Most people thought the Lumia 710 was the poor second cousin that would inhabit the pockets, saris and loin cloths of the third world, bringing Windows Phone to a demographic that may still be closer to the barter system, than the banking system.
Still in a leak today, prior to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, it looks like a real Tango handset is about to come from Nokia, so 256 Mb memory, 4 or 8 Gb internal storage, and a price point that should be about half of the Lumia 710. Tech Radar got the exclusive on the leak today, and say the phone will most likely only be offered pre paid.
No real details on the phone, although following what the Tango version of Windows Phone will be like,
The new OS is heavily rumoured bring support for lower end hardware (such as fewer pixels, slower processors and perhaps no dedicated camera shutter) and fits perfectly with a cheap-as-chips handset appearing on the market.
That’s all speculation for now, as another Nokia rumour from IntoMobile suggests that the Finnish company is going off shore, moving it’s manufacturing, and changing to a new chipset to keep costs down overall.
According to DigiTimes, who has a mixed track record, but have proved themselves reliable numerous times in the past, Nokia is considering going with either MediaTek or MStar Semiconductor for future low end devices
Even to the point of sourcing new chipsets for their devices, Nokia are going all out to cut costs, though I think there will be a catch, and this strategy may only apply to the 610, a lot of people would be put off by the fact that they had never heard of the chipset manufacturer before. All of these details had been discounted because they came from the now not so reliable Eldar Murtazin, editor in chief of Mobile Review in Russia.
It’s all a bit vague, but it’s probably Nokia’s strategy for Asia, and the need to supply bulk devices for a lesser cost to both the consumer and the company. When you think about the size of the population in south east Asia alone, Nokia may be looking at the end of the rainbow.
Post written by Peter Murphy on
February 15, 2012
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Nokia Australia today popped up their antipodean translation of the Lumia 800 advertisement, it’s a thirty second commercial, overview, and I’m hoping it starts airing on local TV tomorrow. It feels like we are the last in line for the Lumias, so I hope they have plenty of stock coming. Nokia has been sliding support videos onto their channel rather surreptitiously, no fanfare, no bells and whistles, unless you were digging you would not find this stuff at all.
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