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Nokia and Microsoft announce strategic partnership for Windows Phone
While Nokia and Symbian are closely tied together, it seems that Nokia will be looking beyond Symbian in the future. If you remember recent reports of Nokia’s CEO making a strong claim for change, it wouldn’t be too surprising to hear that Nokia and Microsoft have struck up a deal to see Windows Phone arrive on its devices. Such a move does make a certain amount of sense, since Nokia is facing a serious challenge from iOS, Android and other devices while Microsoft itself is having a hard time trying to dislodge rival platforms from the top. The latest announcement details plans for a broad strategic partnership to build a new global mobile ecosystem and we’ve got a video after the jump giving you an idea of What Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer think about the partnership. In essence, you can expect major changes such as:
- Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its main smartphone strategy, so expect Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia devices
- Nokia will help drive the future of Windows Phone, offering its expertise on hardware design, language support and more
- Bing will power Nokia’s search services, which is definitely news that will disappoint Google
- Nokia Maps will become a core part of Microsoft’s mapping services, and Maps will be integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine
- Nokia’s content and application store will be integrated with the Microsoft Marketplace
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.