Nokia’s rumored to be announcing three new smartphones next week at Mobile World Congress. One will be the global variant of the Lumia 900, which is supposedly going to be called the Lumia 910 and will differentiate itself from its American cousin by not having 4G LTE, but instead featuring a 12 megapixel camera; another will be the Lumia 610, rumored to be running Windows Phone Tango and comes in at around 200 EUR; and finally there’s the Nokia Pure View, which until now we thought was going to run Symbian, but the folks at The Next Web think otherwise. They point to a tweet written by Vesku Paananen, who according to his bio is the”Windows Phone Lead in Microsoft Finland”. The tweet says:
Now we are talking! Can’t wait to see this: Pure View NOKIA. youtu.be/iZlE4uWnFqI #Nokia
— Vesku Paananen (@kitevesku) February 22, 2012
Does this mean the Pure View, that we’ve been speculating for months would be Nokia’s last Symbian smartphone, runs Windows Phone? Ehhh, no. Vesku Paananen is obviously a Finn, and like most Finns he wants to see Nokia do well. Because when Nokia does well, Finland does well. He’s going to say awesome things about anything and everything with a Nokia logo on it, because the more stuff Nokia sells, the better chance it has at surviving and thus making more Windows Phones.
When will Nokia actually release a Windows Phone with a decent camera? Likely when Windows Phone 8 comes out during the end of this year. Nokia needs deep access to the camera software, something they couldn’t achieve with Mango due to their tight schedule, but it’s safe to say that they’re going to use their special relationship with Microsoft to release a Windows Phone with the best camera phone on the market in time for Apollo.
Too bad such a device is at least half a year away.