Elop confirms Nokia Windows Phones are already in the works

By on Mar 18, 2011 at 11:05 PM
mobile March 18, 2011

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop confirmed to Reuters that his company has started developing its first Windows Phone handset. “We’re right now, today, having people work on the first Windows Phone devices,” said the CEO. Nokia announced that it would adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system on future smartphones during a February press event. The timeline of when the Finnish company will release its first Windows-based handset has been a debated topic amongst many industry analysts and pundits. While it is widely assumed that consumers will have to wait until at least 2012 to purchase such a device, Elop has publicly stated that he wants a Nokia-branded smartphone running Microsoft’s OS in market before the close of 2011. The terms of the deal are expected to be finalized within the next few months.

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  • http://twitter.com/llsethj Seth Weintraub

    Captain obvious reporting for duty. What would the alternative answer be? “Nah, we haven’t started working on Windows Phone 7 yet. We’ve got lots of time to get around to that later this year while our other two dead OSes languish”

  • Petey

    Window Phone 7?… eww.

    tried it out & wasn’t impress by it.

    • No

      Millions of others will be impressed though.

      Sent from my windows phone:)

      • Petey

        Good for them, I was just stating my opinion.

      • Qnx

        like…2 million?

        hahhaha

      • Petey

        was it 2 million users or 2 million window phone 7 shipped out?… LOL!

    • Anonymous

      I wasn’t impressed by the overall package but it does exceed iOS and Android in many places.. I’m hoping Nokia brings some Symbian customization and a more advanced UI to WP7.. If they do I may switch from Android.. But now I’m to much of a power user for basic homescreens

  • AlaskaHome1959

    Sell your stock in Nokia now before it takes a complete nose dive.

  • Qnx

    who cares

  • Anonymous

    You all can laugh all you want although Nokia isn’t known for their OS they are known for good hardware. I gotta give it up to monkey boy Balmer. Microcrap is definitely planning ahead for a long drawn out war in mobile. Should be interesting to watch kiddies.

    • Anonymous

      With Nokia holding a hard fist over its unlocking alogorithms (aka BB5 SL3), I will never get a Nokia phone.

      I need a phone that can use other sim cards and Nokia has failed this on the spot. You can say I am cheap for buying subsidized phone, but that’s the common thing for North American, to get a phone on contract and stick with it for a year or two.

      Microcrap is never a “serious” player in the mobile space. I think this joint team won’t get very far out of the starting line.

    • Steve Hillshire

      As much as you may think Nokia’s hardware is going to help, if the interface blows, no one is going to buy it. Doesn’t matter if its HTC hardware, Nokia hardware or anyone else for that matter. Further, MS will also need the phone to sell big in the states…and right now, Nokia doesn’t mean squat in the states. The only thing Nokia is known for here is the cheap plastic POS dumb phones that look like a 2nd grader designed them out of building blocks. The only thing that is going to save MS now is if they allow custom UIs and themes to be applied to get rid of the gay tiles they stuck on the screen.

  • Anonymous

    I’m encouraged to see the pairing between MS and Nokia as WP7 deserves more attention. If Nokia builds hardware with the same specs as HTC, but also keeps Nokia’s reputed build quality, then a lot more people will be reviewing that platform

    iPhones are a great product, but the more competition there is, the better it is for consumers.

    I’m looking for an upgrade soon, from my Windows Mobile 6.1 Touch Diamond :) Right now, I have no foreseeable brand allegiance. Android, WP7, BB and Apple (likely iPhone 5 timeframe) will all be options.

    • Anonymous

      I loved my Touch Pro sucks the WP7 is nothing like it… Made Android the only choice for me

    • Betelgeuse Orion

      i agree, nokia HW is pretty good stuff, and the resale value is fucking amazing!

      i sold this piece of shit e62 last week for $80!!!! (phone was in good cond but the software is crap thanks to cingular)

      hell i wouldnt pay $20 for that crippled pile of shit

  • Jsantana0793

    I own an Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD). I came from owning an Iphone. Well, the only downside to owning the phone is not the phone it self or the OS. It’s T-Mobile. The phone is very, very easy to use, beautiful OS, I love the apps and the the way it downloads apps with in seconds unlike Iphone and Android and let me say, don’t nock it. It’s an excellent OS that has tons of room to improve and it can be the OS that can beat them all. People under estimated the Xbox and look at how its improved. Now, the phones OS still needs some features that I love on the Iphone, but those are already down the pipe. I’m not a fanboy, I love all sorts of technology, but this OS has so much portential. Keep in mind, Look how long it took for Iphone to get where they are now. What update iOS 4.3???? Yea, it took some numbers of update and still no phone is perfect, but what is a perfect phone. There are limitations…

    • Always Cool

      The difference here is that when the iPhone came out, there was nothing like it on the market. It was a totally new and revolutionary device with an OS that radically changed the way which we communicated with the outside world, while at the same time, Apple gradually took users through the improvement process, and still managed to keep satisfied the majority of them. With W7 it’s a totally different game. There are many smartphones on the market at present with lots of features that W7 lacks, and people are not gonna wait around for MS to take its sweet time to keep up with the rest of the pack.
      The Nokia/MS partnership was formed under a cloud of fear. Both could see the handwriting on the wall. MS sees that tablets, particularly the iPad, will eventually eliminate PCs, which will be relegated mainly to servers, and workstations. That translates to less Windows OS being sold, and less revenue for MS.
      As to Nokia, the future is obvious. Symbian is a dead OS. MeeGo is not going anywhere, and they don’t have the time and the immense amount of resources needed to create, and successfully promote, a new OS, that will turn on the majority of users, and motivate developers to churn out apps for it. So Nokia and MS see in W7 a silver lining, that will save their butts from going under in five years.

  • Anonymous

    WP7 looks great, I think this is a great pairing. I will definitely give a Nokia WP7 phone a try.
    I think this platform has a better chance at thriving than Blackberry or Web OS. As a Blackberry owner, to me WP7 seems like a friendlier bussiness OS than Android. iOS is making inroads into the corporate world so I think these two platforms are going to be the go-to phones for business users if RIM cannot manage to keep things together.

    • Qnx

      #1 RIM is going to steal all their market while they make these phones

      #2 nokia/microsoft stand no chance against QNX

  • Anonymous

    IF PHONES WERE PANTS

    Blackberry: Burt orange Corduroy bell bottoms.

    Nokia: Dockers

    iPhone: Levi 501′s

    Android: Black Wrangler jeans

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      Good thing they aren’t.
      Also, good thing you suck at analogies.

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