Originally Posted by mikecomputing

well if he is a Nokia emplye maybe he is actually working on weekdays and dont have time sitting here all days...

Originally Posted by CowMan

I suspect the teaser 'leak' was intentional. The 3 day grace before the video was taken down is a bit long, and Nokia doesn't seem to have appealed to YouTube to use it's content matching to remove copies. It is most certainly a teaser, as it lacks clear shots of the hardware and shows two (or by my eye, three) inconsistent variants. The song is cut-off at the end, which can only be intentional but probably done to imply there is 'more to come' & that this is an unfinished video ('leak').

I also can't reconcile the type of hints dropped by some posters here with my own experience under NDA's, nor logically what their relationship would be to Nokia, except from a marketing angle. The predictions are vague but universally positive, non-technical, reliant on mysterious contacts & the general line is consistent.

Together, this implies that what we are seeing now is an attempt to ramp up the general marketing in an attempt to create buzz, nothing more. The only conclusion to draw at this point is that there is /a/ device pending, but we knew this from the FCC filing.

And if this is so, then Nokia may be switching into damage control, as any marketer watching this thread or similar ones alike would probably be quite worried about how far the expectations have been risen & the veracity of the virtual keyboard/hardware keyboard debate. Reading backwards, I can see indications of this ~ though this perhaps is confirmation bias.

In a few weeks, we'll know the fate of the RM-680. I'm hoping it will be plausibly available to replace my N900. If there is also a keyboardless version down the pipes, that would be perfect as a second unit - or for the wife (as sliding mechanisms are not toddler friendly, one advantage of the sealed & nearly buttonless iPhone). Without something more concrete at this point though - images, specs, clarifications - I find this thread is breeding more fear/frustration than anticipation.

To those who might read a line or two above the wrong way, rest assured - I mean not to impugn anyones reputation nor cast doubt on their claims ~ these are my observations, by no means accusations.

Originally Posted by Brock

10:17AM Andy Lees is saying the disconnect from one application to the next is like "walking through the front door" when trying to go from the living room to the kitchen.

That sentence is stolen from marko ahtisaari, he said the same thing about meego at LeWeb 2010!

you guys cant imagine how much i dislike ms...

Originally Posted by misterc

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