Nokia Windows Phone Devices Could Be Named Searay, Sabre

Nokia's 1st Windows Phone devices hitting the market might be named Searay (or Sea Ray) and

Nokia’s 1st Windows Phone devices could hit shop shelves using the names Sabre and Sea Ray (also spelled as “Searay”).

That rumor comes thanks to Microsoft Canada, that is hosting a Mango App Challenge. At the moment, the Site lists the prize for developing two high quality apps with the Windows Phone platform as “a new Windows Phone 7.5, the most technologically advanced phone available on the market.” The code good reputation Windows Phone 7.5 is “Mango,” and it functions some 500 new tweaks and additions.

According to Web-sites like Tom’s Guide, having said that, Microsoft Canada’s prize description included this little text: “The type of Windows 7.five will differ and is going to be selected at Microsoft’s selecting (examples include Samsung Yukon, Samsung Wembley, NOKIA Searay and NOKIA Sabre).”

Meanwhile, WPCentral posted Oct. 1 an advertisement from T-Mobile Germany, promoting the “new Nokia Searay” with “Windows Telephone 7.5 (Mango)” and “brilliant 3.7 AMOLED [active-matrix organic LED] curved display.”

Over the summer, Nokia CEO (and former Microsoft executive) Stephen Elop flashed a prototype smartphone operating Windows Phone through a press conference. Quite a few people in the audience snapped some spy photos and video of your device, which appeared to be a Nokia N9 smartphone modified for Microsoft’s smartphone platform.

Nokia’s internal code reputable name its Microsoft smartphone was reportedly “Sea Ray,” but it seems somewhat odd that might carry more than towards the final product. The N9 attributes a three.9-inch AMOLED screen, curved to facilitate gesture control and married with a physique engineered from one little bit of polycarbonate. Other on-board hardware consists of near-field communication (NFC) technology, which makes it possible for users to share pictures as well as monetary data by tapping their smartphone against a different NFC-enabled device.

Although each Nokia and Microsoft tout their Windows Phone collaboration like a game-changer, the Finnish phone maker is nonetheless wrestling using the fallout from abandoning its homegrown systems exclusively use Microsoft’s platform. “We would pursue to stay clear of the stock as Symbian smartphone sales are falling off quicker than expected and we're skeptical that new Windows Telephone (WP) models might be able to replace lost profits,” Stephen Patel, an analyst with Gleacher & Co., wrote within a May 31 research note. “Our checks suggest mixed carrier support for Nokia’s transition to WP.”

Nonetheless, there’s anything dangerous than the wounded lion-and having placed an all-or-nothing bet on Windows Telephone since it's solution, Nokia has small choice but to throw every ounce of the technological and marketing capital behind the effort. That will keep things interesting for the next several quarters, no matter if any of those first Nokia devices to kick or punch the market contain the name “Sea Ray.”