A Nokia engineer has mock-ups are made of a proprietary interface of the Finnish manufacturer for the Windows Phone. The mock-ups to show more toggles and more features to the notification bar. The interface will not be used.
The development of the interface and screenshots in the past year transferred to Accenture, including the development of Symbian from Nokia has taken over. Therefore, it is as good as ruled out that Nokia’s own interface for Windows Phone, writes Pocketnow.
Nokia denies that it ever plans has had the interface of Windows Phone to adapt. “They are purely the own mock-ups of the engineer, and they are never made as a part of a project within or for Nokia.” The Finnish manufacturer has with Microsoft contractual right established for the interface to change.
The pictures show a completely different interface than the standard in Windows Phone. It shows the notification bar also such things as new e-mails, while in Windows Phone is not the case. Also there are toggles to see in the mock-up. Toggles to fast wi-fi, 3g, bluetooth or gps on or off are missing also in Windows Phone.
The concept, which seems to be for the lockscreen or home screen, seems to be loosely based on Bubbles, a Nokia app for Symbian that allows the lockscreen is replaced by a screen with drops. For example, by the drop with an e-mailicoon on the ontgrendeldruppel, open the phone in the email app.
Nokia has already indicated the interface of Windows Phone not to want to change. Previously said Nokia managing director Stephen Elop already in an interview with Tweakers.net not much to want to change to Windows Phone. “We have developers thinking. If we do things totally different to do, developers can’t be confident that their apps work well on Nokia phones. That is bad for everyone: for us, for developers, for consumers and for the whole Windows Phone platform.”
Nokia has two handsets with Windows Phone in the Netherlands: the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. There, within a short time of two devices: the Lumia 900 and the Lumia 610. Nokia sees Windows Phone as the smartphone platform that most sell them. For now, that is not so; in the fourth quarter of last year sold Nokia more than fifteen times as many Symbian devices as Windows Phones.
