Nokia Enlists Russian Police To Get Prototype Smartphone Back From Blogger

In April, Moscow-based blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of Nokia’s forthcoming N8 smartphone on his site mobile-review.com. Nokia asked for its return for weeks to no avail. Now they’re calling on the Russian police to get their phone back.

Murtazin wrote the post from a working prototype he acquired, and he was not particularly impressed with what he saw, though he did admit that he was was working from an early, pre-production unit. Nokia initially requested the phone’s return in an official blog post titled “one of our children is missing,” which is kind of a weird way to talk about your lost prototype phone.

Read more…