Now that is some news about Nokia, as China Mobile -- the world's largest carrier -- has agreed to bring the Lumia 920 into its fold. A representative for Nokia revealed the news late this week, although just like every other handset with Windows Phone 8, pricing and availability remains up in the air. Beyond China Mobile's mind-boggling number of subscribers (hovering above 660 million), the deal is significant because of Nokia's limited willingness to support the network's TD-SCDMA infrastructure.
While unconfirmed, we're hopeful to find the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 at the heart of this variant, due to its support for both TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. That said, because China is in no rush to adopt 4G, the MSM8260A remains a viable candidate. Regardless, perhaps Nokia will be able to turn a bit of a corner with this deal -- in more ways than one.
The images leaked by @evleaks also include captions that posit the Nokia Phi to be the Lumia 920 which will have a 4.5-inch display and a PureView camera. The Nokia Arrow on the other hand will be handed the Lumia 820 name that will have a 4.3-inch display. Notably we notice some ‘Carl Zeiss’ branding near the lens, which is quite normal for Nokia phone. Both Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 900 have camera lens’ built by Carl Zeiss.