A Nokia promotional video for developers appeared to show an entirely new Nokia Windows Phone handset — until Nokia pulled it from public YouTube view. But as with anything online, once it’s out there, it’s out there.
Nokia’s killed the original video from its own YouTube channel, and I’ve no idea how long this video copy will last, but the phone on show doesn’t quite match up to the existing models that we know of from Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 ranges; especially the fact that the buttons at the base appear to vanish when the phone’s powered down. Could be a trick of the prototype or the video, naturally — or perhaps an as-yet-unannounced model.
[MyNokiaBlog via WinRumors]
maddogeco
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 9:25 AMor just use QT and develop for symbian MeeGo and some little upstart platforms iOS and Android. plus QT is owned by Nokia and has awesomely cool poeple in the forum both paid and volunteer. and its open source. the whole windows thing is such a fail.
Barry
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 9:46 AMWhy do you think WP7 is “such a fail” ?
The phone in the video could just be a mock up for advertising purposes or even one of their prototypes that first developed. I’m going with just a mock up for advertising.
Gabriel
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 10:04 AMUrgh..open source fan boys are almost as annoying as Apple fan boys…do you honestly think WP7 is shit?
Sicarius123
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 8:21 PMx2, they are oblivious to the fact that the general market don’t want open source, and don’t want to tweak. They want something with an intuitive user experience that just works and looks nice.
MotorMouth
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:09 AMShow me one decent UX using QT. Like most open source stuff, it’s garbage.
Matt L
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 9:52 AMOhhhhhhh…. VisualPhone… Imma take a peek at that!
MotorMouth
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:10 AMThat phone looks quite nice but I think the N9/Lumia 800 is a much sexier form factor.
Matt
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM+1
Dropping my iPhone4 next year to get a Lumia 900 with WP8.
Merc
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 3:21 PMI just got a Samsung Omnia 7, and WP7 is being awesome to me.
chris
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 12:03 PMSame here – the Omnia 7 isn’t the latest or greatest of Samsung’s range, but geez, it just works so well with the Windows Phone interface.