Both the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 officially went on sale today in India, marked by a special event at the Nokia Store in Gurgaon’s Ambience Mall.

As you can imagine, the store was packed to the hilt and there was a Lumia 800 shaped cake to go along with the festivities.

The icing on the cake was that those who had pre-orded their devices at that particular store, walked away with a free XBOX 360 along with their shiny new Lumia 800. To top that, Nokia has also invited Tennis …

On December 10, Nokia India held five simultaneous events across Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kolkata to mark the launch of the Lumia 800 in India. Right in in the middle of popular malls in all these cities was the Nokia Arc, and tons of Lumia 800 branding.

There were live demos of the Lumia 800 along with pre-booking options, but the surprise element was a flash mob, that apparently started at the same time in all these 5 cities. I was at the Mumbai event, and here is how it …

The pre-orders for the Lumia 800 in India have already started and the device is expected to go on sale come Dec. 15. Nokia’s marketing campaign is also in full swing and the latest activity to come our way is a simultaneous 5 city event that is going down on 10th December, Saturday, 6 pm onwards.

Nokia India is promising an amazing experience that’ll ‘blow our minds’ away. So if you’re in Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai or Bangalore, you might want to head to one of the following venues on Saturday …

Remember Tizen? The brand new open source platform that MeeGo made way for back in September, yes that one. Tizen is backed by Intel and Samsung and an initial release of Tizen is only intended for Q1 2012, while devices are only expected in mid-2012. So its not surprising that we haven’t heard much about it for the last few weeks. However it seems its not all quiet on the Tizen front.

The first Tizen Asia Summit has been announced and taking place in Beijing on the 8 and 9th of …

With the Lumia 800, Nokia and Microsoft’s synergies have finally been able to intersect after months of anticipation and the end result is nothing short of impressive. With the Nokia N9, we saw Nokia create a new class of device that was designed with the ‘eyes up’ philosophy in mind, with Windows Phone Microsoft tried to put people first, giving you the ability to quickly glance at information which is relevant to you.

We all know that the Lumia 800 is one amazingly beautiful device, but since this was going to …

I called the Nokia N9 ‘easily the best looking device on the market today‘ and that statement still stands with the Lumia 800. The capacitive buttons don’t distract one bit from the beauty of the device, and in fact I think it makes the device look better. The premium polycarbonate unibody design, deep colours and the clean lines make the Lumia 800 a very beautiful phone indeed.
It is the kind of device that you will take out of your pocket, just to admire it beauty. Those meetings or lunches that you …

While Nokia’s Drive app will be exclusive to its Windows Phones, the Nokia Maps application will be available on the Windows Phone marketplace for all Windows Phone devices. The application is a little different from what you are used to on Symbian devices and follows the Metro style UI.
Another difference is you cannot pre-load maps on this application, that is restricted to Nokia Drive. So you will need an active data connection to pull the maps and other location information around you. But once your get that out of the …

At Nokia World, Nokia introduced a brand new social location service called ‘Nokia Pulse’ that aims at helping you answer the “where are you?”, “how do I get there?”, “where should we meet?” questions that keep popping up in real life.

So, how does it work exactly? Imagine, you have just arrived at the airport. What do you typically do? Call/SMS someone close, say from your family to coordinate a pickup …

One of the core differentiating features on Nokia’s Windows Phones will be the Nokia Drive app. Different from Nokia Maps, which will be available for everyone at the Windows Marketplace, Drive is Nokia’s Navigation app that lets you pre-load maps and use the phone as an offline navigation device.
The app has been created with an in car experience in mind, so the buttons are huge so that you can easily press them across the dashboard if you have the phone mounted. The interface is simple so that you take your …

Here on Day 2 of Nokia World, we had a fun little performance from the UK’s Got Talent group Diversity and I was able to film some of it on the Lumia 800. So if you’re wondering about what sort of video capture will Nokia’s first Windows Phone device be capable of, look no further.
Make sure you watch the video in HD.