Is this a leak or a "leak"? An alleged video of Nokia's upcoming Windows Mobile device, codenamed "Sea Ray," has leaked out of what looks like a factory in mainland China (we hear Mandarin in the back).
First posted on Chinese blog wpxap and picked up by wpcentral, the video shows someone booting up "Sea Ray" and running an advanced developer's version of the Windows Phone 7.5 mobile operating system, aka "Mango."
The video (see below) shows someone turning on the phone through a small side button rather than a recessed circular button seen in current Nokia devices. The boot sequence shows the Windows Phone "7" logo and then a Qualcomm-like "Q" sign. The user then switches to camera mode with the press of a side button (like in previous Nokia devices) and finishes the demo by showing a pretty lock-screen photo of mangos. A tipster confirmed with wp7central that the device was running build 7710 of Mango.
Whether or not this is real, the video does not reveal much more about Sea Ray than Nokia's own video "leak" last month.
While signs point to an October launch of of "Sea Ray," a Japanese newspaper on Monday reported that Toshiba Fujitsu was launching the world's first "Mango" phone this August, in partnership with local telco KDDI.
For a comparison on upcoming mobile operating systems from all the major players, see PCMag's Smartphone OS Preview: iOS 5 vs. Android 2.3 Gingerbread vs. Windows Phone 7 Mango vs. Blackberry 7 OS.