This week's wednesday saw a revoultion in the field of smartphones as Nokia showcased two new Lumia smartphones based on Windows Phone 8-Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, at a conference in New York, where they featured the new technology, "Wireless Charging".




As most of you would expect, this invention would run for the company's new bellwether. It is expected to give the comapny much required boost to stay in competition with the upcoming Apple's iphone 5 and Samsung's galaxy S3. A guaranteed advantage, that Lumia has over these Smartphone is its budget-friendly nature but expected price is yet to be announced.

The phone is featured with all the bells & whistles we have learned about Windows Phone 8, so far but one of the most outstanding feature, according to me is the offline map support , enabling you to navigate even when not connected to Internet.

Lets glance at the unique features of Lumia 920 and 820, as it it might lure you in buying this device.




Wireless Charging is what, has grabbed the attention all over the globe



This wireless charging technology is basically based upon Qi technology (pronounced 'chee'), a proprietary interface standard created by the Wireless Power Consortium.


Device will be provided with a charging pillow as a base station, where the phone has to be placed. The pillow-broad, flat and not exactly comfortable, is featured with induction coils which generates an alternating electromagnetic field. This induces current in the inbuilt coil of the device. This current is used to charge the phone.



The charging pillow has got to be the most bizzare and fun stuff, according to me. Featuring it with a neat trick up its sleeve, it has Minimised the incommodiousness of the charging options. Any app can be launched by the virtue of an inbuilt NFC chip when you place it on the pillow, you just have to say it!!! So, you could easily put a 920 down, keep it charged and automatically open your music player or alarm clock.

And for those who cannot get enough of technology, many companies have launched accesories such as speakers to go along with Qi, foreseeing its potential to be the mainstream device charging option. Placing it on the speaker will get your phone charged and lets you enjoy music.



Nokia definetly has put up a standard to which rest of the upcoming smartphones will be compared to. It will be interesting to see how will this launch effect iphone 5's release due on 21st september. With TFT capacitive touch screen and 1GB RAM along with all the aforesaid feature this is , without a doubt, going to blow your minds of.