Nokia’s aluminum body Catwalk allegedly shown in a “secret room” at MWC, impresses audience

 

 

This year’s MWC might have been a pretty dull affair but it seems a select few actually had the keys to “secret rooms” where they were shown devices not yet globally announced by vendors. Mobile Review’s well-connected Eldar Murtazin claims to have been inside one such room, which happened to be that of Nokia, no less. Murtazin claims that Nokia executives showed them an “aluminum flagship” phone that had a good camera, which sounds familiar to the Nokia EOS aka the Catwalk that was leaked in January. 

The EOS was widely expected to be the successor of the Lumia 920 but no one had confirmed seeing the device yet, and all rumors were based on second-hand information. Murtazin is the first person to have seen the device and has written publicly about it. He says that the aluminum casing is premium and left a very good impression on him. Even the camera seems to be good and it would be a popular Lumia smartphone.

However, he believes that the device still won’t do huge volumes as it runs on Windows Phone, which would be the only stumbling block. We expect Nokia to announce the EOS/Catwalk at its annual Nokia World event, which usually happens in September-October timeframe.