so a special device is needed. Unless they’re planning to launch it on T-Mobile, there’s no need for a non-LTE Lumia 920.
He’s referring to international.
Janne, if you were to guess, do you think this non-LTE phone would support T-Mobile 3.5G?
Unfortunately, historically speaking I’m guessing AT&T type of bands in an international version. The phone would work on T-Mobile but some band missing…
Hopefully I’m wrong.
I may well be wrong on that guess. I haven’t heard much about the non-LTE version, except that it was said to come. Of course, it might not.
My guess based on the fact that AT&T bands are more aligned with rest of the world “standards” where as T-Mobile uses a little different… Hence international versions are usually more likely to support the full AT&T band range than T-Mobile (at least for pre-LTE).
Cause I hope 920 available in all the networks or at least the variants of 920…
Great news! Now one for Verizon please.. at least one..
and maybe bring the 922 (or whatever the name might be) later in the year.
It looks a bit like that concept.. the nice square one, can’t find a link right now.
way more beautiful than the 820. Too sad we won’t see this in Europe. Beautiful phone, very beautiful, i’m so jealous of Americans now
who said this won’t come to Europe
Exactly my thoughts. Slap an HD screen in this and I’d be all over it. Somehow this appeals more to me than the 920 :S
I was expecting this, though I thought it would be 7xx-series..
It would be nice to know how this differs from the 820, apart from design.
Well, I guess it’s got Gorilla Glass.
Bigger battery, better front camera, apparently wireless charging as well. and gorilla glass. Decent upgrades.
Without LTE, though – but clearly this model is designed for operator(s)/markets without big LTE need.
without LTE? I thought 4G is a synonym for LTE?! Cause they say it comes with a nationwide 4G plan…
Not all “4G” is LTE, unfortunately.
T-Mobile’s current 4G is more like 3.5G on steroids… they are not starting to deploy their LTE network as far as I know until sometime in 2013 and that’s only when they start to spread it out… There is no point in having LTE on their network yet.
I wouldn’t be too surprised to see the 810 appear on some other non-LTE markets later on (outside the U.S. that is).
Tmobile calls hspa+ 4g, Att does the same thing in the US.
Oh, so that’s what I have now… well, it’s blazingly fast compared to before, so it serves (at least) my needs well
Ah, ok, thx. Lack of LTE could explain how they can get all those upgrades, I guess. The wireless charging feels like the same deal as with the 820 though.
T-Mobile will offer exchangeable shells in cyan and black, which will allow the device to take advantage of Nokia’s convenient and innovative wireless charging solution.
Some incentive for T-Mobile customers, 2 exchangeable shells out of the box with both wireless charging included.
Who didn’t see this one coming? It was plain as day from the leaks. We discussed this a couple of days ago here. People accused me of who knows what related to that.
And yes, I believe the Verizon model is called 822 but we’ll see.
I am wondering what will be the incentive for L822 for Verizon customers.
It will be the best WP-phone Verizon will offer?
I didn’t expect it to be better looking than 820, to be honest.
We’re even then, as I didn’t expect it to be announced this soon.
It does look good, yes. Apparently the 810 moniker comes from the fact it won’t have LTE (as it is for T-Mobile).
I wonder if the non-LTE 810 might find home in some European markets as well…
I wouldn’t mind at all changing my Optimus 7 to one of those, resolution not being that important.
My first WP7 was Optimus 7, and believe me it was like night and day when I got my Lumia 800. This baby will be even brighter
I’d seriously buy one, if the display is non-pentile it would still be an upgrade from my 800, not to forget that slight model number increase
Also like the changeable covers on this, I mean an L920 would be great, but I can’t decide on the color and it just seems a little too big for what it offers. The design of the 810 really appeals to me, it has changeable covers which is just plain nice and would allow me to customize one in the future. And I just love, and yes I reaaally love the speaker placement at the bottom. The 710 and my former N8 just get muffled when in my pocket with the speak on the back.
Nokia!! Please!!Please!! Bring this to Europe as well!!!
Well, there is the wireless charging, and super sensitive touch too ( 820 has it, so I am guessing this one has it ).
The display is RGB stripe, so not PenTile.
So looks like all the hullabaloo was for naught eh
Not really, if a variant of the 920 gets released to other carriers then it’ll be for naught.
We all want the 920
Yes, please
I wouldn’t say it will be all for naught, but I agree the 920 is the major disagreement people seem to have with the carrier exclusives. We’ll see how long that exclusivity lasts.
L810 has vertical camera lens where as L820 has horizontal anyone see the difference.
with 21mp pureview? ha! not! i bet this will have subpar specs, hope i’m wrong.
Kinda of reminds me of that fan render on the paper with those fcc logos. Looks nice and is a budget phone which is precisely what T Mobile carries and is known for. Some of the press shots resemble the iPhone 5(maybe T Mobile wants to attract customers in store to try bring customers in to try it).
It does, yes. They are not the same at all, looking closely, but I wonder if that FCC thingy was a real leak with some future Nokia design-language on it (or just some fandom fancy) – now that we’ve seen this new boxy style for the first time from Nokia.
(Obviously not saying this is the first time for boxy designs from Nokia in history, just in recent smartphone times.)
Looks good… a mix of N900, Lumia 800(the back), and iPhone 5.
Kind of reminds me of the N82 from the side..sweet!
http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/compare/?action=productcompareaction&site=85048&products=1871828-1811114&operation=show
L820 & L810 comparison table from Nokia.
Looks like no Super sensitive display for l810
What do you mean? Super sensitive touch is there for 810 in Display Features.
where i didn’t see it, i saw it for L820 in the comparison table. i am getting blind or my be long day for me.
- Click the link: http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/compare/?action=productcompareaction&site=85048&products=1871828-1811114&operation=show
- Click the Design bar
- Compare Display features (Super sensitive touch is the second to last in both columns)
lol honestly i dont see it. I am getting blind help me…
Proxy problems? See below…
Not there. But the specs have been changing ever since I looked at it first. Guess some things haven’t been checked with upper management or something.
Just check all the specs, even supported audio formats aren’t the same, which I guess should be the same since both are WP8. And the navigation part is lacking some things even City Lens is missing which was present in the press release.
Sounds like a proxy problem? I wonder for you or for me…
This is a direct copy-paste from the link above, in Firefox:
Display features
Polarization filter
Light time-out
Ambient light detector
Brightness control
Orientation sensor
Proximity sensor
High Brightness mode
RGB Stripe
Sunlight readability enhancements
Aspect ratio 15:9
Super sensitive touch
Color boosting
Polarization filter
Light time-out
Ambient light detector
Brightness control
Orientation sensor
Proximity sensor
High Brightness mode
RGB Stripe
Sunlight readability enhancements
Aspect ratio 15:9
Super sensitive touch
Color boosting
Also, City Lens and all the stuff like that is there. Only differences in software specs are the AT&T bits of software (and Nokia Transport in 810).
By the way, I am not seeing this full list on another network I am now viewing it. Either there are some proxy issues somewhere and/or Nokia keeps changing the list.
So, all I’ve said based on that list is of course suspect until we get the real deal, what is the full/accurate spec sheet. Damn, I hate it that Nokia can’t seem to nail these releases down to an art. Always something…
Hard to really judge this phone until we see it in the wild somewhere.
All this is to be expected of course, the 820 will get its versions on all major American carriers with the exception of Sprint. 810 is now out, perhaps the Verizon one will be 822 as leaked.
To big boohoo is the exclusive dealings with Lumia 920. I have yet to see any solid rumors that it would come to other operators, rumblings being that only the PureView phase 3 would hit Verizon later on.
So, that’s one reason I don’t like the exclusives. It may work out, but I still don’t like it. I like the old European model of freedom from operator tyranny (luckily we’ll still have that here of course).
/rant over
Nokia`s new Strategy: 2 Core devices but many Avatars..
