Video: Unannounced WP8 Lumia/Proto in NFC demo?
Hey, check this out. It’s that proto Lumia in an ugly mystery mask of a box (so you won’t actually see the final design). This is NFC capable, as evident by the NFC demo in the video.
This has very little space wastage at the top. Much less than the 900 even with that case to hide what it looks like.
Though the bottom is larger. You can see the very Lumia style of black glass melting into another material below. The bottom corner looks to taper in. It looks silvery.
Here’s a tablet on show. I don’t recognise what this is.
At the end, we see both together. Is this the same handset as in the video? The tablet is different. It looks like the ASUS Slate from last year. Based on the spacing of the capacitive keys it’s neither the 800 or 900.
The phone doing the NFC demo may very well not be a Nokia though it does have various stylings to suggest it is a Nokia. Also I believe I read some comments saying it was mentioned in the WP8 announcement that a Nokia was being used in the demo – and hidden in a very similar case.
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That is some cool stuff. Seems like Nokia has great ideas but just never executes them
That is honestly why I am glad that MS is executing the OS ideas this time around. We all have watched Nokia drop the ball many times.
Love it or hate it, WP has some strong development going on and some strong 3rd party developer interest. Even with core OS abilities, WP is late to the party but when they impliment ideas, they are usally well polished and fully integrated.
I think the next few years are going to be great as a Nokia fan. In the mean time……somebody on the MNB team needs to get a 808 PureView. Jay has all the connections
About Jay having connections…
Man, Jay traveled as Nokia ambassador, so he must have some big NDA stamped on him.
About Windows Phone…
Well, I hope nokia succeeds with WP. WP8 seems nice, but I do not know if it can really survive in this world filled with iPhones and Androids.
Yeah, they stamped him 4 times. For each ear and eye. Only thing they left was the taste. It’s sweet.
WM, WP7, WP7.5, now WP8…
wp9 will be out shortly after wp8 which will be another reboot.
They prefer to announced them when developing it and then abandoned them or left them all alone on the launching day. After that, the competitors took them and claim as theirs. That is the strategy under Elop since day 1…
Nokia always had great ideas which they never execute. Nokia are too good at missing the opportunities…
and they are not going to execute them in future. Nokia had good ideas but they failed and it is over. Fans might hope for comeback but there is no comeback for Nokia as company.
Microsoft has no plans to make Nokia gain same status it has before in Mobile world. That would be idiotic from Microsoft as Nokia has been the biggest issue for Microsoft to gain ground in mobile business.
Microsoft goal is to take control of hardware and software both and use branding style like Xbox,Surface in future. buyout Nokia and use Lumia brand for their phones in future.
I will take note of your words. If this happens then I’m totally looking at Elop as the executioner. Still, I’m hoping for the best for Nokia. Let’s see.
Hopefully just a step in between, definitely not worth of Nokia, but these days, we’ll have to prepare for anything
I would love to see that kind of technical set-up where I live. It would be nice to have that in hotels, air ports as well. Tap to check in, tap to check out.
Maybe in a decade or so, we can have most of the hardware and technology in place. Just like when companies used to go to each shop, piching the idea for credit card scanners. I actually worked for a company that would try to convince shop owners that have a debit/credit card reader was the way to go. That was a hard sell in the beginning. They owners did not wan’t to have to pay a fee to use the machine when they could just take cash for free.
Anyway,
I’m pretty excited to see what Nokia and Windows Phone 8 brings to the table (no pun intended) as a whole!
I’ve seen so many of these ‘demos’ over the years it ain’t funny anymore. The whole downside to this is that every manufacturer (Google, Apple, MS) have their own solution and don’t expect one to be compatible with the other.
NFC might be an open thing, but the further software side of things is always developed by the OS owner. I’d really like to see this take off, but as long as the ‘every OS needs its own app’ conundrum remains we won’t be able to see the full potential of this kind of tech, unfortunatly.
Would be nice to see a MS Surface type of phone (preferably by Nokia) where the keyboard serves as a cover and is detachable. O.o
It already is detachalbe in current Microsoft Surface.
could there be a hump at the back, the reason why it has cover?… Maybe it’s not yet finish…
+10, it could be the pure view camera,
Not trying to sound too optimistic, but it is indeed quite rare to see a new phone this thick nowadays. The thickness’ gotta be there for something
Not a chance, it is a developers device. Mostly they are equiped with large and chunky batteries and have cases that are very damage proof, hence the thickness and basic look.
