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Nokia N97 Goes Official
We’ve all been patiently waiting to see what Nokia would come up with, and our patience has been rewarded. The release is certainly interesting, as Nokia has announced a new flagship phone, the N97, which is packed with features. The N97 has a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel resistive touchscreen display which supports tactile feedback, and a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out sideways from the phone. Dubbed the “world’s most advanced mobile computer†by Nokia, the phone also features an “always open†window to favorite internet or social networking sites. If the mentioned specifications weren’t enough, Nokia has also thrown in HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, 32GB on on-board memory, microSDHC card expansion up to 48GB, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, video capture up to 30fps and a battery that can last up to a day and a half of continuous audio playback, or 4.5 hours of video playback. Nokia will be offering that load of features for the phone at €550 ($693), and should be shipping in the first half of 2009. With a phone like this, HTC’s Touch Pro will need to be careful, or it might just get knocked off its perch.
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.