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Nokia still vague about Symbian’s demise
We all know that Nokia will be closing the doors on Symbian when the Finnish handphone manufacturer starts rolling out WP7 phones later this year. However, according to reports, it looks like Nokia are far from settled on a strategy with Windows Phone 7 at the moment. Apparently Nokia will continue releasing Symbian phones in 2011 and 2012, something they’ve branded as the “transition period.” Nokia plans to get as many WP7 customers as possible, and in order to do so, they want to make the end of Symbian device’s life feel like a natural progression to WP7 when they finally do get around to making such handsets. They’ve announced that the next batch of Symbian phones will be more powerful with GHz+ processing capabilities, faster graphics speeds, a major Symbian update this summer to give a new homescreen, new flexible widgets, new icons, a faster browser, new Navbar and many other changes. While it is good that they continue to support their Symbian phones, it sure looks like Nokia is trying hard to hold on to their dear operating system, and focusing their efforts on updating an OS doesn’t seem like the best way to spend resources – why not just focus on WP7 phones instead? You can head here to read more about Nokia’s promises for Symbian and Qt here.
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.