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2011-06-21 , 13:21
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Originally Posted by zehjotkah View Post
I was told that the decision to not release the (now named N950) developer device was becasue of the sliding mechanism.
I don't know if this is true or not and to be clear: I doubt it. Nokia made a wonderful sliding mechanism in the Nokia E7 and the one at the dev device I had to play with felt nearly the same.

What remains then as reason?
Management (read: Elop) or anything else?
I remember reading that E7 was delayed because it had flaws in the slider that were noticed late when manufacturing was about to start. So it would make sense that N950 with similar mechanism would have been delayed for the same reason. But why it was cancelled instead of just delayed? That must be due to some bizarre business calculation.