What appeared to be just a simple tease has become a full-fledged hunt for every possible nugget of information out there. We finished watching the full 22-minute Nokia "Sea Ray" event video and we've discovered plenty of nuggets to chew on while we anticipate more concrete information coming soon.
At the beginning of the presentation, CEO Stephen Elop just completed the N9 portion of his day and began talking more broadly about MeeGo's place alongside Windows Phone and how the company plans to execute both. He never said they would be supporting both side-by-side, but he did make a few interesting notes about the N9 that ties into our own conspiracy theories:
"There is a whole collection of innovation available in the N9 that is going to live on."
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"Another example [of innovation in the N9 living on] is the user interface, the user experience. Well we're not saying precisely what device or when or how, but the user experience you see here [in the N9] is something that will live on as well."
"A third example of innovation that will live on is the beautiful industrial design."
Again we have to stress that Elop never said specifically whether this information would apply to either Windows Phone or Symbian handsets, but we still have to assume that at least some of this is a tease towards their first babies with Microsoft. In the video we noticed that the "Sea Ray" was using an older build of Mango (one that still had the white-and-green aesthetic in the Games Hub). Therefore it's perfectly reasonable to assume that they already have a more recent build with some deeper UI customizations than just the barebones Mango we saw today. Also, the Sea Ray is obviously a strong impression of the Nokia N9 which is what Elop was referring to about the design.
For more about Nokia's applications and more Windows Phones, jump past the break!
After Elop left the stage, a Nokia rep took us through a demo of Mango. While that part wasn't terribly exciting (he went through pretty much everything we've already seen), he did mention a very valuable piece of information at the end of his demo: Nokia applications are on their way to the company's Windows Phones. Here's the full quote (note: his accent was pretty thick so we missed a word near the end and guessed on another):
"The last thing I want to tell you is that when we start shipping the Sea Ray to the consumers we will have the Nokia applications. We will have the Nokia Maps drive application for (through-through?) navigation. We will have the pre-installed applcations for consumers that they can smoothly transfer the old contacts to new Windows-based device. Most likely the many users will be the ex-Nokia users. And a couple of more applications and there will be opportunity for ____ people to install their own (relevant?) applications on this UI."
So at least two Nokia applications have been confirmed: Maps (which will include Navigation) and Contacts Transfer, presumably from Symbian to Windows Phone. The last bit of the quote is a little more ambiguous (and the strong accent certainly didn't help us decipher what he meant) but he did say that people would be able to install their own applications. Could he have been referring to Microsoft's promised official homebrew solution?
After the demo, Stephen Elop returned to the stage and made one final tease this time related to the coming onslaught of Nokia Windows Phones expected to hit the market.
"By the way [the Nokia Sea Ray is] just the first one. I have other devices completely different from that that are already working as well."
All we can say is...sweet! Nokia has definitely come out swinging in these past few days and we can't wait to see more about "Sea Ray" as well as the other devices that look 'completely different'.
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