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Those of you hoping to take part on the deal Nokia is offering up with some of their new Lumia models, that being a free wireless charger with purchase, will be glad to know that the official claim page is up now. It’s not quite active, but it certainly is up – letting you know that on the 16th of November you’ll be able to come back and grab that charger with a fist full of free. This offer is available here in the USA to AT&T owners of the Lumia 920 and may very well be spreading to more customers soon.

This site will also be working for Phones4U customers in the UK and Ireland, this working for purchases of both the Lumia 920 and the 820 as well (you’ll need the replacement plate for the 820, of course). Phones4U notes: “Free Wireless Charging Plate offer only applies to customers who have purchased a qualifying Nokia Lumia 820 or Nokia Lumia 920 promotional handset available through any P4U store, online or call centre between 02/11/12 and 31/12/12.” This might very well mean that it’s Nokia, not just the carrier, who is making this offer happen.

If so, Nokia will be bringing the heat to many more carriers in the near future – we must assume. Nokia’s wireless charging integration is a relatively simple thing (or will seem like it in a few years time), but at the moment they’ve got it unique to their brand. With the Lumia lineup working with wireless charging AND having this charging plate available for free with purchase of the original unit, Nokia places themselves in a great position – a great value offer being given to consumers. We’ve had our look at the charger already and have found it quite addicting.

Have a peek at our Nokia Lumia 920 review and see our hands-on posts with Lumia 820 NFC and charging as well as our original extended-cut hands-on with the Lumia 920 for both City Lens and PureView. Of course we’ve got additional posts surrounding the PureView technology in the camera as well – see the timeline below for more!

Thanks Steve!

Nokia Lumia Free Wireless Charger page up but not out is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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AT&T has finally unveiled its pricing and launch dates for their range of Windows Phone 8 devices. Nokia’s Lumia 920 will be available for a cool $99.99 on November 9, with pre-orders starting on November 7. Nokia’s Lumia 820 will also launch on November 9 and will be priced at $49.99 with pre-orders starting on November 7. HTC’s Windows Phone 8X starts at $99.99 for the 8GB version and $199.99 for the 16GB. The 8X will be available sometime “before Thanksgiving.”

AT&T also revealed an exclusive version of the Windows Phone 8X in Limelight (yellow) as well as California Blue, and they’re the only carrier to offer this device in such colors. These exclusive colors will only be available for the 8GB version of the phone. AT&T also says they will include a free wireless charging plate with each purchase of Lumia 920 for a limited time.

Nokia’s Lumia 920 is the company’s new flagship handset, and it features 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display with a 1280×768 resolution, and it’s protected by Gorilla Glass 2. It features a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz with 1GB of RAM. The 920′s younger brother, the Lumia 820, features the same processor and RAM specs, but has a slightly smaller 4.3-inch display.

HTC’s Windows Phone 8X has a 4.3-inch display with a 1280×720 resolution. The device also features and Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz and 1GB of RAM. Other than the exclusive AT&T colors, the 8X comes in Graphite Black and Flame Red. AT&T has not announced the release date for the 8X, nor when you can pre-order one, although the carrier says the phone will be out before Thanksgiving.

AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 coming November 9 for $99 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Carphone Warehouse is now taking pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 820 handset, and there’s good news for the cash bereft — it’s free on contract, and the reseller will toss in a £45 wireless charging plate to boot. You can commit £29 per month to O2, Vodafone or Orange to avoid paying up front, or grab an unencumbered handset at £380 for the 4.3-inch Windows Phone 8 device in black, red or white. For that, you’ll get a 4G-capable smartphone with an 800 x 480 OLED screen, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM and 8-megapixel camera. The free extra offer will expire when shipping starts, so if the WP8 launch has you all charged up, hit the source.

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This week when the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 hit the market with Windows Phone 8, you’ll be seeing updates to Nokia Music as well. This update will bring a variety of new features including no less than Dolby Headphone support – that’s high definition beat blasts for your eardrums like never before! Also included in this update to Nokia Music is full Artist Profile Pages – you’ll be able to get more information on the artists you love than you ever though you’d have wanted!

Each Artist Profile page will include a biography, Twitter messages from their official Twitter page, and upcoming gigs across the planet. These Artist Profile pages also include new Nokia mixes that can be triggered from one of their tracks directly from the page the track is on. This makes it easier than ever to get the lovely precision-collected sets of music you want!

UPDATE: Nokia has confirmed that this update will also be pushed to devices running Windows Phone 7.8 as well – good deal!

Worth noting is that Nokia Music only exists on Nokia devices at the moment and for the foreseeable future. At the moment it appears that this update will be hitting the Lumia 920 and 820 first, but no word has been confirmed on whether or not previous Lumia devices will be able to work with these new features.

The Lumia 920 and 820 will be in stores this weekend internationally and soon – very soon – here in the USA on carriers galore as well. We’ll be taking closer looks at the 920 and 820 in addition to the different carrier iterations of the phones in turn. Stay tuned to SlashGear for more Windows Phone 8 action as well!

Nokia Music update ushers in the Lumia 920 and 820 with Artist Profiles is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hopefully AT&T subscribers weren’t spooked when the Nokia Lumia 920 first passed through the FCC in only its non-US guise, and its lower-end 820 cousin only as the (currently unofficial) Verizon-ready Lumia 822. The two Windows Phone 8 flagships have had follow-up approvals in GSM versions that are unmistakably destined for AT&T and Canadian carriers. Never mind the slightly distracting RM-820 model number on the Lumia 920; it reveals the 920’s distinctive curved design, 700MHz LTE in AT&T’s range and AWS-based LTE for both AT&T as well as its Canadian neighbor. The Lumia 820 is equally identifiable as the RM-824, even if it limits the LTE access to AT&T’s network. We haven’t seen any shocking revelations from either device, although we weren’t expecting any from phones that hew so closely to the original templates. The filings mostly set expectations for Microsoft’s October 29th event — now that the likely stars of the show are cleared to make their appearances, the companies involved should breathe more easily.

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