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Nokia N900 is world’s first mobile brain scanner
So your iPhone 4S is able to do a whole lot of things, backed by the classic “there’s an app for that” slogan, but don’t just rule out the Nokia N900 yet just because it is an older smartphone, not to mention having the spotlight moved to Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 smartphones today. It seems that the Nokia N900 still has some legs left underneath the hood, where it is touted to be the first mobile brain scanner in the world. Yes, that is right – a brain scanner in the smartphone itself is capable of reading and producing real-time data which can be used to interpret one’s feelings and reactions, and in a cause for optimism, it will take a few more months before one can scan one’s brains and interpret the captured data by downloading an app and picking up the phone itself for as cheap as $300.
The scanner was the result of the hard work of a team over at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where it will function by connecting a commercially available wireless 14-channel EEG headset to a Nokia N900 smartphone. The headset will do the job of transmitting the EEG data to the handset, where all the data will be decrypted after that, where it will be passed on to a reconstruction module which outputs a color visualization. Sounds great, right?
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.