The Verge reports that Nokia is developing a low-cost Windows Phone device, meant to be the successor to the Lumia 610, and destined to hit store shelves only by December, codenamed Glory.
A bare-bones Windows Phone, the Nokia Glory is expected to run Windows Phone 7.8, the last iteration of the previous generation, which will bring the new start screen and other minor interface improvements, from Windows Phone 8. The 4-inch Glory should run on an 800MHz processor, and just 256MB of RAM.
The Finnish mobile manufacturer is expected to unveil its first two Windows Phone 8 devices on Wednesday, what are rumoured to be called Lumia 920 with PureView (codenamed Phi) and Lumia 820 (codenamed Arrow).
Confusingly enough, despite the broad Nokia-Microsoft business agreement, Samsung was the first company to unveil a Windows Phone 8 device, as an announcement at IFA 2012 – the Samsung ATIV S. The company also unveiled its range of Windows tablets [both x86 (Windows 8) and ARM (Windows RT)], like many other companies at the Berlin trade show, including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, and Toshiba.
With Samsung’s small headstart in public awareness about Windows Phone 8, Nokia’s WP8 offering may yet make it to the market first. Like other Windows Phone 7 manufacturers however, it would be completely replacing the previous generation of devices now limited to Windows Phone 7.8.
Source: The Verge