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The mysterious phone I’m testing

A little while ago I got a note from 3.

“Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap.

“Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next.

The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to get us pondering. Speculation abounded around the Mobile Industry Review offices.

Blackberry, maybe?

Surely not the Sony Ericsson Xperia?

N96?

It’s gotta be the Blackberry, right?

Wrong.

It arrived laden with strict EMBARGO notices all over it, reminiscent of a document from X-Files marked REALLY TOP SECRET. We always respect embargoes here at Mobile Industry Review. I don’t hold with the ‘publish it anyway’ viewpoint when other people are trusting you with their products and services.

And respect it we did.

Here then is a first look at what I’ve been playing with:

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As Rolf Harris is fond of saying, “Can you guess-wot-it-is-yet?”

No cheating. No clicking on the image to magnify it. No skipping through the Flickr feed. See if you can guess, just from that picture.

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