Mysterious 3-inch Nokia device turns out a name badge

The long-awaited Consumers Electornics Show in Las Vegas isn’t due for two more weeks, but already Nokia gets us excited with a little something.

And by the leaked photos of it, it’s a 3-inch device, which doesn’t feature any hardware buttons at all. Excited? Don’t be.

Sadly, as it turns out, this mysterious device is just a fancy programmable name badge for Nokia representatives to flash around on the CES showroom floors. At first we thought it might be a new compact, button-less Windows Phone 7 device, but our hopes were quickly put to rest.

Undoubtedly, CES 2012 will be much more interesting than overly expensive ID badges and we expect the Nokia Labs team to not disappoint.