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Nokia Lumia 900 might not get Windows 8 [Rumor]
With the alleged largest launch so far coming up for the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone, potential users might want to be a bit careful about what lies in the future for their device. Our friends over at IntoMobile paid a visit to Nokia’s HQ and shot the question “How confident can people be that this handset will get the next major Windows Phone update which many are expecting toward the end of the year?” Chris Searight, Nokia Marketing Launch Manager said, “We don’t know yet” and that even they are very anxious to know what comes next.
While it might definitely be more comforting to think that he might have misspoken, Nokia and Microsoft are known to be sharing a very ‘unique’ relationship and allegedly, it is more than likely that they do know what is happening but their reluctance to say anything about it does make one feel a bit uneasy. A better way of presenting a message than “We don’t know yet” might also ease the pit in stomachs of fans of the upcoming Lumia 900.
In their defense, all this uncertainty does not point in the direction of the phone not getting the update to Windows 8 at all but even if it didn’t, the device with its excellent specs would still be a solid handset even if it just ran Windows Phone Mango. That said, it might not be a good idea to say things like “We don’t know” and “We are anxious to know what comes next”, when Nokia is at the start of their struggle to make a come-back after a truly turbulent year in the smartphone industry for them.
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.