Nokia Windows Phone 8 Handsets Showing Up On Verizon & T-Mobile

[deadwrong03]

Moving away from the hubbub about Windows Phone 8 upgrades, we now also have increasing evidence of actual new Windows Phone 8 hardware being tested in the wild.
The latest is via DSLReport’s mobile speed test, which shows the user agent of two Windows Phone 8 handsets, one named Qualcomm Fluid and the other Nokia Fluid. Both of course have been spotted before, but now the full user agent confirms that these are Windows Phone 8 handsets running IE10.
The Verizon handset also seems pretty snappy, likely indicating LTE on board. The same can unfortunately not be said for the T-Mobile speed test.
Of note is that we are seeing windows phone 8 handsets on the same networks in our own server logs, with screen resolutions of 768×768 and 480×480. Also of note is most of our Windows Phone 8 traffic not coming from Microsoft is coming from AT&T. So far nothing from Sprint however.
The relevant pages can be seen in Google’s cache here and here (13th April), but may of course disappear soon.




Nokia Windows Phone 8 handsets showing up on T-Mobile, Verizon | WMPoweruser

[kyderr]

Hardware will be a big question. I'd love to see a keyboard slider, but Alas, I think the days of my Touch Pro2 are near an end. SD Card support is a big plus, and some more customization.

[eric12341]

Yea WP8 will support SD cards, hardware keyboards are dead in the water at least for high end phones. Low end Androids still have them.

[EyeB]

i saw some pictures of nokia's new wp8 phones (or at least speculation) looks nice