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Lumia 800 hiding NFC under the bonnet [Not confirmed]
WPBench, the benchmarking app for Windows Phone 7 listed the Lumia 610 with a NFC label. While there is no basis of truth in the nugget of information, a twitter ‘conversation’ between a fan and Nokia Hong Kong hinted that NFC could also be hiding within the single piece of plastic that makes up the Lumia 800. The information comes from Nokia Hong Kong’s official microblogging site. A conversation between an employee of Nokia Hong Kong and a random fan on twitter which has been translated as you can see above might have caused the stir.
According to Nokia HK, the Lumia 800 contains a hidden NFC chip which will only be activated with a software update to the next version ‘Apollo’ which will unlock the power of NFC on the Lumia 800. This might mean that there is a NFC chip in the Lumia 610 as well. It looks like we are going to have to check that and the validity of the NFC claim for the Lumia 800 out for ourselves.
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.