BANGALORE, INDIA: Nokia, which is planning to launch its new mobile handsets based on the Microsoft Windows platform, unintentionally showcased the new Windows-based mobile phone in an internal function recently, thus flopping its plan to follow the paths of Apple in maintaining secrecy about the handset.
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The smartphone is supposedly codenamed, “Sea Ray”. Though Elop requested the audience to not record or not take pictures of the new gadget, which resembles N9, someone ignored the request and recored the event, it seems.
Nokia, which has been struggling to make a turnaround, is betting big on the new Windows Phone 7. It had recently unveiled a series of 'economy' handsets as well as the N9 smartphone. In India it had also unveiled two 'Made in India' dual SIM handsets.
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Reports said the Sea Ray will feature an 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, which is the same as in the N9, and also a 1 GHz processor.
It was in February this year that Microsoft and Nokia reached a strategic tie up for Windows Phone, a development that followed the appointment of former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop as Nokia CEO.
Nokia had recently announced that it would launch the first Windows Phone this year in the global market.
Will the leak of the new gadget help Nokia? It could, because such leaks adds to the curiosity factor!