A Nokia smartphone has passed through the FCC with the codename RM-877. The device is believed to be the 41-megapixel PureView Nokia EOS, which is expected to be announced on July 11 at a press event Nokia will be holding. The FCC filing reveals the smartphone contains AT&T-compatible LTE bands.
Nokia recently had sent out invites for an event the company will be holding on July 11. The invite includes the tag line "Zoom Reinvented," which implies that the device will be a camera-centric smartphone. There have been rumors for months that Nokia would be bringing its PureView camera technology to a Lumia Windows smartphone and the smartphone would feature a 41-megapixel camera. The new FCC filing does not reveal that the smartphone is the EOS, rather the name submitted is listed as RM-877, but there are clues that this device is the EOS.
The FCC filing lists the RM-877 as having 4G LTE bands that support AT&T's network. The EOS has long been rumored to be an AT&T exclusive out of the gate, just like the Lumia 928 was a Verizon exclusive and the Lumia 925 was a T-Mobile exclusive in the U.S. The filing also reveals that the smartphone will include quadband GSM and EDGE, dualband Wi-Fi, pentaband HSPA+ and WCDMA, Bluetooth and NFC. The device's dimensions are listed as 130.35mm x 71.4mm, which makes the smartphone one millimeter taller and wider than the Lumia 925.
Another clue that we are in fact looking at the EOS, is there's an entry in the filing that indicates the device has been tested with a "camera grip" accessory. Since we already know that the EOS' main attraction is going to be its 41-megapixel PureView camera, this testing appears to all but confirm the RM-877 is in fact the EOS.
The Nokia EOS is expected to feature a 4.5-inch 768 x 1280 AMOLED ClearBlack Display, run Windows Phone 8, powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, include 32GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, a 41-megapixel PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, and Xenon flash, LTE radio, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/c/g/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, polycarbonate body and a non-removable 2000 mAh batter. Nokia is also rumored to have built a special camera application for the EOS, which will provide access to more camera options.
We'll have to wait until Nokia's event on July 11 to see how this plays out.
