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Possible Nokia Windows Phone 8 prototype spotted in the wild

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Possible Nokia Windows Phone 8 prototype spotted in the wild
In most cases, smartphone prototypes and hardware reference platforms don't look particularly pretty, and neither does this mysterious handset that has been spotted at the Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Amsterdam. The smartphone in question is rumored to be a Windows Phone 8 prototype made by Nokia.

Obviously, the smartphone is alive and kicking, and by the looks of it, Windows Phone 8 is installed on it. Or who knows, it might be an older experimental handset running Windows Phone 7.8.

Possible Nokia Windows Phone 8 prototype spotted in the wild
We cannot really tell with absolute certainty since the redesigned Metro interface, with funkier live tiles and more space on your home screen, will be present on both releases.

Yet don't expect this boxy Windows Phone handset to ever land at your local cell phone retail store. It is most likely made for developers to play with, while the better looking Nokia smartphones are the ones we will get to try out. That, however, will not happen until later this fall.

source: WP7 via WMPoweruser

UPDATE: Yup, turns out this is a Nokia Windows Phone 8 prototype. In fact, it is identical to the unit Joe Belfiore used for his WP8 demonstration at the Microsoft Developer Summit last week.

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1. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 28 Jun 2012, 06:38 5

Looks thick, slide out keyboard maybe?

6. Skoll posted on 28 Jun 2012, 07:06 2

if only it were true :/

7. maverick786us posted on 28 Jun 2012, 07:30 5

If it is thick, it might be a stripped down version of PureView camera

16. denied911 (banned) posted on 28 Jun 2012, 13:54

keep dreamin'

17. KingKurogiii posted on 28 Jun 2012, 14:43

it may just be a Test Device much like that Samsung that was used for WP7.

2. sbr999 posted on 28 Jun 2012, 06:41

That's used to demo the new stuff.

3. saurabhstark posted on 28 Jun 2012, 06:43

I hope nokia's WP8 phone is not this one...it's ugly & thick...

4. Life_Engineer posted on 28 Jun 2012, 06:49 9

Hehe it looks like iPhone! I can smell a lawsuit coming...
U don't need that Nokia! U have enough trouble...

15. haseebzahid posted on 28 Jun 2012, 13:18

lol tahts demo phone this is what Nokia will replay to Apple

5. Osman posted on 28 Jun 2012, 06:54 3

lol people its a prototype or u can say they had to make a prototype to check their progress! its not gonna b in market...

14. snowgator posted on 28 Jun 2012, 09:19

I guess whatever it takes to keep WP8 and Nokia in the news!!

8. aayupanday posted on 28 Jun 2012, 07:46 2

That's gotta have a Snapdragon S4 ticking inside it !

9. mattmurs posted on 28 Jun 2012, 08:06

If the phone is real, I just wonder how many lawsuits Nokia will have to go through to actually release it, since the whole design looks like an iPhone 4 just a bit thicker!!!

10. StreetNerd posted on 28 Jun 2012, 08:33

its an old prototype, u see the old windows logo? ;)

11. mercorp posted on 28 Jun 2012, 08:39

No lumia 1000?
:(

12. Schmao posted on 28 Jun 2012, 08:39 2

Looks like an iPhone to me.

13. arsenaljimenez posted on 28 Jun 2012, 09:04

too ugly to be a real nokia

18. tward291 posted on 28 Jun 2012, 15:13

cant be mistaken for an iphone plus apple doesn't have the balls to sue Microsoft they already pay them for the ipod and ipad

19. krimHD posted on 28 Jun 2012, 15:32

its surely not what nokia is gonna release, nokia does far better designs then this....this just a test for the os

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