Saturday, 8 November 2014

First Microsoft-Branded Phone ,Leaks in Chinese, US Regulatory Filings

New device is mid-range, between Lumia 630 and 730, comes in single- and dual-SIM variants, but lacks LTE

Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) smartphone market chief recently hinted that the first devices carrying Microsoft branding (rather than "Nokia" branding) were just around the corner.  Based on regulatory filing traffic, a document stream that's now carefully scrutinized by phone bloggers as an official source of near-release devices, the first Microsoft-branded smartphone carry the device IDs "RM-1089", "RM-1090", and "RM-1091.

 

Past Nokia-branded Microsoft smartphones have carried the RM-XXX or RM-1XXX branding.  For example:

  • Nokia Lumia 630: RM-976 (single-SIM, HSPA+)
  • Nokia Lumia 635: RM-974, RM-975, RM-977, RM-978, RM-979 (dual-SIM, LTE)
  • Nokia Lumia 730: RM-1038 (dual-SIM, HSPA+)
  • Nokia Lumia 735: RM-1040 (single-SIM, LTE)

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