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Did Stephen Elop just leak a Windows Phone-powered N9 codenamed Sea Ray?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.

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HTC Desire, Apple back to school promo, Nokia Windows Phone: US UpdateSo much tech news, so little time. In today’s US Update we cover the latest on the HTC Desire Gingerbread saga, look at Samsung Smart TV sales, unveil Apple’s new back-to-school promo, confirm the Motorola Pro UK release date, track down HP Pre 3 pre-order news and wrap up with the latest on Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset.

The HTC Desire will receive the highly-coveted Android Gingerbread update several months in the making. The catch: HTC will remove select apps from the release to meet the Desire’s storage criteria. Could this mean the HTC Desire will run vanilla Android Gingerbread?

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Acer W4 fails to impress, ships with Windows Phone Mango updateAcer’s foray into the world of Windows Phone Mango (v. 7.5), the OS’s first major overhaul scheduled for an autumn release, will begin with the Acer W4. This modest smartphone graced the floor at Computex in Taiwan, but other than the updated software, fails to deliver any ground breaking hardware.

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