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hello i'm luke westaway 15x here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we're at the Nokia stand and we're taking a look at the Lumia 720 now the best way to think about the Lumia 720 is the sort of light version of the 920 because it feels broadly the same and the design is very very similar but the specs are just a little bit more modest you get a 1 gigahertz dual-core processor this 4.3 inch screen has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels so not quite as high as the 720p on the 920 it still looks quite good though it's a very bright colorful screen so that's a positive sign certainly on the back there's the option to get wireless charging covers so there's no wireless charging built-in but you can get this optional cover for it which means you'll be able to put it on a docking station and charge the phone without plugging it in around the back is a 6.7 megapixel camera and there's a front-facing camera as well there's eight gigabytes of on-board storage and brilliantly there's a microSD card slot so if that's not enough space you can bump it up yourself as savvy tech fans will have already noticed the Lumia 720 is running Windows Phone 8 which is Microsoft's mobile operating system is very colorful you get these live tiles on the front feels very smooth to move through and nokia has made a real effort to stick some of its own apps on here to try and really sell this particular brand of Windows phones so you get things like Nokia music which streams and pre-made music playlists to your phone you also get all of Nokia's Maps applications Nokia is quite big into mapping and navigation so that's things like here city lens here maps and here drive+ which is in beta at the moment and you also get some camera tweaks like Nokia's various lenses and this cinemagraph app which creates a still image with a part of the picture that moves it's a little bit like the cinema Graham app that you might be familiar with if you own a rival operating system so that's pretty standard so far there's not a lot that this phone offers over other Windows Phone devices but it does have one trick up its sleeve and that's the price this phone is going to be on sale for 249 euros which I we think is quite a good deal for a phone that feels every bit as slick and speedy as what a couple of years ago you'd be paying a lot more money for and certainly windows phone is doing better in the budget market some recent windows phones that are a bit cheaper have been very good very good performance so that is quite exciting i'm excited about the low price this phone should be out before the summer i'm luke westaway for cnet and this is the Nokia Lumia 720