Nokia Proto Spotted on eBay (N87 Possibly)

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Wow... Looks pretty nice... If you're going to use T9, it might as well be on a real keypad...

I wonder if it's also a touch screen device...
 
Whoa, someone here had better grab that! That's a very interesting design and makes me wonder if its an early sibling of the N8..a lot of their recent design cues mixed in one phone.
 
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Nah... The UI and 12mp camera indicates otherwise
 
I think there was a device closer to this one on a roadmap that leaked a little bit later (the one where vasco AKA the N8 was listed) as it's a bit off from the corolla.

The pictures are pretty interersting though-a symbian^2 styled homescreen on a non-touchscreen phone (judging by the size of the options softkey at the bottom of the screen, they're meant to be triggered by the keys and not by touching them). I also wonder if that screen is a higher resolution than QVGA.

Design language also seems very N86/N97 esque, so I doubt it'll ever release in this form. Hopefully the fact that something like this exists means that non-touchscreen S60 phones will continue to see some kind of improvement in the UI.
 
I like it alot more than what the N8 has turned out to be (another slab with just touch UI), albeit a class leading camera. This looks great.
 
The market for a phone like this in 2010 is a small one though. Probably the reason this was scrapped over its touch screen relative.
 
Unfortunately the heads at nokia think the consumer populace doesn't need a QWERTY device with xenon yet :( do you think you'll be replacing your N97/N900 with an N9?
 
Thanks for the pics. :buddies:


As for the phone, **** nooooooooooo.


The back looks N97 (granted the camera is better). The t9 keypad reminds me of an old Sony phone. The rest of it just has a "WTF feel to it". Ummm just nooooo... :lol:
 
Right now, that's the way it's looking, though I'm liking the rumors I'm reading about the HTC Knight and also a rumored Droid X with a qwerty behind it.
 
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