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Great news, America! Our first ever tablet, the Nokia Lumia 2520, will be available in stores starting next week. If you want the power and versatility of a computer in a tablet format, you will love the Nokia Lumia 2520, which comes with blistering-fast innards, day-long battery life and Windows RT 8.1.

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At the same time, the phone is 4G/LTE-ready, and, delivers mobile entertainment from online video services up to 10x faster.

Product manager Vinay Jayakumar told Conversations, “The transition to 4G is gathering pace. With a super-fast internet connection, there’s a real demand for big, beautiful screens that help bring all the content to life – this is where the Nokia Lumia 625 arrives with a really competitive price to match.”

The Nokia Lumia 625 is also notable for its stand-out design, something Nokia is famous for with the award-winning Lumia range. Vinay says it’s the element of the phone that makes him most proud. Rounded surfaces all over – even down to the edges of the glass – give the phone an organic feel like a smooth pebble. Together with a matt finish, this is a smartphone that you want to roll around in your hand.

Available in orange, yellow, bright green, white and black, the layered polycarbonate on the changeable shells gives the surface of the Lumia 625 a translucent quality that signals an evolution in materials design. We cover this and the other design aspects more closely in a separate interview.

The Nokia Lumia 625 comes with all the amazing Nokia apps and services that enrich the navigation, entertainment and imaging possibilities of the Windows Phone 8 operating system. It also comes with the latest Lumia Amber update.

The update brings significantly improved algorithms that offer better noise reduction, colour reproduction, exposure control and autofocus to every phone across the Lumia range. On the Lumia 920, controls to adjust the ISO settings of the camera from 800 to 3200 allow for even better low light performance.

Debuted on the Nokia Lumia 925, this new camera app is ideal for taking pictures involving people and movement. Starting today, you will be able to get the app from the Store after downloading Lumia Amber to your phone.

The app brings a slew of different options – use Best Shot to find the sharpest image from a series of ten; combine several shots of people in movement into one with Action Shot; heighten the appearance of speed by blurring the background with Motion Focus; create ideal group shots by choosing the best faces from a series with Change Faces, or remove unwanted objects from your pictures.

Note that Smart Camera’s performance scales according to the capabilities of your device. On the Nokia Lumia 720, 620 and 520, the burst mode used for some effects takes seven pictures rather than ten, and these are a lower resolution than on devices with more RAM (one-megapixel rather than five). Still great for social sharing on the Web.

On top of the Lumia Amber update, the newly announced Nokia Pro Camera will be available for the Lumia 920, Lumia 925, and Lumia 928 starting today. Once you’ve taken great videos with your updated Lumia, you can edit them quickly with the Nokia Video Trimmer app and upload them to YouTube with Nokia Video Upload. Both apps will be available in the Store starting today.

But it’s not all about pictures. The Lumia Amber software update also contains a few more, keenly awaited extras.

Perhaps one of the features that has been most requested on Nokia Lumiasmartphones. Nokia Glance Screen brings a clock to your screen when the phone is inactive, along with indicators to show the battery level when running on a low battery or the phone is charging, and whether your phone is set to ‘silent’.You can activate the Nokia Glance screen in the ‘display and touch’ section in Settings by swiping left to ‘glance’. Nokia Glance screen will be available for all WP8 Lumia devices except the Nokia Lumia 520 and Lumia 625, which have a smaller display memory.

Two favourite features from older Nokia phones that users have asked for. Flipping the phone over is a great and easy way to mute an incoming call. Double tapping the screen is something many people prefer to using the unlock key. Both of them are optional in case you’re worried about having accidents – in our experience, though, that never happens.

You may have already picked this up through another update. We wrote about it here. Briefly, if you’re running out of space on your phone and you want to free some up, you can find out the biggest culprits and deal with them (perhaps you never delete your photos, despite uploading them to SkyDrive, for example).

 

Finally, with the Lumia Amber update installed on your phone, you can update your HERE Maps even easier and faster, as only those roads and other map features that have been updated will be downloaded — you don’t have to install whole countries anew.

The rollout starts now first for the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 in selected countries as well as the Lumia 521, Lumia 810, and Lumia 928 in the US. Exact delivery timings will vary by region, phone and operator, but we expect the update to reach your Lumia 520, Lumia 620, Lumia 720, Lumia 820 or Lumia 920 by the end of September.

For consumers with Windows 8 devices today, Windows 8.1 will be a free update via an easy download from the Windows Store* starting on October 18th. Windows 8.1 will be a must-have update for those devices - bringing new features and improvements such as greater personalization, Bing Smart Search, and more than 20 new and improved Microsoft apps and services. We are excited to be delivering such an important update to customers in just one month and nearly a year after launching Windows 8. However we also recognize there will be some folks who may want to upgrade devices running older versions of Windows to Windows 8.1. The information in this blog post is meant for those people.

Consumers who are not using a Windows 8 device will be able to buy Windows 8.1, either as a download from Windows.com or at your local store as a retail packaged DVD product. While pricing varies by market, in the U.S., Windows 8.1 will be available for $119.99 ERP (U.S.) and Windows 8.1 Pro will be available for $199.99 ERP (U.S.). The pricing and editions for Windows 8.1 are similar to what we have today for Windows 8.