There is some truth to that way of putting it, yes.
They are going to play the carrier game differently than ever before. Right out of the BlackBerry playbook, so to speak…
I just hope and wish they succeed this time.
I’m sceptical, but hopeful too. We’ll see.
I don’t personally like carrier exclusives one bit.
Ali, so now you are complaining it was announced too close to the availability date?
“I’m honestly left wondering how we haven’t heard a peep of this device, as well why it wasn’t announced alongside the 820 & 920.”
Regarding pricing, yeah, would be nice to have heard it already, but on the other hand once they do announce it all blogs and media will run another short story on it, giving Nokia, TMo and the phone itself another round of publicity. So it sort of works both ways.
We had heard many peeps of this device. Have you had your head in the proverbial bush?
However, clearly the Lumia 820 and 920 were the “base devices” so to speak. We’ll see carrier and market variants (with different bands, different local brandings and so on), but what Nokia announced were the base models from which it all stems from.
Lumia 810 is Lumia 820 designed for T-Mobile bands and with a special design for them. Verizon will have its own. Just because people didn’t believe these would come, doesn’t mean the weren’t real all the time. Of course they were real all the time.
I did expect the Verizon variant to come before T-Mobile, though. I wonder how soon or late we’ll see that one…
Did I say I have not heard about it before?
I would guess Verizon around mid-November.
I was referring to your quote, not you.
This honestly looks just like an iPhone 5.
With the upcoming merger with Metro PCS they will also get access to the 810.
Excellent! It’s 15g lighter too! Hopefully they can do a 920 variant that’s lighter too.
yeah, really, we don’t want people to curse nokia for dropping their heavy pans.. sorry i had to troll at this one
Oh, and the Lumia 810 (and 820) screen seems to be RGB (not PenTile) according to specs. Of course it makes sense since the screen is probably a close relative of the 4.3″ RGB AMOLED ClearBlack on Lumia 900…
It now appears the comparison sheet is still in flux at Nokia.com and missing many things we know to be there but also missing many things we’re not sure of… so chalk the above as uncertain at this time.
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/10/09/technical-specifications-nokia-lumia-810-vs-nokia-lumia-820/
T-Mobile has been saying for a while they are going to flip the switch on their HSPA+, allowing 21Mbps HSDPA. That would generally put them with AT&T and Verizon in speed (both are ~14Mbps real world speed) here in Los Angeles, CA. Losing 15g for the LTE radio is nice losing an LED in the flas isn’t.
Too bad they didn’t make this one with the 1280×768 resolution
The bid bitch for gsm customers wanting this 810 is that this is no unlocking of the Lumias to date. So id it’s branded, that’s all it’s going to work for.
Historically, T-Mobile was very unlock friendly. Is that no longer the case?
T-Mobile 710 still can not be unlocked. O was going to grab one to use on AT&T with my unlimited data, but was curbed when I found this out.
And your right. All you used to have to do is tell them you’re going abroad and they’d unlock it. Not the case anymore.
That is unfortunate.
If this is currently the case, then I guess there’s no longer a need for us to be loyal customers anymore, either. AT&T, isn’t looking so bad right now…
what? must they make different phone for each operator??
Now Nokia’s fight back has really started! This handsome hero of a device will lead the charge of Nokia’s offensive under the brave general Elop.
Hoorah. I’m so orgasmic seeing the fruit of the copulation of Nokia and Microsoft. Son of a gun you are. Die Samsung Die! Die Apple Die! Nokia is coming!
They will have to go against those two N9 looking HTC models.. we should wait and see how that goes.
very nice to see nokia doing this, appealing to different carriers with different models.
i used to be in the camp that thought less model variety is better, but i was wrong,
I am glad that Nokia is able to do something that does not leak before announcement. That 810 looks quite nice. I like that 810′s backside and cameras area more than 820′s. If black is glossy then it’s very nice.
The phone did leak some time ago. But I’m not sure its appearance did, so that’s a plus of course.