It appears our intuition served us well in yesterday’s headline when we called the N9 “the MeeGo phone with Windows Phone looks.” In a “super confidential” presentation this morning, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop asked a crowd of attendees to put their cameras away before unveiling a Windows Phone-powered device with overwhelming resemblance to the N9, codenamed ‘Sea Ray’.
Other than a slightly different LED placement on the back of ‘Sea Ray’, the device is almost a mirror image of the N9 — it even uses the same 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens. There is however, a hardware button, presumably for shutter release, along the side.
While we’re certainly enthusiastic about the possibility a device similar to the N9 running Windows Phone 7, watching the 55 second clips raises some doubts. Namely, who’s hand is holding the phone? Also, the video cuts from Stephen Elop directly to the hands-on demonstration without zooming or panning. We’re not sold on the ‘Sea Ray’ just yet, but if the device is real go ahead and add us to the wait list.
via technet.hu | engadget
