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Nokia makes fun of iPhone ahead of Lumia 900 launch
Yes, we do know that pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 900 have already started at AT&T and Walmart, with a white version also being prepared for a debut soon, but what other way did Nokia employ to bring more attention to their upcoming flagship model that runs on the Windows Phone operating system? A huge ad campaign is one of the traditional methods, and the Finnish smartphone manufacturer decided to stick to this tried and true road, starting off by having some fun at the expense of Apple’s iPhone 4S. Check out all three ads by Nokia after the jump.
There is a new website known as smartphonebetatest.com that features former Saturday Night Live star Chris Parnell waiting patiently in a room surrounded by monitors, sporting a clock that is ticking down to April 6th, located right above him. At the bottom lies a trio of videos, where each one will display executives who are rather reluctant to accept the flaws of a device which is all too similar to the iPhone. There will also be a narrator saying at the start of the video, “If you ever thought that maybe your smartphone wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be, that’s because it wasn’t.” Perhaps Nokia is taking a leaf out of Motorola’s book, where Verizon’s 2009 ads for the Motorola droid poked fun at the iPhone and established Android as a force to be reckoned with.
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.