Rumour: Nokia Ace coming to both Verizon and AT&T in Q1 2012

December 9, 2011 | By Surur

We have just received a hot tip about the upcoming Nokia Ace, confirming the leaked specs and also adding LTE to the mix.

The phone will apparently Nokia’s first LTE device, and the first they will be marketing in USA – sorry Lumia 710.

According to our tipster the hardware is ready to go, and the device is just waiting for the Tango OS. Nokia is pushing for a late-January release, while a mid-March release is more likely.

AT&T is guaranteed the device, but apparently Verizon is also pushing hard to be a launch partner.

The specs is as leaked earlier – 4.3" screen, 8megapixel camera, 16gb storage, Windows Phone Tango OS , 1.4Ghz CPU, LTE support.

Is this the device our readers will be waiting for? Let us know below.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged AT&T, lte, nokia ace, rumour, verizon, windows phone 7.75

Anonymous

Why with this pic all the time when the 900 comes out? It looks horribly dated, and doesn’t share the 800′s design language, something the 900 is reported to have…

http://twitter.com/Cri5_09 Chaitanya Bangera

Right. This pic looks so ugly.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UXH5HNCTFSTANWW4BLY777W72Q Chuck

You mean Q1 2012?
http://twitter.com/OmegaRa Shaun Sommer

FFC? I don’t have an upgrade until October, but…this looks nice
Anonymous

This will be my next phone if it’s on verizon
http://twitter.com/blakehaas blakehaas

%_@% ~) @#!&(&*(# DAMMIT T-MOBILE……..
Anonymous

If this comes to Verizon…I am sure to buy!
Anonymous

I’ll wait for a 32GB device thank you Nokia. When will these manufacturers get it that we want MORE STORAGE!!!

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6G3ZZJCHOLYP3S5CRCIHQ7WDSE MVIM

If these were some Android phones with microSD support, 16GB would be fine. But with the Zune audio player integrated and support for all kinds of rich media, there’s no reason for Nokia’s American (or European, for that matter) flagship device to have less than 32GB of memory on-board.
http://twitter.com/purevibz jack frost

There should also be a 32GB version not just 16GB
http://twitter.com/NoRomBasic Michael Kohlman

Agreed. I still have my 40GB Focus & a 32GB Trophy and I refuse to step back down to 16GB, even though it seems like no out there is listening. 32Gb is the minumum for me and I would put down $$$ for a 64GB if it was out there. Come on Nokia; Apple offers both.

http://twitter.com/ma7mgte Joel Rollins

How did you get 32GB on your Trophy?

http://twitter.com/NoRomBasic Michael Kohlman

With Great Care…

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821879

It’s my Wife’s Trophy to be specific but it did not take long after she got it to realize that the Music and occasional Video would pretty quickly rip past the 12 gig of available storage. Now with ~28 gig of free space with all her apps loaded she has been much happier.
Anonymous

Many Gen 1 devices have MicroSD slots inside if you disassemble them a bit.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1198150213 Joe Murray

To echo Joel, how did you get 32gb on your Trophy?

Anonymous

Welcome to the 21st century. Cloud storage is it. My Skydrive has all the storage I need, and with an unlimited plan on T-Mobile, I access documents at 4G speed on my “mere 8GB” Radar 4G.

Built-in storage is wasteful, adds cost, and has little benefit over a certain amount. I’d much rather have a lighter device at a lower cost with battery life than a bunch of local storage that I’ll never use.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6G3ZZJCHOLYP3S5CRCIHQ7WDSE MVIM

Verizon is always complaining that they won’t sell any more Windows Phones without LTE. If this has LTE, they better pick it up. I’m tired of introducing my friends and strangers to Windows Phone to have them walk away impressed only to discover that unlike the amazing phones at AT&T that they saw me demonstrate for them, Verizon’s selection is one device with now-lackluster specs.

