Microsoft Moonraker LS-50 Images Resurface 10 Years After Canceled Smartwatch Emerged
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Updated · Windows Central · Jun 13
Microsoft Moonraker LS-50 Images Resurface 10 Years After Canceled Smartwatch Emerged
2 articles · Updated · Windows Central · Jun 13
Summary
Newly resurfaced images from a Microsoft designer’s Tumblr show the unreleased Moonraker LS-50 running a Windows-style smartwatch interface a decade after the original report.
The device used a Windows Phone-like Modern UI and was designed to let users read texts by raising their arm, with the display turning off when lowered.
Moonraker had been developed by Nokia and was slated to debut alongside the Lumia 930, with prototype units shown to potential customers at Mobile World Congress.
Microsoft canceled the watch after acquiring Nokia’s phone business, leaving Moonraker as an abandoned early wearable strategy before the Apple Watch reshaped the market.