The phone maker is scheduled to hold a Nokia World event Sept. 5 and 6 in Helsinki focused primarily on the company’s “operator and retail partners.” The event would be a perfect time to unveil a new Lumia lineup to get its business partners interested in upcoming devices and plan strategies for pushing the phones at the retail level. Bloomberg in early August first reported that Nokia planned to unveil new Windows Phone 8 handsets during Nokia World.
The iPhone Cometh
The purported new Apple smartphone would run iOS 6, a new version of the mobile OS due out in the fall, and may feature a 4-inch display with a fifth row of home screen icons. The device could also come with near-field communication and a smaller dock connector.
There’s no word yet on what Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 handsets would look like or what hardware features they might have. But based on what’s coming to Windows Phone 8 we can guess the devices would have a quad-core processor, NFC, and an SD card slot for removable storage.
Microsoft in June said that Windows Phone 8 would launch in the fall.
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