In an utterly unbelievable move, Nokia today announced that the company’s existing Lumia range of smartphones will be joined by a reinvigorated Nokia Essentials range. Harking back to the company’s previous successes, the first device to hit the shelves will be a completely revamped Nokia N95 christened the N95-A.
The exact same candybar form factor will be retained, however everything else will change. First, out goes Symbian, in comes a custom authored version of Android 4.2-N. Google has reportedly been working on this version for sometime now together with the Finnish company’s engineers.
The fantastic original 5 megapixel camera is upgraded to a gorgeous category leading 96 megapixel PureView lens.
And finally, the screen gets an upgrade to 526ppi — the best we’ve ever seen on a smartphone.
The standard numerical keyboard will remain allowing hardcore fans to finally type their messages without looking once again thanks to a specifically engineered version of T9+.
The N95A also sees the first Qualcomm chipset in a this form factor along with a wholly reasonable 64GB of onboard memory.
This is an exciting move for Nokia given they sold millions upon millions of these candy bar style smartphones just a few years ago.
$799 or £490 is steep but worth it for a phone of this calibre.
Fans of the other popular N and E series form factors should keep looking for news — they’re all due a revision.
I for one can’t wait for the Communicator announcement.
Definitely check your calendars today.
(Published 1st April 2013 0240 GMT)
Ja Ja
Nice. Funnily enough, I’d probably buy this.
Me too. Definitely!
Nice one. Had me for a second there! Wouldn’t it be grand if they actually would put out an Android phone! What do they have to lose here? Honestly, what harm would it cause?
I remember most of your April fools joke posts, & some of them seem as if you had a crystal ball looking into Espoo…
Kamangu — if only!!