Leaked Sony Ericsson handset photo features Windows Phone 7 OS

PanARMENIAN.Net - A leaked, and somewhat blury photo of a Sony Ericsson handset has emerged, apparently showing the handset running the Windows Phone 7 operating system.

Although Nokia expects to be the dominant smartphone vendor for the OS, it is not an exclusive arrangement and Sony Ericsson has said that it aims to release its own WP7 based phone this year. Whether this is an actual Sony Ericsson phone designed to work with the WP7 operating system, or just an existing model modified to run the OS as a hack is not clear though, cellular-new reports.

Some questions remain about how the OS is integrated with the handset hardware, as the photo shows the phone in landscape mode with the keyboard extended, but the screen is still configured for portrait mode touchscreen use.