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Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices
Nerval's Lobster writes "Did images of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 8 smartphones leak a few days early? That's the question after a Twitter feed, @evleaks, posted a set of images early on Aug. 31. The first, it claimed, was of the '4.3-inch Nokia Lumia 820,' while the second purported to show the '4.5-inch Nokia Lumia 920 with PureView.' Corporate-sanctioned leaks are a fairly regular thing in the tech world, but they tend to follow well-defined patterns: a public-relations executive — wait, sorry, 'unnamed source' — will email a journalist with an image of an upcoming device, for example, or a disgruntled former engineer will data-dump information onto their blog. Glossy publicity images originating from a new, relatively unknown Twitter feed is less common, although the Twitter feed in question has leaked other images in the past."
MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.
Apple actually used Lumias as an example of a phone that they don't feel violates Apple trade dress.
These could have been MeeGo phones, with QT and the nice UI from Nokia N9.
I guess MS would have none of that.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Except looking at a picture of cell phone is about the same as looking at a generic ATX case and saying "Look at how fast this computer is!"
You dumbass. Apple held up the worst failure in the mobile phone marketplace as an example of what they want in a competitor. And the fanboys eat it up.