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Nokia Lumia 900 could arrive on other carriers later this year
Looking forward to getting your hands on the brand new Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone? Well, the good news is that its exclusivity for AT&T may only be a temporary one, at least 45 days according to a new rumor that has been sent in to Paul Thurrott at WinSuperSite. We guess that there are users on other networks that might want to get in on the Lumia 900 action but may be unwilling to make the switch over to AT&T’s network.
The rumor is claiming that pretty much all the major carriers will be getting their own versions of the Lumia 900, although to be honest at the moment Verizon is probably looking like the best candidate since at the moment they are the only other carrier offering 4G LTE connectivity. The rumors have also suggested that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be seeing a bump from the original 8MP to a 12MP camera.
Sounds like a long shot? Possibly. We suggest taking this piece of rumor with a grain of salt for now until more concrete information starts to surface. For those who might have forgotten, the Nokia Lumia 900 is Nokia’s new flagship Windows Phone handset that was recently unveiled at CES 2012. It sports 4G LTE connectivity, a 4.3” AMOLED clear black display, a 1,830,mAh battery and a front-facing camera, but otherwise its internals remains the same as the Lumia 800. This means we can expect a 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, an 8MP Carl Zeiss rear-facing camera with Windows Phone 7.5 running the show.
Now here is an interesting leaked render of what is allegedly known as the Nokia C1, which is supposed to be the next smartphone which will feature the Nokia logo – never mind the fact that the Finnish company had already sold its smartphone business to Microsoft some time back. Well, the most interesting aspect about this leaked render would be the fact that it sports an Android operating system on the foreground, while another model hiding behind it looks as though it runs on Windows 10 Mobile.
Does this mean that we will have to face not one, but two variants of the same device? Only time will be able to tell, but for the moment, it will be an agonizing wait until 2016 as that is when the alleged Nokia C1 smartphone will launch then.
So, you happen to be rocking to one of the older Lumia handsets from Nokia, and would love to check out what all the hoo-haa is about concerning Windows 10 Mobile. If you happen to live in Poland, then here is a spot of good news for you to kick start your week – the Windows 10 Mobile update will be heading to the likes of the Lumia 630, 635, 640, 735, and 830 this coming December 14, whereas those who happen to be making use of the Lumia 520, 532, 625, 720, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, and 1320, will have to wait until February 1st next year.
Again, bear in mind that the Windows 10 Mobile update will only affect those smartphones which were purchased from Orange in Poland, so if you happen to own any of the above mentioned devices but from different people, then you would have to give the updates a miss.
A quick look at the calendar shows that we are still in March – early March, in fact, and April is still some ways of. Still, this has not stopped the fact that an alleged leak of a Nokia 1100 has been benchmarked, and in that particular benchmark, it revealed that the Nokia 1100 would sport Android 5.0 Lollipop as the mobile operating system version of choice – how cool would that be if it were to be true?
Other hardware specifications in the alleged leaked benchmark sheet point to a quad-core MT6582 processor which has been clocked at 1.3GHz, a 720p resolution display, and most probably 512MB RAM. We would take this bit of information with more than just a pinch of salt – perhaps and entire tablespoonful.