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Nokia may have just been absorbed into Steve Ballmer’s belly, but its devices will continue under the Nokia name. Here’s another leak of the biggest one on the horizon, the Lumia 1520 Bandit, aka Nokia’s first 6-inch Windows Phone 8 device.
Chronic leaker @evleaks has got its mitts on the screenshot. That 6-inch display will have plenty of space for Windows Phone 8’s tiles. Look how many are on there. It’s like a mosaic or something.
In case you missed it, Microsoft announced this morning it’s buying Nokia’s mobile arm for £4.6bn. The deal is expected to be finalised in the first few months of 2014. Nokia handsets will still be branded as made by the Finnish phone firm though. Nokia will focus on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 OS, so those rumours of an Android-powered Nokia smartie are unlikely to ever come to fruition.
The Lumia 1520 Bandit is rumoured to be the first quad-core 1080p Windows Phone handset. If you can call it a handset, seeing as it stands 6-inches across. On the back should sit a 20-megapixel camera, and the device is expected to have a polycarbonate casing.
The Bandit is bigger than most phones, smaller than most tablets. That’s right, it falls into ‘phablet’ territory. How I wish we could come up with a better name for this type of device.
We could see the Lumia 1520 Bandit announced any day now. We’ll bring you the latest as soon as it breaks.
Are you excited about the Bandit? What features would you like to see? And is 6 inches too big for a phone? Let me know in the comments, or on our standard-sized Facebook page.
