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.image

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

this gonna be a game changer rip iphone and android

 

[falconeight#IM]

cool very cool

 

[smoledman]

Hopefully the first Apollo devices comes in early September.

 

[socialcarpet]

this gonna be a game changer rip iphone and android

Let's not get carried away.

 

[bear_lx]

it depends on how bad verizon wants it and pushes it, but i am stoked and getting one

 

[invertme]

Let's not get carried away.

Well all indicators show the bulk of WP adopters (specifically the Lumia 900) are people who defected from iOS or Android.

 

[eric12341]

Let's not get carried away.

lets not be pessimistic and underestimative.

 

[socialcarpet]

lets not be pessimistic and underestimative.

RIP Android and iPhone? Really?

Let's shoot for breaking 10% marketshare first. :lol:

 

[mattpga]

Well all indicators show the bulk of WP adopters (specifically the Lumia 900) are people who defected from iOS or Android.

to be expected when iOS and android have around 80% of the smartphone market

 

[scottcraft]

RIP Android and iPhone? Really?



Let's shoot for breaking 10% marketshare first. :lol:

I agree. I think WP will be a major player eventually, but it's going to take a while.

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[bear_lx]

its not going to happen over night, i think we can all agree on this. however, with verizon being a major player, and pushing the deivce like android, this will be a game changer. verizon did the same thing with iphone. prior to verizon selling it at&t and iphone had , what 15% marketshare? now look at it... verizon is the largest network in the nation and certainly advertise. if verizon sees this [platfrom as being profitable, they will make it BIG. trust me...