Anonymous

Yeah… I’m going to call BS on the “we don’t want it if it doesn’t have LTE” one. It is just an excuse. They have new Blackberry, IOS, Android, and hell they added the Palm 2 devices that they have launched without LTE support in the last few months. Its obvious they have a personal bias, resentment over Kin, or just want to force MS to allow them to put their software on the device in a way that it can’t be removed. They know they have the edge in this deal for the time being, and are playing their hand to their advantage and Microsoft’s/their Customer’s detriment.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6G3ZZJCHOLYP3S5CRCIHQ7WDSE MVIM

Verizon is so far in bed with Google and Motorola that it’s as if they don’t even try to hide it anymore. Have you been in one of their corporate stores in the past year? You’ll be bombarded with Android by sales reps, even now that they have the iPhone and iPad. And if you ask about Windows Phone, they chuckle and take you over to the lonely live bar with the one HTC Trophy in the back corner and basically say “help yourself,” because they don’t know anything about it.

I don’t know why they think consumers want LTE. Early adopters do. But average consumer is happy with 3G speeds, and would likely rather have the battery life from a mature EVDO chipset than the ~8 hours of standby time that was being reported when the first-gen Thunderbolts went on sale. I’m an early adopter. I have a Samsung Focus, which means HSDPA 7.2 and no HSPA+ for me and I’m happy with it. We don’t have “enhanced backhaul” here yet either and I don’t miss it. Verizon just turned on LTE in my area this month, but it seems like you give up too much just to say you can achieve a real-world 10 Mbps on the downstream. Especially now that data caps are in place, so faster speeds just make it easier to burn through that data package faster. The phone can only load webpages so fast with ~1.2 GHz processors, anyway.
Anonymous

Verizon’s only interest is in making money (as it should be). They have a built in audience for the iPhone and they will sell a ton of them even without LTE. They have a built in (although dwindling) audience for BlackBerrys who will buy them regardless of whether they have LTE or not. They have an Android audience who craves more cutting edge specs, like LTE. Verizon obviously thinks, rightly or wrongly, that the only way they can “build” a market for WP7 phones is by having them stand out from the iPhone and have LTE.

I don’t care about LTE and I don’t want to pay extra for it but Verizon is the one who gets to make that marketing decision, not me. If WP7 took off with the first generation devices, they probably wouldn’t be making such a big deal over LTE but the reality is they didn’t.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6G3ZZJCHOLYP3S5CRCIHQ7WDSE MVIM

In all fairness, Verizon was deliberately dragging their feet on carrying any Windows Phone even long after Sprint gave in, so naturally their sales are going to lag behind everyone else. Meanwhile Verizon has 674,823 different Android models on display in every store. Verizon’s sales reps ferociously push Android on unsuspecting smartphone buyers without even giving Windows Phone a fair shot. And of course, there’s the infamous line: “it’s just like an iPhone,” when in reality those people have no idea how different Android really is from the iPhone.

The reason Verizon wants to get people on LTE is because the lack of simultaneous voice and data on EVDO is the last weakness they have against AT&T. Personally, I don’t have any issues with AT&T’s network, but Verizon has been beating them up in national rankings for years on coverage, support, and data speeds (in spite of AT&T’s HSPA being faster than EVDO). The iPhone exclusivity was AT&T’s sole marketing strategy for too many years, but now that ride is over. If Verizon can stay ahead of AT&T in their LTE deployment, they will have effectively left AT&T so far behind that there will be no catching up, even if the T-Mobile acquisition did/does go through. It’s sad, because regardless of how you feel about the carriers, we as consumers really need as much competition as possible. And any carrier (especially the largest) getting that far ahead of another is simply bad for us.

But to get back on topic with Windows Phone, if Verizon had a decent selection of at least 3 devices and the sales reps pushed Windows Phone in the same manner that they do Android, Windows Phone sales would not be in question at all.

Anonymous

No Sprint. ERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT&T Here I come!
NarcoSleepy

If we cannot have expandable memory, they should provide models with 32 & 64GB capacity. FFC or NFC? Not a huge deal for me, but friends scoff at any device without either of these features. Only 1.4Ghz single-core? My current device is a 1.5 Ghz single-core and, while not sluggish by any means, it seems to take a while switching, despite quick resume ability of mango-enabled apps.

Anonymous

Taking a while switching (especially if the application is trying to restore state) may be more of a function of time it takes to access the storage than CPU hit.

http://twitter.com/supwitya jeff

2011?
Anonymous

I still think that Nokia will release the QWERTY version – see the Nokia N950 – for one of these carriers. It’s essentially the same design as the Lumia 800, just with a keyboard. They only made like 250 of the N950 model and gave them to developers only, so it just seems like it would be a waste if they didn’t put WP on it and released it commercially.

