One of Nokia's most popular feature
phones, the Nokia
1100, is once again in the news. A handset with that model number was spotted
running Google's latest Android build and powered by a quad-core processor
under the hood.
Nokia's legendary phone has been
spotted at a benchmark listing tipping details of the innards. First spotted by
Nokia Power User, the Nokia 1100's Geekbench browser benchmark results show
the handset running Android
5.0 Lollipop while including a quad-core MediaTek (MT6582) processor. The
listed Nokia 1100 handset is seen featuring
512MB of RAM. Apart from the Android version, processor, and memory, there are
no details about other specifications.
With the form factor of the original
Nokia 1100, we find it hard to believe the Finnish company might be testing
running any version of Android on it, forget Lollipop. It is more likely an
in-development smartphone that the company is using the same model number for.
Of course, the spotted Nokia 1100 with Android is unlikely to debut before Q4
2016, as the terms of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and
Services business stipulate Nokia can no longer use
its brand on smartphones till Q4 2016, and on feature phones for 10 years.
The Nokia 1100 was launched late in
2003 and is one of the company's biggest milestones as it's owned by around 250
million people worldwide, according to the company. Nokia even claimed that the Nokia 1100 was "the world's most popular
phone."
Last year, Nokia neatly bypassed the
restrictions imposed by the Microsoft deal and launched the Nokia N1 tablet. The company called it the
"first Nokia-branded Android tablet" and was initially launched
in China in Q1 2015 with a brand-licensing agreement extending to an OEM
partner (Foxconn) that would manufacture, distribute, and sell it.
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