On the upside though, the internals are tested thoroughly so Nokia can potentially get some benefit from that.
Yeap I had one of those here and its similarly huge in nature, the n950 was a special case as its was a real end consumer device…
Didn’t anyone watch the wp8 presentation video? They said its a test device for wp8 made by Nokia and wouldn’t be a released device.
I’ve been thinking that too.
nahh… got you all there, i was actually thinking of a N8 like cam only… haha…
This video has been shown at the WP8 developer summit days ago, and yes Joe Belfiore has mentioned that the device he was using to demonstrate was an engineering device made by Nokia, but not a retail one. I can tell it’s the same one in the video, because it almost has the same thickness (I doubt a retail unit would have that MUCH thickness as this device).
I like restaurants that have pictures of the food on the menu
Lol. Haha.
Nokia really has a knack for leaking stuff on promos dun they.. nice find!
It’s not a new phone ffs. It’s the phone they used in the winphone 8 presentation on stage. The dude said clearely it was just reference hardware for the engineers. Do you guys even pay attention to the news and official stuff? Do you guys talk to each other when you decide to post articles?
Dude, the only thing you shared with that post was that you’re a dick.
No big deal, Captain Hindsight. Engineering hardware or not, i’d never seen this device. So it was totally worth Jay sharing it.
WP is going down, what this people are expected? Great Lumia successor with WP8? Yes, you will see it next year, and bankrupt of Nokia too. WP8 is the same like WP7, the same restrictions. Today Nokia is not able to sell Lumias, other companies like LG stopped production and waiting for selling everything they produced. I wish to see more interesting information about Nokia, not WP advertisement. Lots of people here are thinking they see PureView in Lumias. This technology wont be transferred to WP based systems. WP isn’t capable to support additional DSP processor which are used by PureView technology, which makes it working smooth. Some software processing could be moved to WP architecture, but it will work with lower resolution. I wish to see meego based 808 successor (sometimes dreams come true, the phone made by another company)
It was already shared a couple of articles back ”dude”
Small note: This prototype does not yet feature the new WP8 capacitive buttons, the ones with the simplified Windows 8 logo and the horizontal, longer graphics for back and search.
Not that it means anything, just a note.
Now tiles look great with different sizes. Stated to love tiles
Nice to hear!
Yes, the new Start screen does look really great.
It doesn’t looks better. I don’t understand why some companies like Ms or Google hate folders (they are available only on the desktop but missing in the application panel, samsung, htc are fixing that making their own home apps). All of us are using them all the time. It so easy to use and create too. One day they will introduce them in WP. What they are worried about right now?
this is just the home screen.. there was a lot of wp8 features they didn’t show.. but folders for apps is nice but I guess MS does want to come off as copying Apple.
Nokia was hating folders when they released MeeGo. N9 was missing folders.
Yeah, folders should have been ready for MeeGo in the summer of 2010. Everything after that was too late.
I didn’t see any Nokia branding on either the phone or the video. Am I missing something?
Usually prototypes don’t have branding. It was said during the WP Summit that they were nokias.
Pff
If you watched the presentation of wp8 they showed that device on stage.. Joe Befiore some its a test device for wp8 made by Nokia but wouldn’t be a released product .
The phone seems too thick for 2012..
I dont think Nokia will be making thick phones now !
@jay
I remember your post on wp8 concept,
actual wp8 and the concept are same right?
ceck this out
Asustek wins Microsoft Surface tablet
http:\\news.techeye.net/hardware/asustek-wins-microsoft-surface-tablet-contract ,
Wow.
There already were rumours that Pegatron were making the Surface. And guess where Pegatron came from? That’s right split out of Asus in 2007.
Nokia is going to die faster than what we are expecting.
With Microsoft recently announced that WP7.5 is NOT able to upgrade to WP8, all Nokia current Lumia phone including L900 will not possible to gain good sale. Expecting extremely bad financial result for third quarter. First quarter Nokia loss 2billion, and expecting negative 3b-3.5b in 2nd quarter, and third quarter ????
Nokia really bad luck recently, only miracle can save him.
This few days I’m seriously thinking of replacing my N9 64G with S3… This S3 looks fantastic… ooooocH !