Nokia announces Lumia 525, a successor to it's one of the best ever sold budget friendly Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 520. The new 'Eye Candy' comes with an upgraded Random Access Memory (RAM) from the previous 512 megabytes to a complete gigabyte power, keeping up the traditional Lumia polycarbonate chassis.
The new Lumia member packs a Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset clocked at 1GHz, four-inches IPS LCD screen of WVGA 800 x 480 resolution display marked at 235 pixels-per-inch, eight gigabytes of mass memory (expandable via microSD card slot), 1 gigabyte of RAM, five megapixels primary camera gearing-up a 1/4-inch sensor capable of shooting 720p videos, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, 1,430mAh powered battery and Windows Phone 8 with Lumia Black operating system. The handset is measured at 119.9 x 64 x 9.9 millimeters in size, 124 grams in weight and comes with Black, Red, White and Yellow. The Lumia 525 arrives with additional seven gigabytes of free cloud storage on SkyDrive.
We still have no specific details on the phone's availability or pricing yet from Nokia, but according to sources lines, we suspect the price to fall in line about $180 for an off-contract model and shipping detailed by next month, December.
Source: Nokia, Engadget