In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed a photo, which, presumably, a prototype of the smartphone Nokia, soon to be released this year.
In the photo you can see the metal casing with the Nokia logo and the label “Property of Nokia” (“property of Nokia”). The device looks large enough to accommodate a display size of 5.2 or 5.5 inches.
According to preliminary information, this can be one of three Android smartphones that the company is preparing to release in 2016 under its own brand. Two of them will get a display diagonal of 5 and 5.5 inches.
We will remind, according to earlier rumors, Nokia C1 was supposed to be the first smartphone after acquiring Nokia Microsoft its mobile division. However, at the end of 2015 appeared information that the smartphone Nokia C1 was cancelled in favor of more advanced models. We are talking about the part of Nokia that remained Nokia, and did not become part of the mobile division of Microsoft. Now there is a series of Microsoft Nokia X with a greatly stripped-down shell on the basis of Android. Under the terms of the agreement with Microsoft, own smartphone could not be released Nokia before 2016.