"Now I will ask everyone to turn off his camera because I'll show you something extremely confidential," begins CEO of Nokia, at a conference in Singapore, June 22 He continues: "We have long debated whether we should show the phone in front of several thousand people. It is super -confidential and we do not want that to be found in the blogosphere ... "
If Stephen Elop had meant "Do not stop to shoot, and swing it on YouTube," it would not take it otherwise. "No pictures, please," he continued with a smile. Before unveiling a "new product". Code name: "Sea-Ray.." "It looks like two peas in N9", unveiled Tuesday , "if not the extra button on the side and a different position of the LED flash," says Elop. Drum roll ... This is "the first Windows phone, Nokia."
The N9 stillborn
In the end, Sea-Ray is almost a carbon copy of N9 : even rectangular sexy, even 8-megapixel camera. The version presented by Elop was black. He did not say if the magenta and cyan are in the game.
The difference with the N9 is therefore at the operating system: one is the first and last phone in the Nokia OS MeeGo. It opens paris: no operator on offer as part of a contract and sales will be confidential. The other will be the first smartphone with Windows 7 Phone Mango, a partnership that Microsoft and Nokia are playing their survival against Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung and LG.
Note: a 21-minute version of the presentation is available on Technet . Clear professional quality, filmed with a tripod, it looks like an internal video. The question is whether someone has deliberately put online or if it was stolen.
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