Hungarian blog Technet probably did exactly what Nokia CEO Stephen Elop expected a tech journo to do: he leaked footage of the first Nokia Windows Phone, which is rumored to to be launching at Nokia World in October.
During a closed-door session at a Nokia event in Singapore, Elop asked a room full of journalists to turn off their cameras as he waved around a thin black prototype that he said was the first Windows Phone 7-based Nokia device.
Codenamed "Sea Ray," the phone will run Mango and come with an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, Gorilla Glass touch screen, a "pillow-shaped backing," and an extra button you won't find on the recently announced Meego-based N9 (which Engadget thinks is a shutter button). Furthermore, the LED flash hole on the back of the Sea Ray is in a different position than the N9.
Elop brought another Nokia employee on stage to demonstrate the phone, who said Sea Ray will introduce 500 new built-in features not found in current Windows Phone 7 devices. Most of the new features will come with Mango, like facial-recognition in photo tagging, Xbox synchronization, greater Facebook integration (for instance, accepted Facebook Events will automatically show up in your Microsoft Office Calendar), and the trademark Windows Phone "hubs" will include app suggestions.
Sea Ray will be the first output of Nokia and Microsoft's billion-dollar agreement to develop Windows Phone 7-based Nokia devices. Nokia hasn't given an exact date for the launch of Sea Ray, but anticipation is high for an October announcement, as Nokia traditionally uses its annual Nokia World conference in London to introduce prominent new products.
Watch Sea Ray highlights from Engadget:
Technet also posted the entire Nokia Windows Phone presentation, though the video might be skipping a lot due to traffic to the site: