Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone event live blog

Nokia and Microsoft are jointly organizing an press conference to launch new Nokia Lumia phones with Windows 8. In about 15 minutes time, the event will kick off at Wednesday 6:30 a.m PT/ 9:30 a.m ET (7:15 pm Nepali time) and the world will know if the rumor for Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 or earlier rumor about 'Phi', 'Arrow' and 'Atlas' comes true. I will be bringing the live blog of the Nokia Microsoft event, with compilation from engadget, cnet, and PCworld. Stay Tuned.

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"This is Lumia, the world's most innovative smartphone. Thank you very much." Elop Concludes the show.

"The next app developer to hit it really really big will be on Windows." Ballmer

"Perhaps as importantly as anything else, we bring a developer platform and a store in a common way to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8."

"We integrate in the Microsoft account, a single place to log in and get access to SkyDrive, Skype, and Outlook.com."

"We bring the power of Bing as both a search engine and a set of technologies that support NUI."

"Over the course of a month or two we'll see the rest of the Windows Phone 8 software."

"The launch today of the two new Lumia devices really fills out of the proposition in a really powerful way." Ballmer

Ballmer and Elop giving broader context of Microsoft with Nokia.

Stephen Elop coming back.

New purple color and wireless charging.

Nokia Lumia 820 specs: "4.3-inch display", Built in NFC, a 1650mAh battery and microSD slot.

Unveiling Nokia Lumia 820.

The Lumia 920 is a phone that really adapts to your life and not the other way around and he says there is no need of extra camera with you when you have got 920 in your pocket.

Camera can be held so smooth, you can capture all that extra light for the night photography without flash.

Camera works more effective than the high end DSLRs.

Object image stabilization works to hold the camera steady even when your hand is shaking.

Pure View Camera lets the shutter open for longer time for more exposure.

Cinemagraph lens takes a capture and does some processing to animate parts of the image like GIF maker.

Smart shoot lets you analyze and finds the objects that are moving and tap to remove the people in your images. For instance it helps in taking a picture in an art gallery with moving people around.

Angry Birds Roost app is an integrated experience that allows me to discover the best of Angry Birds.

Address and phone number information provided within City Lens.

City Lens- Use your camera as a way to explore the real world around you.

Nokia Music is coming to the United States, should be downloadable in the Windows Phone Marketplace any moment now.

launching Nokia Music and the tapping to turn on Speaker demonstration.

Integrated NFC Near field Communication.

Introducing the JBL power up.

Lumia 920 comes with inbuilt wireless charging.

Super sensitive touch allows you to touch the display with gloves

WXGA, higher than 720p resolution.

Brightest smartphone HD display ever.

He says its the World's most innovative smartphone with curved glass display in Slate grey, Red, and Yellow colors.

Kevin Shields from Nokia is coming on stage to discuss the Lumia 920.

It chooses the one that it thinks is the best.

Blink Lens app, written by Microsoft's Research team to get best picture of a face from a lot of frames taken by the camera.

Even third-party photos will be uploaded to SkyDrive automatically.

Full resolution auto upload of photos to SkyDrive in Windows Phone 8.

camera button to engage the Microsoft Photosynth lens- third party application for camera.

pinch zoom is now supported with usual press and hold camera button function in Windows Phone.

Demonstrating Camera in Nokia 920.

Joe tweets first ever screenshot pic from Windows https://twitter.com/joebelfiore/status/243357525167194112

Screenshots now supported in Windows Phone 8

IE: an excellent HTML5 web site as part of customized Start Screen.

Showing Internet explorer, "You can change the button in IE to favorites or tabs"

CNN app for windows, "CNN has built an app and what they're going to do with Windows Phone 8 is support some of the new features."

Over 100,000 apps backward compatible to Windows 7 apps.

Aggregation of text messages, Facebook messages and Facebook posts together.

Joe showing how you can shrink tiles down to medium and small ones.

Start Screen experience with small tiles with Windows 8 in Nokia 920.

Now Joe Belfiore talking about Windows 8 features for Nokia 920.

Fat boy Recharge Pillow: "Fatboy is one of the many partners we are working with to make wireless charging fit into your everyday live."

Built-in wireless charging- through Qi charging technology.

Up to 30 percent more battery efficient than quad-core alternatives.

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor.

2000 mAh battery.

Nokia 920 specs: 4.5 inch curved glass display.

The screen color tone and brightness adjusts automatically based on the sun light.

"Nokia City Lens is only the first application to use this approach, Nokia Maps will also get augmented reality."

" Nokia City lens allows you to see the names of restaurants, cafes, on your smartphone display." -Nokia Drive and Transport features

"When you found a route in Maps, you can launch Nokia Drive for free voice navigation out of the box."

Harlow talking about Offline maps-a key feature of the Nokia Maps experience.

PureView lets the shutter stay open longer.

"Nokia PureView stands for the latest smartphone camera innovation and the highest quality images and video."

Nokia Lumia 920 unveiled with smartest camera ever on phone and wireless charging.

"As Stephen said, we've taken several important steps over the last 18 months." Jo

Jo Harlow is coming on stage to discuss Lumia.

There's so much more innovation in the space ahead: Elop

Proxy browser in Asha is saving users in India money on data. Elop discussing Nokia Asha range of devices.

Elop discussing Nokia's Strategy. "First, we joined the Windows Phone ecosystem. We shared a vision with Microsoft that we could create a new smartphone experience."