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Nokia working on Superhydrophobic coating to keep your phones dry
Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally place your phone in a patch of water, or if you accidentally drop it into the toilet bowl or a sink and it gets all wet, and in some cases it stops working entirely? Well the good news for you is that Nokia is currently researching ways to help ensure that your device will be able to repel water through the use of Superhydrophobic coating, a coating that was inspired by the lotus leaf whereby water simply falls, bounces and rolls away without a trace, leaving the leaf clean and water repellent.
If you’re wondering why Superhydrophobic sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a higher level of hydrophobic coating that can be found on Teflon non-stick frying pans, with the main difference being that a Superhydrophobic coating ensures that water never reaches the surface thanks to the use of a nanostructure that traps a layer of air over the surface. On top of that, the Superhydrophobic coating is also expected to help prevent against fingerprint smudges and antireflection.
According to the team at the Nokia NRC in Cambridge, they are pretty close to perfecting a robust exterior Superhydrophobic coating, so if anything, it looks like Nokia’s future devices could be water repellent, although they have suggested that perhaps going on a deep sea dive with your phone unprotected might be pushing the boundaries a little bit. For more information and the video demonstration, pop on over to Nokia’s website.
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.