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Nokia 808 PureView now available in the US
Back at MWC 2012 earlier this year, Nokia took the wraps off the Nokia 808 PureView Symbian smartphone. Granted Symbian isn’t exactly the dominating operating system at the moment, but given Nokia’s success with the N8 and with the 808 PureView being the successor, we guess die-hard Nokia fans will not care too much. After all with a whopping 41MP camera sensor with Carl Zeiss lens being packed in the 808 PureView, its operating system is probably the last thing on many peoples’ mind. Anyway if the 808 PureView is a phone you would love to get your hands on, Nokia has announced that the handset will be available for purchase in the US via Amazon.com where it has been priced at $699.99 (inc. shipping). It is unlocked and off contract, which means that if you were hoping for carrier subsidy, you’re out of luck. It will be compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile networks although it will only support the latter’s 2G network. Head on over to Nokia’s website in the source link below for more details. So, who’s planning on getting their hands on the Nokia 808 PureView?
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.