I think it would be great if both AT&T and Verizon got a Nokia Lumia 9## device in Q1 2012.

Anonymous

If that picture is even close to accurate (which I can’t believe it is!), then it looks thick enough to have a slide out lateral QWERTY keyboard on it. Personally, that would be a negative thing to me but that’s just my preference.

Anonymous

I have to say: Nokia’s Windows Phone designs are freakin’ smexy.
If that render is truly the way it’ll look, I might just replace my Omnia 7 with it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Margus-Klemetti/100001904284935 Margus Klemetti

I am so cumming right now! Oooooooh ich komme!
Anonymous

I was going to wait until fall for a Apollo device but this is going to make it hard.
http://twitter.com/jamesdax James Matthews

I currently have 2 of my 5 lines off contract. A third comes off in January. If T-Mobile hasn’t annouced at flagship WP device by then I well pay off the last two lines and gtfo. If Verizon gets the 900 I’ll go to them. If not, AT&T it is.
Anonymous

Nokia on VZW with those specs + FFC (Hopefully though not a must for me) will be an instant sell. I do hope they offer 16 AND 32GB flavors to satisfy those with higher storage needs, though the 16GB would likely still be the dominant seller.
Anonymous

I’ll buy a DeLorean to ‘go back to Q1 2011′ and buy this nokia

http://twitter.com/PESMERGA7 D

Nokia should change the name of the Lumia to Flux Capacitor. It would sell, like, yesterday.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HOKQSWPW34HSO7G6IUTT74VVGQ Manu Narayan

On Verizon and I will get it in a heartbeat.
Jordan Zielin

*sigh*… FU t-mobile! I think it is time for me to drop them.
http://twitter.com/counterblow the person

Q1 2011….its back to the future!

http://profiles.google.com/philipcdj Philip De Jesus

welll at least now it has been corrected. I was about to comment on it also.

On topic. If verizon jumps on board and with a Nokia handset, i guess this is a win for WinPhone (hey nice pun!) Add this to great advertising and marketing campaign and who knows maybe finally Nokia will make a big come back and WinPhone will finally gain some ground.

Anonymous

I wish this one has front facing.
http://twitter.com/wibralo William Longmire

That would be a huge win for Windows phone.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Nehring/100001928079717 Jon Nehring

Verizon+LTE+Nokia+WP7?!? Please, yes, please, yes. I’m so tired of the crap accelerometer on my Focus.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CW3SETFCKRB5NRLX5QZK3EMRWY Joe

ATT Nokia Lumia 900 4.3 in screen LTE 16GB all okay 32 gb option would be nice no deal breaker for me Late January really good mid march not so good no time listed in February not so good overall would be okay with that
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CW3SETFCKRB5NRLX5QZK3EMRWY Joe

Good enough for me Yep I will wait (I hope I can) Hopefully in January 2012 would be nice
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CW3SETFCKRB5NRLX5QZK3EMRWY Joe

Yep I think is good enough for me as specd and I can hopefully wait until the end of January or so. 32 GB would be nice but I am fine with 8 on my focus. Is yellow them a Nokia deal?
Anonymous

I need 32GB Minimum. Damn ALL of you WP7 manufacturers to the lowest pits of Hell. The first one to release 4.3″ screen and 32GB has my money instantly
Anonymous

Not exactly. There are many more needed and just increase in screen size and support for LTE are only some of the basic parts. There is need of differentiation with pure Nokia experience and other value added features. Otherwise it will be another lumia 800 with differing screen size.
Anonymous

Just add a keyboard! (More memory would be nice.)
Anonymous

I can live with 16gb there is 24gb of skydrive but I would like the breathing room of 32gb onboard though, not too sure I would like my porn in the skydrive.. >_>
Anonymous

Given that Verizon hasn’t shown any love for WP7, I can’t imagine they care if they’re a launch partner. But, as a Verizon user, I hope the tip is right…
Anonymous

If this does come to verizon with lte I may switch from android. I always liked nokia phones and was waiting to try wp7 until it had lte.
http://www.facebook.com/J4rrod Jarrod Justus

I AM SO IN.
Anonymous

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will buy one!
mlewis

YEP THIS IS MINE!