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First two Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices called W7 and W8?
Eldar Murtazin, the man who seemingly knows everything about a phone before it gets released has recently revealed the names to the first two Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices. Recently announcing on his blog and on Twitter, the first two Nokia WP7 phones will be the W7 and W8. Apparently there are 4 models in development right now. The W7 will be a test phone that is rumored to be the first device on the market and will be the standard Nokia WP7 phone used to test the market and it might be arriving in this fall.
The W8 will be an N8-like phone that runs WP7 instead of Symbian. It will feature the same build, including the 12 megapixel camera found on the original phone. The internals of the N8 might be improved, but there’s no confirmation on that. But if it does hit the market, rumored to be early next year, it is expected to be the most powerful WP7 smartphone.
Another model in the works is a QWERTY-keyboard slider, with a metal shell and a touchscreen. Lastly we’ll be seeing a cheaper variant of the W7 featuring the same internals, but made from lower quality materials to make it a budget/entry-level phone. No word on how Eldar Murtazin knows what he knows but he usually is right on the dot when it comes to these things. Head over to his blog for more details.
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.