Murtazin: Nokia to build Windows Phone 7 devices?

By on Dec 20, 2010 at 7:25 AM
General December 20, 2010

While the following seems completely improbable, you have to give the idea consideration due to the source. Mobile Review‘s Eldar Murtazin, who is known for his deep Nokia connections, writes that Nokia and Microsoft are working on a partnership that would create “an entire line of Windows Phone devices that may go under the name Nokia [translated].” That’s right: Microsoft’s software, Nokia’s hardware. Now, before anyone gets too excited, Nokia’s lame-duck Mobile VP, Anssi Vanjoki, has publicly (and quite humorously) stated that this company is not interested in utilizing third-party mobile operating systems such as Google’s Android. Perhaps the new leadership team over at Nokia is rethinking its position on third-party code? It’s a stretch, but it is, to say the least, interesting.

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  • Adrian Crawley

    Didn’t Nokia recently appoint Stephen Elop, a former head of Microsoft’s business division, as their new chief executive?

  • http://www.fbloise.com Frankie Bloise

    Thats some good news… I love my N8 but really hate the Symbian OS.

  • http://twitter.com/don_afrim Don_Afrim

    Not a chance! MS WP7 is dead! They only sold the ones they gave away for free to their employees, nobody else in the world cares about MS’s WP7! Stop the lies, Nokia is not going to use this crappy restrictive software on their beautiful hardware.

    • JJT04

      I have WP7 and I see Market Place growing from 0 to 5000 in a few weeks (6), that tells me there are some people like me who like WP7.

      People like you who start using phones yesterday and believe your OS is going to take off and MS is not going to sell anything, you wrong as you are with everything else your life.

  • Donny

    I would buy a Nokia phone with WP7. Great combo really. Good reception/build with a promising and stable OS seems like a win to me.

  • Anonymous

    My wife has the LG Quantum WP7, it’s a great phone. It needs a couple updates, but over all, the phone is really good.

    Don’t hate something until you’ve owned it and used it for more than 10 seconds. And don’t come up with an opinion based off some web blog.

    If I based my phone buying decisions from blogs, there would only be one phone in the world, the iPhone.

  • Neoprimal

    If they have changed their minds and ship devices with a non-Symbian (mmm, Android) OS in the future, I’m definitely in – because Nokia sells what I don’t think anyone who’s ever owned a Nokia can argue about, GREAT hardware. However this may just be a special ‘in’ scenario with their new hire being from MS so we’ll just have to wait and see. Hopefully it’s that their finally dropping the Symbian only outlook.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the negotiations were held in secret location somewhere in Siberia or why is this news coming from a random tweeter in Russia?

    • Anonymous

      Random tweeter in russia lmao… At least do a site search on the guy.. He’s an idiot but he literally holds the record in leaking prototype phones..

  • Anonymous

    they know too well that software drives hardware sales not the other way around. Nokia may agree to build them some phones as a contract manufacturer but I dont think they will sell is as a Nokia phone

    • Donny

      I don’t know about that. People are pretty stupid and think things like higher megapixel count mean higher quality.

  • Anonymous

    This would be awesome. It would allow Microsoft to focus on what their good at, software. Nokia can focus on what they are the Master of, hardware.

    Remember the netbook Nokia released not long ago. That might have been a test and a hint at what’s to come from the duo. Let’s just hope they price these devices better. It would be a good win for both companies. Nokia could use a way to sell more hardware in the US. And Microsoft could use a good manufacturing partner, that would be cooperative and would equally want to try and bring the best device to market. Unlike Samsung with the Focus and their stab at external memory against Microsoft’s wishes. It seems the present WP7 makers have no clue as to what works well together as far as hardware and software with high level security and encryption. Go for it Nokia and MS!

    • Anonymous

      My friend has one… Its a great lil netbook, its rare to find a netbook with even low end laptop quality.

  • Anonymous

    Since when has Eldar been a reliable source … for anything? Nokia’s future is in Qt, how difficult is that to understand?

  • Anonymous

    Pretty sweet. I might actually buy a Nokia phone. Great hardware, craptastic software.

  • lampy

    Murtazin used to have some real Nokia scoop but after the N8 “incident” he’s been at total war with Nokia, so the only words about Nokia coming out of his mouth are negative. Nowadays, I can’t seriously trust his reporting since I know it’s very biased.

    • tais

      Did Nokia do anything right in the past two years?
      Eldar is just being realistic.

  • james

    HI,

    I would like to give a twist to this news, it would be great for both Nokia and MS, if they come up with window7 tablets with some attractive ui tweak. There is a demand outside US for window7 tablet,although in USA people don’t like windows7 tablet. HP slate 500 is available in us only,but people from outside USA ordered most.

  • Anonymous

    It was a philosophical objection that kept them from using software developed by a third party. Once you’ve developed hardware for Microsoft, what would be the logic keeping you from developing for Android?

    And once you’ve done that, people can rejoice. Make sure your keyboards are worth a damn (take a hard look at what HTC is doing these days). Your cameras speak for themselves. Your battery life is delicious. I could easily see myself buying an Android phone made by Nokia.

    And while I’m on this flight of fancy, I also want beautiful women to give me money and sexual favors on demand… and some nachos.

  • Adam Thomas444

    Such a partnership would make a lot of sense for both companies. It gives Nokia a better position into the American smartphone marketplace, something they’re really missed the boat on. And it gives Microsoft more opportunities where Nokia has dominated, i.e., the rest of the world.

    I haven’t used a WM7 phone but I can’t imagine it being much worse than the abomination Motorola calls the Droid 2. Hell, the damned thing doesn’t know which end is up most days.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IVFCATSFPLYDSNYNZY7K2QBZKU Matthew

    i think nokia would only build a windows phone 7 if hell froze over lol, but i hope they do because windows phone 7 is pretty nice and pretty easy to use to.

  • http://twitter.com/Krustylicious Taras Dhedhi

    I would poor scorn over this in many ways.

    1. wp7 isn’t doing well. Why take a failing OS on to nokia handsets.

    2. There are many many meetings with various companies. Steve Jobs had visited Redmond and Gates to the coffee house (apple).

    3. Tightening up of Symbian, and removing external milestones. Ie Symbian^4 and ^5 just merged into Symbian.

    A whole range of “windows phone 7 ” handsets seems a daft comment .. will that be the Nokia M series ..

    4. Eldar seems to like to sprout hairy green stories at times … As much as he had connections in Nokia some of it could be miss information.

  • http://renaissancechambara.jp Ged Carroll

    Why not? Nokia’s sub-notebook device runs Windows, Nokia has always prioritised connections with Windows machines leaving Mac users poor relations and Stephen Elop would have the relations to make it happen. It also means that Nokia could massively cut costs and staff in user experience, online services and software development.

    The downside to this is that Nokia would be just another licensee alongside HTC, Samsung, Dell etc and could get beaten hollow like i-mate did.

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