Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, surprised a few months ago by showing against all odds a mobile that he referred to as Nokia Sea-Ray, or Nokia C-Ray. That device was the first in which the engineering of the Finnish firm and Microsoft's platform, Windows Phone 7, coincided. Without being confirmed, it was assumed that this device would be the first to open the series of terminals as a result of the alliance between Espoo and Redmond. And judging by what The Nokia Blog publishes, everything seems to continue in that direction.
We say this because the German delegation of the operator T-Mobile has uncovered an advertisement in which, without shame, it presents that phone that seemed to be baptized with a code name with the title, without more, of Nokia Searay.
Like what we saw at the time, the Nokia Searay reissues a design similar to that of the Nokia N9 (that mobile designed to work with the MeeGo system and that has not been put on sale worldwide). In this case, the Nokia Searay does have buttons, even if they are capacitive keys (the Nokia N9 is controlled exclusively through touch gestures).
The description of the article refers to its platform, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, as well as a 3.7-inch multi-touch screen mounted on an AMOLED panel. It also refers to a voice navigation system, although at this point we do not know if it refers to some type of system control ingenuity (in the style of what Google presented a couple of weeks ago in our country and which is anticipated in the iPhone 5 as Assistant), or to a dedicated function in the Nokia Maps application.
It is very likely that he refers to the latter, since they also emphasize the promotional image of T-Mobile's Nokia Searay to the 3D visual system for the geobrowser that integrates this mobile. Recall that the transfer of the suite of maps of Nokia was one of the points most interest put Microsoft in the agreement signed by both last April.
This is not a trivial question. The GPS functions of smart phones have put the manufacturers of terminals dedicated to this area in check. Google Maps opened a very important gap thanks to Android mobiles, although it was Nokia, with its Ovi Maps system (now Nokia Maps) that gave the option of using the phone as a navigator for routes without resorting to an Internet connection, downloading the maps directly in the terminal. Without Bing Maps of Microsoft has managed to take off, the integration of the suite of Nokia on Windows Phone 7in general, and in the terminals that will come after the Nokia Searay in particular, it constitutes a key episode in the fight of the imminent tandem in the smartphone market.
In any case, and given that the ad has been revealed as an internal piece and not officially published by the operator, it is convenient to quarantine the assembly due to the possibility that it is a document closer to the fantasy of a skilled user of Photoshop than a true promotion of the first Nokia with Windows Phone 7.
