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Nokia Lumia 900 available for pre-order from Microsoft’s retail outlets
If you’ve been meaning to get the Nokia Lumia 900, and if you can’t wait for AT&T to officially launch the device, the good news is that you can preorder your device from Microsoft’s brick and mortar retail outlets. Yes, it would seem that by paying $25 up-front, customers will be able to pre-order Nokia’s upcoming flagship Windows Phone, but apart from that the full pricing of the device has not yet been revealed (for both on- and off-contract).
The Nokia Lumia 900, for those who might have forgotten, is essentially the Lumia 800 with a larger display. What this means is that we can expect a 1.4GHz processor with 512MB of RAM under the hood, an 8MP rear-facing Carl Zeiss camera, a 4.3” AMOLED Clear Black display, a front-facing camera, a 1,830mAh battery with Microsoft Windows 7.5 Mango on board with support for AT&T’s 4G LTE network.
Previous rumors had pegged the device for a March launch on AT&T, but if you’d like to pre-order your device today, a trip down to a brick and mortar Microsoft retail outlet might be in order.
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.