Nokia’s first Windows Phone device due in 2012, says report

By on Mar 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM
mobile March 14, 2011

According to a report filed by Daily News & Analysis, Nokia will bring its first Windows Phone handset to market sometime in 2012. The information comes courtesy of Nokia India’s MD, D. Shivakumar, who was quoted as saying his company’s first Windows Phone handset would become available “roughly 12 months from now.” The information contradicts previous reports, and comments made by Nokia executives, that implied a smartphone running Microsoft’s mobile operating system was on target for a 2011 release. Nokia is expected to release close to twenty new Symbian smartphones in 2011.

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  • Anonymous

    That’s in a big battery extending case, right?

    hehe

    • Anonymous

      No, they just need a special cover to enclose Windows Mobile 7 so that it doesn’t leak out like radiation and contaminate the general populace.

  • Stan Winstone

    By which time WP7 will look even less relevant and they’ll have to ‘start over’ again with WP8. Pathetic…

    • Anonymous

      Don’t you think that’s a bit early to call? WP7 is pretty great actually

      • TheOtherGeoff

        any device without cut and paste can’t be called pretty great. I’m not holding out hope that NoDo will be out by 2012;-)

      • Anonymous

        Lots of people think the iPhone’s pretty great. They even thought so for the entire first year (or more?) when it didn’t have copy/paste. And now it’s the #2 smartphone platform.

        I think WP7 has something up it’s sleeve.

      • http://twitter.com/JaredHylton Jared Hylton

        NoDo launches on Sprint’s Arrive. :) Soooo…..yeah, looks like it was before 2012. :)

  • Anonymous

    Looks like a SideKick with tiles…..

    No thanks.

    • Senor Chang

      Your jabs get weaker every day. Like, we all have a circle of friends and there’s always the one guy who thinks he’s funny but is so unfunny that it makes the rest of the group sad… that would definitely be you.

      BTW… next Sidekick runs Android. cheers.

      • Chut Pata

        So I guess you guys are so pessimist that even the funniest guy in your group is unfunny, and no matter how much he tries, you guys remain sad. Poor guy. Do him a favor and kick him out of your circle.

      • Anonymous

        I know, it’s all that energy I put into yo’ mamma!

        What can I say: wa-wa-wa …..

      • http://twitter.com/JaredHylton Jared Hylton

        And the next Sidekick is ganna be fuckin’ fierce! :)

  • Anonymous

    For the people who moan and groan ad nauseum that there is a dearth of non-Apple stories…just re-read the title of this article…

  • Anonymous

    Another apple story……blahhhhhh

    • TUPAPI

      Norm, don’t take away PAPINYC’s job now. It is his job to make every non-apple article into one. DROID DOES! LMAO!

      • http://twitter.com/JaredHylton Jared Hylton

        Lmao, PAPINYC is a raggedy Mexican who somehow has the $$ to actually afford Apple products.

  • http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

    These can’t come soon enough. I am dying to get a WP7 device, but Sprint and HTC have failed with the Arrive. Where is a global roaming WP7 device? Microsoft, free me from my BB.

    Oh, and Nokia makes way better hardware than HTC.

  • Anonymous

    So, just in time for the first update from Microsoft then?

  • Anonymous

    White one looks pretty slick…but they look a bit on the thicker side.

  • Anonymous

    It takes Nokia that long to release a new device…by that time Samsung will be on the Galaxy S VIII. lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ARPXVCEBPD2KGMPOOSCSBB5X3Q The Blind Squirrel Theory

    No rush guys.

  • Chut Pata

    Who cares for a Windows phone? Nokia is the biggest seller because it is also the cheapest, and is affordable to third world countries where phones are not tied to carriers. Here my iPhone, Droid, and/or Blackberry is subsidized by carriers and I get it for under $200. Why should I get a Nokia?

  • Anonymous

    2012? Wtf?

  • Tiny

    Are you guys joking one whole year?????? Stick with HTC for now

  • http://www.facebook.com/bela.goblos Bela Goblos

    I hate to say it again..Too little, too late…SonyEricsson jumped on Android at the right time, the new Experia Arc and Neo are amazing phones..
    I used to love Nokia, but they are too bloated, too slow, and too full of themselves.
    They will be history in a few years.
    I mean jeez, how long it take to develop a bloody W7 phone???
    Just take an already working hardware, and load a different OS on it…More than a year for one phone? It is going to be out of date even before it comes out.

    • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

      I’m a former Nokia user myself. The N95 was the king of the industry for a couple years, but Symbian was their Achilles Heel. Much like Windows 95 by the time it had been mutated into Windows ME, they piled too much garbage onto a base that couldn’t handle it. Add the fact that mobile processors didn’t have the horsepower to handle their poor application handling/switching and you get the disaster that caused them to ditch Symbian.

  • http://twitter.com/leemeade77 Lee Meade

    Jeez. How much are they paying the new CEO anyway? A year to get this to market is simply too long.
    Although, if they keep leaking stuff out that may create a little buzz.
    This just seems way too slow though.

  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    Bwahahaha! They announce the move to WP7 and abandonment of Symbian (good riddance!) in early 2011, but won’t have their WP7 phones out for almost a year??! No wonder Nokia is in so much trouble. If you were to write a book on how NOT to do things, this would be Chapter 1.

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