Very early bird rumours I’d call this, but it’s still a good read. Apparently Eldar Murtazin, the forever anti-Nokia guy, claims to have the inside scoop on Nokia’s current Windows Phone device plans while getting an early hands-on with a prototype.

According to him, Nokia currently has two prototypes in their labs, while they have a long roadmap of Windows Phone handsets ready for 2012. The naming scheme is simply following the existing lineup of Nokia, with a prototype that is based on the X7 hardware named as W7, and a W8 prototype based on the current cameraphone N8.

According to Eldar, all of Nokia’s WP prototypes are built upon Qualcomm chipsets per Microsoft’s requirement (and Nokia’s dismay). The W7 model is currently being used in-house for development purposes and will likely be the first to market, according to Eldar, with an 8 megapixel autofocus camera and flash. Murtazin claims that the W7 reminded him of the HTC Mozart without any noticeable customizations to the OS.

Of course, we’re barely going through the 1st quarter of 2011, so this is still not valid at the moment. Who knows what we’ll see in 2012. Maybe a quad-core ARM processor with hyper-threading?

SOURCE via Habrahabr.ru