14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia has been long rumored to plan the release of a successor for its high-end Nokia N8 smartphone, but specifics on the matter have been lacking until now.
Recent reports, however, suggest that the company might be nearing the release of this device, and that the company could put an end to any other Symbian plans as soon as the new phone arrives.
Rumor has it that there is a Nokia 801 smartphone in the pipeline, and that it will run under Symbian, just as N8 did.
In fact, the said device has just made an appearance online, showing an outer design strikingly resembling the Lumia 800 Windows Phone from the Finnish handset vendor.
The new device might run under the Nokia Belle OS flavor (the Symbian Belle platform with a new name), and some suggest that it is actually coming soon.
A photo that made it to SmartphoneGeeks, and which is said to be showing the real thing, offers us a better glimpse at the smartphone.
Clearly, Nokia does consider the N9 design to be a great one, thus the emergence of the fourth handset to sport it (Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 were both unveiled with the same design).
The Nokia 801 is expected to arrive on shelves with a 4-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen display on the front, capable of delivering a 640 x 360 pixels resolution (a low resolution for a flagship device, that’s for sure).
The same as Lumia 800, the upcoming device is expected to pack a 1.4GHz application processor, complemented by 512MB of RAM. No info on the handset’s storage capabilities have emerged.
The specs list of this smartphone also includes a 12-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with dual LED flash and support for 1080p video recording, as well as NFC capabilities.
For the time being, we’ll take all this with a grain of salt, but we’ll keep an eye out for more details on the matter. After all, this is said to be the last Symbian handset from Nokia. It might also be the last one in the world.