Flashback: the Nokia Lumia 800 was created by transplanting WP7 into Nokia N9's body

Last week we covered the Nokia N9 story, this week we said goodbye to Windows for phones. This makes it the perfect time to look at the life of the Nokia Lumia 800 - the first Windows Phone handset from the Finns. We mentioned that the first Lumias reused the N9 polycarbonate body, but the truth runs deeper than that - the "Sea Ray" phone was originally a CDMA version of the Nokia N9 intended for Verizon and Sprint. Nokia was exploring a collaboration with Qualcomm (and other chipset makers) as it thought having wide choice of suppliers will give it leverage during negotiations. Plans...

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