14 DAY TRIAL // With less than two weeks until the official unveil of the Windows Phone 8.1, new details on the devices that will be powered by the upcoming operating system emerge.
Nokia Lumia 930 (Martini) and Lumia 630 (Moneypenny) are two of the smartphones presumably running Windows Phone 8.1 when they launch in the coming months.
Although the devices have yet to be confirmed by the Finnish company, there have been many leaks that suggest that these smartphones are real and might go official sooner than we originally thought.
According to previous rumors, Nokia was said to hold a press event on April 19, where the company would launch its new lineup of Windows Phone devices, but in light of the new info that has just emerged, this is rather unlikely to happen now.
According to MyNokiaBlog, Microsoft plans to unveil at least two new smartphones at its BUILD 2014 dev conference, which is set to kick off on April 2.
These two devices are Nokia Lumia 930 and Lumia 630 and, as we have suspected, they will ship with Windows Phone 8.1 out of the box. These will be the first smartphones to be launched with the new operating system onboard, but a release date has yet to leak.
The insider that tipped MyNokiaBlog claims that Microsoft will introduce two variants of Nokia Lumia 630, single SIM and dual SIM, both of which will pack on-screen buttons.
While the Lumia 630 will be aimed at the low-end segment, the second smartphone tipped for an April 2 unveil, the Lumia 930, will cover the high-end spectrum.
We already know most of the Lumia 630 specs sheet, but Lumia 930 is still a mystery. There have been some speculations that the smartphone, also known as Nokia Martini, will pack a 4.5-inch full HD display, a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, but we’re not sure how reliable these leaks are.
Nevertheless, MyNokiaBlog claims that their source said that Nokia Martini was in fact a “re-purposed” Lumia Icon, which would go on sale globally in the following weeks. This makes sense, as we already know that Nokia Lumia Icon will receive an international version at some point.
In the same piece of news, Nokia’s other high-end smartphone codenamed “Goldfinger” has been reportedly pushed back, so we won’t see it at Microsoft’s BUILD 2014 conference. It’s unclear why the device has been delayed, but we will probably know more in the coming months, so stay tuned.