Microsoft Launches Nokia Lumia 630, Windows Phone 8.1 Launch Underway
Humberto Saabedra
After being announced in April during the BUILD conference, Microsoft has officially launched the first Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone in the Nokia Lumia 630.
The 630 features a ClearBlack 4.5-inch LCD protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 at 854×480 underpinned by a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage along with a microSD slot with support for the latest 128GB cards. Rounding out the specifications is a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video capture as well as a dedicated low-power DSP in SensorCore for external wearable accessory support.
The phone will launch first this week in Asia and be followed by a European launch within the next few weeks, while the US launch will follow later this Summer with the Lumia 635 on both MetroPCS and T-Mobile. However, Microsoft still has yet to clarify when the Windows Mobile 8.1 update will be available to current Windows Phone 8 smartphone owners, as the company’s support pages were quietly updated to point to a late June roll-out on the 24th of the month, though the date does not take into account individual carrier updates.
