14 DAY TRIAL // Following the release of the first Lumia smartphones to run under the Windows Phone 8.1 platform right from the start, namely the Lumia 630, Lumia 635, and Lumia 930, some more similar devices appear set to arrive on shelves in the not-too-distant future.
A leaked release schedule for three new Nokia phones has emerged online courtesy of evleaks, suggesting that we might see these phones made official sometime in the August-September timeframe.
The leaked document shows that three devices are in bound, and that a sale decision on the first of these phones would be made in late July, while expected to occur in late August for the other two.
However, the actual release is said to take place about 3 or 4 weeks later, which means that we’ll see them launched in late August and late September, respectively.
The first of the three is said to sport model number RM-1017, which suggests that we might see it made official as the Lumia 530, long said to be the successor to the cheapest Windows Phone handset out there, namely the Lumia 520.
The smartphone was spotted online a few times before with model numbers RM-1018 and RM1020 attached to it, and has even received the necessary approvals from the FCC and from Thailand’s telecoms regulator.
The second Nokia device spotted in said leaked release schedule is the RM-984, which also emerged online a few times before, and which is said to be a successor to the Lumia 720.
Supposedly set to arrive on shelves as Lumia 730, the mobile phone was spotted in the AdDuplex database with a 5-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a 720p resolution.
Little is known on the third handset that emerged in the aforementioned leaked release schedule, namely the Nokia RM-1028, though some suggest that we might see it launched as the Lumia 830 that has recently been rumored with a 13-megapixel PureView camera on the back.
However, with Nokia XL already unveiled with model number RM-1030, it remains to be seen whether this would be one of the first Lumia phones to run Android, as some of the latest reports out there have suggested.
One other thing that still has to be revealed is whether these devices will come to the market with the new “Nokia by Microsoft” logo on them, as the Redmond-based giant is expected to start changing the branding of their new products following the purchase of Nokia’s Devices and Services division.
For the time being, we’ll take the info above with a grain of salt. However, considering the track record of the leaker, we can assume that these phones will be revealed right on schedule.