Microsoft Lumia 830 draped in gold outer-frame set to make debut on 8 January
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Technology giant Microsoft has started implementing a slew of reforms on the erstwhile Nokia smartphone brand, and very recently launched the first non-Nokia Lumia smartphone, the Lumia 535 that is now available for purchase in retail stores across multiple countries of the world.
Now, the Redmond-based company is seemingly looking at continuing its chain of technical reforms on other erstwhile Nokia Lumia smartphones.
According to a Nokia Power User report, the high-end Lumia 830 will be draped in gold on the outside frame and officially launched on 8 January.
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This gold-variant smartphone will be a limited-edition device as per the Nokia User report which has also outed various images that are said to be graphical representations of the gold Lumia 830 smartphone.
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The device is said to get a gold-leather back panel, and will reportedly be launched initially in China before expanding to other countries of the world.
This limited-edition Gold Lumia 830, once official could potentially be the cynosure of all eyes considering the fact that the smartphone offers above-average technical aspects, and these combined with the handset's gold outer frame could add that touch of prestige for people preferring to own premium high-end smartphones.
The key hardware-aspects of the gold Lumia 830 will be identical to that of the current non-gold global variant:
- 5in IPS display having resolutions of 720 x 1280, and pixel density of 294 pixels per inch (ppi)
- Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 operating platform; straight out of the box
- 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
- 10 MP rear camera with Carl Zeiss optics
- 0.9 MP front camera, for video calling
- 1GB RAM
- 16GB internal storage
- MicroSD card slot for expansion of internal storage up to 128 GB
- 4G-LTE, HSPA, GSM, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi and microUSB connectivity supported
- 2200 mAh Li-Ion battery, offering a talk-time of up to 14 hours on 3G and standby time of up to 528 hours
When officially released, the gold-edition Lumia 830 could do well to compete with various Apple iPhones that have a higher street price in comparison to the former's £258 price tag in the United Kingdom.
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