Leaked Images of the Cancelled Microsoft Moonraker Smartwatch

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Posted June 13, 2015 at 6:08pm by iClarified

Leaked images of Microsoft's cancelled Moonraker smartwatch have surfaced online. The smartwatch was developed by Nokia and shown to potential customers at Mobile World Congress last year. The original plan was to reveal it alongside the Lumia 930; however, it was cancelled around the same time Microsoft acquired the company.

Images of smartwatch surfaced on a Tumblr blog today and were spotted by @evleaks. The Tumblr blog belongs to a Microsoft employee but the images have since been deleted.

The Verge reports that the Moonraker never made it to market because Microsoft was focusing on its wearable Band.

While the Moonraker had a number of sensors to allow you to lift your arm to read texts or drop it to turn off the display, Microsoft opted for the Band as it had more functionality. Nokia took the familiar "Metro" interface from Windows Phone and paired it with simple email, phone, and messaging apps on its smartwatch. There was even a camera remote feature to take pictures on a smartphone from the watch. Facebook and MixRadio integration was also built-in, alongside customizable watch faces and different colored straps.

It's unlikely that the Moonraker will make it to market as Microsoft is now working on the second generation Band.

Take a look at some images of the smartwatch below...

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Leaked Images of the Cancelled Microsoft Moonraker Smartwatch

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Steve Humann - June 15, 2015 at 3:27am

I've seen a whole lot of Microsoft vaporware over the years. Copycat "improved" products promised in order to prevent people from buying an original product made by an originator. Most often in a category or space that MS was thinking of jumping into now that someone else had done the hard work of implementing an idea and marketing it to a public who saw that the product was good. This blog post might be an accidental leak but it also might be their first ex post facto attempt to counterfeit innovation. Kind of like how God hid dinosaur bones on earth to test our faith as Christians. Fight me in real life.

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gamerscul9870 - June 15, 2015 at 12:16am

Still higher than blinded hallucinated samsheeps! LAWLXD

Gwyneth - June 15, 2015 at 12:20am

Lol it is funny how people are trying to top my answer wity a debate about Samsung and Apple. I personally don't even like Samsung products lol! But thank you for proving my point exactly about fanatics!

AoS_HJ - June 14, 2015 at 10:21pm

Shame they weren't made as they look pretty good. Always good to have healthy competition and keep pushing each other to produce the 'next big thing'. Maybe in the future.

Gwyneth - June 15, 2015 at 12:06am

I totally agree with you!

SayingWhatEveryonesThinking - June 15, 2015 at 12:26am

Healthy competition is great! But these sucked and paled by comparison. It would have been another example of Microsoft's inferiority. Maybe they can do better next time.

yas9in - June 14, 2015 at 3:35am

I really don't agree with all the people saying Microsoft is copying apple. they're showing a lot of originality and only take ideas from their competitors, never complete designs (like samsung does). and remember this watch was developed and was going to be sold before the apple watch so I don't think it's fair to say they copied apple. it also looks good to me, I'm frankly surprised Microsoft decided to ditch it but I guess they were looking at the marketing side of it.

str8narw - June 14, 2015 at 1:20pm

Except Microsoft had nothing to do with this watch, besides killing it. It was a Nokia design and development before Microsoft bought the phone business from Nokia.

Gwyneth - June 15, 2015 at 12:12am

Good point!

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 2:35am

It deserves to be. Surface isn't selling as they expected due to 8 which may have foreshadowed this.

2682dbd - June 14, 2015 at 5:34am

the surface pro 3 is actually doing really well! don't assume. you sound ignorant

Techno - June 14, 2015 at 1:57am

They should just sell,the blue ones to match the BSD.

SayingWhatEveryonesThinking - June 13, 2015 at 10:26pm

Every time I see a new Microsoft product, I'm convinced the company is completely based on copying Apple products. Except for Windows 8, their biggest failure. Maybe instead of loathing Microsoft I should enjoy the fact they are, in some small way, providing competition to Apple to keep them better. They're also competition for Google to make them better too. No more Microsoft Office thanks to Google Docs. Come on Apple, beat them all at that one too.

JollySonX - June 13, 2015 at 11:18pm

Windows 8? I'm pretty sure iOS 8 has been classed as the worse iOS lol

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 1:23am

iOS 8 wasn't a problem to me, even if it was a failure though, it's still a success compared to windows! It's still textured like the new upcoming iOS 9, textured, and nothing is sacrificed beyond effects! LawlXD @SWET well said. That's what micro$oft is based off of since they made 8. I still use 7. Never upgrading again!

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 5:51am

Apple pages is what quality work is, besides just save it to iCloud Drive then, not to mention android doesn't have thousands of things that prove what iOS can handle. All I must sum up there is how many users can trust the latest versions of both android and iOS, guess where that heads exactly? Lag freedom? iOS had that forever. Android won't see its light of day. Android is light years away from owning Apple. Google can't even outsell their entire products combined. In what way did they surpass Apple?

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 5:57am

Don't forget, Ampy will get you full battery wherever you go. No matter what iOS does to the battery good or bad, my ample doesn't needs electricity to charge my phone. This makes power save mode useless.

SayingWhatEveryonesThinking - June 14, 2015 at 6:35am

No one truly believes Microsoft came up with this idea on their own, having such an extremely similar look to the Apple Watch. Apple was in development on this for over a year obviously. If Microsoft wanted to rush out a similar product and be first to market, it would have been this. But, they saw what they were up against; a superior product that would have put them to shame. Sensors and features Microsoft had no idea how to pull off. They made the right decision to shelve it. Maybe they can match its quality and add features to make it worthwhile. It'll just make Apple do something even better next time.

JollySonX - June 14, 2015 at 6:04pm

Even if they didn't see the apple watch before they designed this, it's still a watch, and there are only a few designs, square or round lol and a colourful band isn't that unexpected, after all who doesn't want there own color, @nat I don't have many issues about iOS8 but I'm sure it bin classed at the worse (even if it ain't that bad) lol

bean - June 13, 2015 at 10:15pm

Are they all missing GPS, free community Walkie Talkie, web texting, and wab chatting as the standard watch-apps?!!

NoGoodNick - June 13, 2015 at 9:24pm

The band makes the entire phone look cheap, due to the low quality plastic and neon colors. But after seeing the sophisticated Apple Watch (designed to look like a collectable watch), I'm a bit jaded.

8a42da0 - June 14, 2015 at 5:37am

awww poor guy, you probably bought the iphone 5c didnt you?

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 6:38am

Or he could have won it like me! Prizevault.com

Mang Domeng - June 13, 2015 at 8:45pm

Plastic Apple Watch...

Jed - June 13, 2015 at 8:15pm

looks like they tried to copy Apple Watch and failed.

Dommm - June 13, 2015 at 8:52pm

This might of been before the apple watch was revealed

TomTom4049 - June 14, 2015 at 1:44am

Probably a knee-jerk product being Microsoft knew Apple was working on their watch. Me Too products are created with the hopes of fooling the buying public that a phone is a phone, a tablet is a tablet, and in this case that a watch is just as good as any other watch. I find there are basically two kinds of consumers of tech. There are those who want "good" and those that want "cheap". Those two are mutually exclusive. As the old saying goes, "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

gamerscul9870 - June 14, 2015 at 5:52am

not as much as you are.