If you're weird or obsessive about Windows Phones like we are, you were probably wondering where the heck the mandatory Windows Phone hardware buttons were when you first saw the Nokia Sea Ray this morning. While demoing the phone, we noticed Stephen Elop kept the bottom piece off the screen when he turned the phone on and so our minds became even more confused.
Thanks to a new photo that has leaked from the XDA-Developers forums, it turns out we could have been looking in the wrong place! It looks like the Sea Ray will be carrying over the N9's buttonless approach and will in fact use virtual buttons instead of the predetermined hardware ones. WMPoweruser actually proposed a very interesting theory that suggests how this may be possible:
The picture reveals that the buttons are in fact screen based, likely using the extra 54 pixels of the N9’s 854×480 screen to display the buttons.
Of course that would make the Sea Ray the first Windows Phone to have a resolution of 854x480 and while that would normally be a violation of Microsoft's restrictions, they could let it slide due to the actual screen still being 800x480 and the remaining vertical 54 pixels only being used for controls. However, this is still a rumor because this image has appeared literally out of the blue on a forum so this could be entirely fake (and the virtual buttons in the photo do look pretty 'alpha build' to us).
So what do you think of Nokia's possible move to a buttonless future with the Sea Ray? Would you prefer real buttons (either capacitive or hardware)?
Via: WMPoweruser
Source: XDA-Developers
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