‘6-inch Nokia phone with 20MP camera in the works‘
Times of India |
Nokia
recently announced its biggest-ever smartphone, Lumia 625. The all-new
smartphone features a 4.7-inch screen, biggest in the company's
portfolio. The screen size, however, pales in front of the behemoths
offered by many of its rivals like Samsung, Sony and Huawei. Now, the
buzz is that the Finnish manufacturer too is joining the big-screen war.
Tech
news website The Verge, citing sources at Nokia, has reported that the
company is working on a phablet with a 6-inch screen. It is expected
that the upcoming handset has been codenamed Bandit and will have a full
HD screen, 20MP camera and a quad-core Snapdragon processor. The report
says "Bandit will be the first of many planned 1080p Windows Phone
devices."
An image of a Nokia phone with 6-inch
screen has leaked too, with a Weibo user claiming that the device is
already under mass production in China. A report by UK's Mobile Today
says Nokia will unveil its 6-inch phablet in the fourth quarter of this
year, priced between $620 and $780.
Windows
Phone 8 operating system currently does not support full HD screens,
which will come with the GDR3 update that is scheduled to be released
this fall. This update will also bring support for quad-core processor
on phones running on Microsoft's mobile OS.
With
such features, the new flagship would be competing with some of the big
screen devices in the market today, such as Sony Xperia Z Ultra,
Samsung Galaxy Note III and Huawei Ascend Mate.
Details of Nokia's upcoming 5.2-inch screen phone and 10.1-inch tablet (codenamed Vanquish) too appeared online recently.