14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been rumored lately to plan the release of handsets running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform as soon as September, but it appears that the company might have a surprise for us that month.
At the Nokia World conference in Helsinki, Finland, the handset vendor should make official at least two new smartphones, but it appears that not both of them will run Windows Phone 8.
In fact, one of them is now rumored to run under MeeGo, the platform that Nokia was recently said to have scrapped from all of its books.
The best part of the rumor, however, is the fact that this device is said to be high-end, the same as Nokia N9 was, but with far better hardware packed inside.
This alleged MeeGo-powered mobile phone could sport a 2GHz dual-core application processor packed inside and a TI OMAP 5430 chip.
The phone would essentially be better than the Windows Phone 8 handset that Nokia should make official at the aforementioned event in early September.
That device is said to land on shelves with a 1.5GHz dual-core application processor packed inside, with a built-in PowerVR SGX 544 GPU, and a Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen display capable of delivering a 1024 x 768 resolution.
Featuring 1080p / 60 FPS video playback and 1080p video recording capabilities, this Nokia Windows Phone 8 handset would certainly prove highly appealing.
The phone’s screen should be ClearBlack, while the back photo snapper is said to feature Carl Zeiss optics and to be of 18 megapixels. It would also come with support for Nokia’s PureView imaging technology, just as the mobile phone maker promised that new Lumia devices would.
For the time being, however, we’ll take these details with a big grain of salt, especially since there is little chance that Nokia will indeed come to the market with a new MeeGo smartphone.