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The event marks the return of the company’s NokiaWorld events. Next month’s event will take place in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

In addition to being the return of Nokia World, the event will see the unveiling of six devices according to The Verge, citing sources. According to the site, two of those devices will be in the Lumia range.

Previous reports have said that Nokia is working on two new Lumia devices: a six-inch phablet known as the 1520 and a Windows RT tablet called the 2520.

According to The Verge, one of the devices will be “pretty special”.

The other devices are expected to be Asha-based handsets. Little is known about those handsets.

The Middle East and Africa are still major markets for Nokia’s older feature phones, so it make sense for the company to unveil new devices there.

The report says that the HTC One Max will come with a 5.9-inch display, but will otherwise be a HTC One. If correct, that means the One Max will be powered by a Snapdragon 600 processor.

The only difference other than the screen is said to be the addition of a microSD slot.

HTC’s One Max is expected to come with Android 4.3 and Sense 5.5. That means it will come with features including Zoe capture from the Ultrapixel camera and access to the BlinkFeed service.

Interestingly, the phone could be the first Android device to come with a fingerprint scanner following the announcement of the iPhone 5s earlier this month.

If the reports are correct, that will put HTC head-to-head with Apple’s iPad/OS X Mavericks event.

Google is also expected to launch the world’s first Android KitKat smartphone, the Google Nexus 5 at an event the day before (October 14th).