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Most talk of a Nokia Lumia for Verizon has been relegated to small-scale rumors and incidental CDMA references. Nokia’s Worldwide Developer Relations head Richard Kerris has rather suddenly brought the elusive subject into focus through an interview: he tells Neowin that it “won’t be long” before the can-you-hear-me-now network gets a taste of an experience that has previously been limited to the GSM side of the US telecom world, like AT&T and T-Mobile. We’re not getting a roadmap for any Verizon devices just yet, to no one’s surprise, but Kerris is more than willing to share when we can expect the next wave of Nokia devices. We should expect a refresh of the line sometime in the fall, and whatever’s arriving in the spring will purportedly be good enough to have people “climbing over themselves” to get it — just in case Nokia’s role as a Windows Phone 8 partner for the fall launch and beyond wasn’t clear enough. The question-and-answer session touches on a handful of other subjects, including a hint that the near-mythical Windows Phone with PureView may be a bit closer to reality, so click on through if you’d like a peek at where the Lumia is headed next.

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The Nokia Lumia 900 won’t be getting Windows Phone 8, but AT&T is hoping that a special, limited edition pink version will distract you from the OS version. Priced at the same $99.99 (with a new, two-year agreement) as the existing color options, the pink Lumia isn’t a slapdash paint-job but involves Nokia creating an all-new colored casing. That means, even if you scratch it, there’s still pink underneath.

Otherwise, this is the same phone we know and – with a few reservations – love. Up front is a 4.3-inch WVGA display, with a 1.4GHz single-core processor inside and an 8-megapixel cameron the back with 720p HD video recording. It’ll also come loaded with a number of exclusive apps, including Nokia Music and Nokia Drive, and the new camera functionality released as part of the Camera Extras pack.

Later this year, meanwhile, Microsoft will release Windows Phone 7.8 for the Lumia 900, bringing the refreshed Metro homescreen and some other aesthetic tweaks to the handset. What it won’t get is the true WP8 upgrade, like all other current-gen Windows Phones.

The pink (aka magenta) AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 will go on sale in the carrier’s stores from July 15. It’ll also be sold online.

AT&T pink Lumia 900 drops July 15 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Earlier today we wrote about the Nokia Lumia 910 appearing on Nokia’s Remote Device Access service, but it turns out that it’s not the only phone to be leaked. According to reports online, there are a total of six new devices on the service as well. The five other phones are the Nokia 510, Nokia Belle 805, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 950 and Nokia Lumia 1001. Other than their names, no details are known about the devices, but we can probably make some guesses based on their names.

Intomobile predicts that the Lumia devices could be different variants of the Windows Phone for different carriers, while the 510 should be a successor to the 500 and the Belle 805 could be the 808 PureView minus the camera. However, after reaching out to Eldar Murtazin, he replied saying that the Lumia devices will all be Windows Phone 8 devices, with one of them packing a 12-megapixel camera. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Any theories on what these new Nokia phones will be?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: AT&T Lumia 900 now comes in pink, Nokia 808 PureView now available on Amazon,

In an interview with Neowin, Nokia’s vice president of worldwide developer relations, Richard Kerris, has explained that the company’s PureView camera technology currently featured only in the 808 is coming to the Lumia range “very soon”. More »

The Nokia Lumia 910 is not yet released, but this particular smartphone did appear on a list of Nokia remote device access (RDA), which in essence, is a tool that delivers all the relevant information required by developers concerning the most recent hardware. Just what are the kinds of possibilities that the Nokia Lumia 910 will be able to deliver? Several technological experts claim that the Nokia Lumia 910 is part of the T-Mobile family, which in essence, is a different model of the Nokia Lumia 910. It will not be based on Windows Phone 8 thought, but will instead run on Windows Phone 7. After all, this is in good stead with previous rumors that T-Mobile was on its way of receiving its very own version of the Nokia Lumia 900.

Some folks do speculate that Nokia did not alter the model number of their devices for mobile carriers like T-Mobile, as the T-Mobile Lumia 710 remained just that. Hence, there is the possibility that this is not going to be a variant of the Lumia 900 for T-Mobile. What do you, dear reader, think about this? Could it be a prototype instead that saw action at Microsoft’s summit?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: 12MP Nokia Lumia 910 rumor officially refuted, Nokia Lumia 910 appears on Dutch retailer’s website,