When Nokia announced the N9, the day after that Stephen Elop himself showed the first prototype of their first windows phone code named sea ray, the Sea ray had essentially the same chassis as the N9 a uni-body polycarbonate shell, a very nice wide-angle 8MP camera round the back, hidden ports on the top , all buttons on the side, but the sea ray has the Windows phone hardware chassis requirements to uphold, like a dedicated camera button and 3 capacitive or hardware buttons back,windows,and search, in the case of the sea ray, we expected the three windows phone buttons to be virtual of all things, because the N9’s screen is an unusual screen resolution called FWVGA or more commonly 854x480, thats 54 pixels more than WP7 can use, and we initially thought that nokia was using those 54 pixels and virtual WP7 buttons, but alas, this morning we were greeted with a video from what seems to be a factory floor, with a N9-ish type device pulled from either a hard case or a stealth case, similar to how the iPhone 4 was concealed in a stealth case to make it look like a 3GS , then booted up into Windows phone 7.5 “Mango”
as you can see the “sea ray” prototype boots up into mango pretty speedily we get a look at the camera interface which the tipster launched using the dedicated 2 stage camera button, but after that the demonstrator held the power button down to reveal a goodbye screen and turned the device off, also incredibly speedy.
Source : Engadget
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