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.
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