Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
Summary: Leaked photos and video of the first Nokia smartphone running Windows Phone 7 Mango, codenamed "Sea Ray" and looks just like the sexy N9.
Leaked photos and video of the first Nokia phone to be running Windows Phone 7 Mango seem to offer the best of both worlds: the impressive design of the N9 and a new OS that should be supported for years to come.
"Sea Ray" has the same slim body with sharp edges, and curved Gorilla glass over the all-screen look of the N9. According to the Hungarian site Technet's English translation of the leaked materials:
The device itself is nearly identical to the just announced N9. Some difference, we can see: different LED placement on the back (but the same 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens) and a hardware button for the camera on the right.
If this "Sea Ray" turns out to be the real thing, then Nokia may finally have a hit on its hands.
[Source: Technet.hu via Engadget]
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RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
The difference in release dates is expected to be about 1 month.
On drinking and horses
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
WP7 has not been flying off the shelf, mostly due to poor market awareness. How exactly would the Meego outsell the windows version?
Wouldn't be the first time
I'm just saying that consumer tastes are extremely hard to predict. Put those two apparently lookalike phones next to each other, and I don't think anyone could know for sure today which one would sell better.
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
It won't.
Windows Phone has an ecosystem: it just need serious marketing.
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
It is no hoax. Note also that the N9 has a something like 54 extra vertical pixels over WP7's 800x480 display. Those extra pixels will probably be on-screen buttons, a first in the WP space.
I prefer physical buttons, but that's an interesting approach.
Nokia has great hardware engineering ...
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
Microsoft makes a killer desktop OS IMHO but they dropped the ball in 2007 when the iPhone was first released and they have not yet managed to pick it back up. Hopefully this combination of WP7 and Nokia's hardware will make WP7 a viable player in the smartphone market but I doubt it will gain the momentum needed to oust iPhone or Android.
RE: Sneak peek at Nokia's first Windows Phone 7: Looks just like the N9
Not only this, which is an accurate assessment, but also how can it revolutionize how we use smartphones when, if you compare Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)'s full list of feature (including all current features) to the feature list of iOS4 or Android 2.3.3, Windows Phone 7.5 still does not reach feature parity? How will it change how we use smartphones when it still omits things painfully needed for the enterprise?
I've been an LG Quantum owner since the first day WP7 hit AT&T stores and I'm sick of all this pie-in-the-sky dreaming. Yep, the UI is snazzy, and that seems to be the single biggest statement about the platform. "It's about the user experience," is another form of the same statement. But when I hear those arguments, I immediately think of people buying style over substance. What good is a snazzy UI if it can't do what its competitors can? I'd rather have an ugly UI that I can be productive with rather than a flashy one that is a struggle to get things done with.
I REALLY don't understand this wishful thinking that NOKIA is somehow going to blow up WP7 sales to EPIC proportions. In the United States, you have to look long and hard to find a NOKIA phone. NOKIA is big elsewhere in the world and, yet, it's in those same places that Microsoft is not very well liked (European Union, anyone?).
1.6 million WP7 devices sold so far and that's with three of the biggest smartphone manufacturers - HTC, Samsung, and LG - making them. I can't fathom how Nokia is going to somehow change things.
This idea that we're somehow beyond apps is a load of junk. Apps (not just games) are still what drive interest in smartphones, not some convoluted "user experience". WP7 is light on apps, not enterprise friendly, and lacking features most consumers have become accustomed to. I've tried selling WP7 to my Droid and iOS family and friends and while they're always impressed by the Metro UI, once they start really playing with it and realizing they can't do things they can do with their Droid or iOS phones, they change their mind. Every time.
What is a "smart phone"
Right now the whole bogus "smart phone" gig is smart only because people figured out how to get hundreds of dollars a year from people wanting to entertain themselves with their phone otherwise sitting in their pocket. The whole problem is they are too big now for your pocket. So what really needed is a tablet your small C3 style phone slides into. Then you have a phone and "Get Smart" with just a plug. I call this the "The Possum".
This configuration allows Windows OS to run full out but if you want to go for a jog, to the theater or mountain climbing you don't have to lug along all the smarts just to chat. Not exactly playing dead but close to it depending on the service your provider wants to deliver.
You see then your tablet would connect to data and the two OS would merge into one. Even multiple phones could make your tablet a real mother of a base station. So lets get with The Possum Nokia.