Nokia’s first two Windows Phones are called the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, according to leaked materials posted on the blog Winrumors.
Nokia will supposedly unveil the phones during its Nokia World conference, which starts on 26 October.
Based on Winrumors’ photos, the Lumia 700 bears a more-than-casual resemblance to leaked photos of a Nokia prototype code-named “Sabre”, while the Lumia 800 looks like the one previously known as “Sea Ray”. Indeed, multiple publications (including Winrumors and CNET UK) have already made that connection.
As to the exact nature of what Nokia would reveal, that remained more ambiguous. Over the summer, chief executive Stephen Elop (a former Microsoft executive) flashed a prototype smartphone running Windows Phone during a press conference.
A number of people in the audience snapped spy photos and video of the device, which looked like a Nokia N9 smartphone modified for Microsoft’s smartphone platform. In subsequent months, news and images leaked of similar devices, including the two code-named “Sea Ray” and “Sabre”.
Those Windows Phone prototypes resembled Nokia’s N9, a MeeGo-loaded smartphone with a 3.9-inch AMOLED screen and body engineered from a single piece of polycarbonate.
Nokia reported another dip in revenue and profit for the third quarter of 2011, with net sales totaling $12.3 billion (£7.6bn), a year-over-year decline of 13 percent, and operating losses of $98.4 million.
Nokia also has a New York City event scheduled for 26 October, where its new smartphones could make an appearance. Microsoft has begun updating its Windows Phone platform with hundreds of new tweaks and features, as part of its wide-ranging “Mango” update. In addition to Nokia, manufacturers such as Samsung are also apparently onboard to produce a new generation of Windows Phone devices.
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