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Nokia Windows Phone OS Smartphone: The Facts
By Mike Browne on February 11,
 2011 at 00:00,

Nokia CEO, Stpehen Elop, has announced that Nokia and Microsoft are working together to make Windows Phone OS the principal smartphone choice to be used on future Nokia smartphone hardware. It’s a shock move that many analysts see as the right choice. Find out more about Nokia smartphones running the Windows Phone operating system after the jump.

Windows Phone OS on a Nokia smartphone, who would have thought it possible? Well, it’s going to happen but it simply isn’t a case of Microsoft slapping their OS onto Nokia branding hardware. No, you’ll find this is very much a partnership, with Nokia using the platform as a basis to deliver all its key goodness.

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So, we’ll see Nokia imaging solutions, where it currently rules the roost, being incorporated into the operating system. In fact, Nokia will be driving the whole future of the Windows Phone platform, as it will bring not only its hardware expertise but also its design language so we’ll start to see Windows Phone devices at all rice points and not just the high-end.

Nokia won’t have it all their own way, as Microsoft will get a look in. For example, Bing will become the browser of choice, while Microsoft adCenter will be the underpinning ad services on Nokia devices. Microsoft development tools will also be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones.

Nokia Windows Phone devices will still come with Nokia Maps and GPS services. But just as with the browser, we’ll find that Bing and AdCenter will play a larger part, which should make local searches quicker, easier and cheaper.

Where does this leave apps, as at the moment the Ovi Store only carries Symbian apps? Well, it looks like Microsoft Marketplace will be coming on-board so we’ll easily be able to tap into content for your new device.

We’re yet to see any details on the roadmap, how soon we can get our hands on the first Nokia Windows Phone is still open to debate but this sounds like the start of a beautiful new relationship. What do you think, looking forward to getting your hands on a Nokia Windows Phone? Let us know what you think in the Comments below.

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  • Ordinary Boy

    Today and indeed this weeks entire events are in preparation for a merger between the two companies later in the year.
    Its a been on the cards for a while but the concern was that it was always going to be a bitter pill to swallow by all sides.
    Elop was brought in to prepare Nokia and the Markets for the merger.

    We will now see Nokia’s value deteriorate to facilitate the merger.

    Microsoft has never been comfortable with doing hardware unless they have to.
    But in this case they have to.
    As Charles’s article states, the future is mobile and Microsoft know it.

    Everything Microsoft does is for the long term.
    No other company could have afforded to do what they did with the xbox for example. ie. make a loss for years before ultimately becoming dominant.
    This is what is going to happen in the mobile space as well.

    Meego and qt is definitely dead, Symbian is as good as dead.

  • markc

    You’ve got to be kidding… buy a WP7 Nokia device… never!!!

    I want a freaking Meego device yesterday. I want to develop apps with Qt, QtQuick and QtCreator… fuck the microsoft environment.

  • Jason

    This isn’t the start of a beautiful relationship. It’s an admission of failure, people have been saying for years how bad Nokia’s software was and this is something Nokia have been forced into, as year after year of stagnation has resulted in this, the N97 was an awful phone, the N8 apart from the camera was poor, the hardware was low spec , screen resolution too low and the web browser at launch was from the dark ages. I hope you don’t delete my comment, but I’m guessing you will, as this blog clearly does not tolerate anything anti Nokia. This is just a comment as a former Nokia customer.

    PS. Bing isn’t a browser, genius, it’s a frickin search engine, still pretty inferior to Google. Internet Explorer is the browser on Windows Phone 7, it’s actually going to be rather good with HTML5 support coming soon, these are called web standards, something which Nokia never understood.

  • Alan

    Really hacked off about this, after just buying a new Nokia N8. All I can see now is Symbian developers abandoning the platform in droves, which means apps will start to dry up for my mobile. Not a happy bunny.

  • Sleeper Service

    Here’s some real Nokia Windows Phone facts for you instead of the constant sunshine up Nokia’s ass from this site.

    No multitasking.
    Broken microSD support
    No USB Host support
    Qt development? Not supported.
    Customisation? Not supported.
    Ovi Store? Not supported.
    Installing apps from places other than Marketplace? Not supported.
    Fewer apps than any other platform.
    Smaller install base than any other platform.

    And so on, and so forth. Basically, a massive, massive step backwards from either Symbian or MeeGo from any technical standpoint. “But is sure is purrdy, hyuk hyuk.” What a load of trash.

  • anticipation_of_a_new_lovers_arrival

    If the future is mobile – why are nokia effectively getting out of the smartphone software buisiness ? What are the consequenses if this fails? Nokia had better hope that this works

    This move is a kick in the teeth for all those developers who stuck with Symbian, first we had the Code Warrior / symbian signed debacles – now this. In an app centric world who is going to write anything for Symbian OS now.

  • Jay

    Great news, maybe the combination can speed up windows mobile. I need a phone that works and sinks with windows word, excell & outlook. I need business apps to track job expences, time, inventories and equipment costs and maintanence records. I don;t need apps that make fart sounds or tip beer mugs, for those that do I recomend a drone, for those that need a business tool stick with microsoft.

  • joelsk

    it’s not so much the third ecosystem as claimed, but keeping it closed sourced. meego will definitely take off, but with nokia behind it, it would have been a serious contender to android. ms could not let that happen. the only reason i use windows is because most of the commercial programs are built with win in mind. if mobile apps shifted to an open source os like it has in android, and meego when it comes out, how long do you think it will take to start eating into ms bottom line? that, in essence, is the whole issue. but not to worry, with intel and others squarely behind it, meego will go far. provided of course app developers dun abandon it wholesale. even the rough around the edges meego performs much better and has much better ui than android and wp7 combined!