Is This Nokia's First Windows Phone?

Long Zheng disagrees with the photoshopping. He claims the font is not Segoe WP. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20111020/nokia-windows-phones-may-use-n...

" It looks great to me. It also looks like someone simply Photoshopped Windows Phone screens onto the company's existing N9 device," It looks great to me. It also looks like someone simply Photoshopped Windows Phone screens onto Apple's iPod mini device. Fixed that for you...

Yoshipod.. Apple's ipod mini device is smaller, has sharper edges and the screen insert is squarer too. I just can't imagine what humankind could have survived this far it it wasn't for Apple opening our eyes to the stunning potential of a rectangle, the Egyptians couldn't do it not the Mayans they only came up with squares and pyramids. Ancient man could only come up with a wheel, yet it took until this technological era and a gift of the gods to come up with a square with two longer sides. "..and we call it.. A rectangle!" (pan to adoring crowds weeping, cheering and beating of their chests because they stand in glory that is Apple!)

I really need to see all the new North American phones soon. My wifes IPhone 3GS is sluggish with the new IOS. I am holding her off upgrading until new WP7 devices appear. After using my Samsung Focus for a year, I'm convinced she'd like this OS much better.....get those damn phones out already!

To be honest I thought it looked like an Nokia N9. I haven't really seen all the range of ipods The bright pink one reminded me of the pink N8. I had to do a search to see what an Ipod mini looked like. In a world where geeks faint at the prospect of a white iphone, a pink one would probably finish them off. Though there is a company in London which will customise them. As a Microsoft fan (yes are a few of us) we do get bludgened by those claim that no matter what they do, they copied Apple, and in the light of the on going Samsung legal battle you can be accustomed to defending those whos products look somewhat similar. Are rectangles copyrighted? I do agree with you though, Yoshipod, that the new phone OS is so different, its new and its on a Nokia - my favourite phone company. There have been many times over the past couple of years when android and IOS obtained features we have had on symbians for sometime. It can be irritating when they say they come up with something first. Even HTC are pushing the ring silencer when you turn their phones over. I could go on but my dinner is nearly ready. If these are real screen shots, its strange to see the Metro style that has been customised by Nokia. Perhaps this is another first. Trying to think of a mobile that is not a rectangle. I think Nokia had a kind of hexagonal one once.

Paul, your writing (or Microsoft's history) is in the 'wishful thinking' period. This is particularly evident in your recent piece, "The Windows 8 Paradox, A Mobile Market Reshuffle, And RIMs Nosedive Into Obscurity" In my view, a strong Microsoft phone OS offering would be the best thing for the industry, and particularly, customers. As much as I'd like to see it, I don't see Microsoft being able to pull this off. There are huge obstacles Microsoft must overcome. Windows Phone 7 is a stopgap until Microsoft can fit Windows 8 onto a phone. Migrating developers and sys admins from the desktop to Metro will be no walk in the park. The criticism you have for RIM could be applied to Microsoft as well. If Microsoft can pull this off, it will be huge.