Nokia Lumia 630 gets closer to becoming the first Windows Phone 8.1 handset in China

Just like the old Lumia 520, the new Lumia 630 and 635 may mean a lot to Nokia and Microsoft, as they’re smartphones that offer quite many features at a very attractive price. Plus, they both come with the new and improved Windows Phone 8.1 - they’ll be the world’s first handsets to run WP8.1 out of the box.

Nokia probably expects to sell millions of 630 and 635 units, and, mot likely, it will do just that. However, to achieve this, Nokia needs to release the handsets in all the countries where there’s high demand for affordable smartphones. China - the world’s largest mobile market - is the perfect example for that. And it looks like Nokia could start selling the Lumia 630 there pretty soon, as the handset was approved by the country’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center. The Lumia 630 that’s been approved is the dual-SIM model (RM-978), which should cost $169.

The Lumia 630 is already advertised at Nokia China’s official website - in a pretty nice way, as you may have noticed in the image above. Nokia doesn’t say exactly when it will release the new smartphone, though. But it should happen sometime in May. It remains to be seen if China will get the Nokia Lumia 630 before any other market, or not.


sources: Nokia China, Tenaa (translated)

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