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Nokia Windows Phone handset is earmarked for November release
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia could launch its first Windows phone 7.5 Mango handset in November, according to a leaked release schedule.
Italian carrier TIM is showing a November release for the device, said a report on Knowyourmobile. The web site added that this likely will be a Europe-wide release for the handset.
Apparently, several Microsoft executives are down for the manufacturer's Nokia World event next week, and we are expecting the announcement of a Windows phone then.
The latest Nokia leak is one of many. Earlier this month, Nokia had another one of its upcoming Windows Phone handsets called the Sun leaked on the internet.
We had previously seen a leak of the firm's Sea Ray phone, which is believed to be its first Windows Phone handset. The Nokia Sun is coming in November from Orange in France, previous reports have said, so it could be the handset mentioned in the latest leak.
The Nokia Sun will have a 3.7in AMOLED screen and a 1.4GHz processor. Other specifications we can gather include an 8MP camera, 16GB of internal storage and a uni-body design. Interestingly it apparently has a microSIM slot.
The Sea Ray is likely to be the flagship device from Nokia and the Sun will be a smaller and probably more budget friendly version. Check back next week for The INQUIRER's coverage of Nokia World on 26 and 27 October. µ
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Nokia probably did plenty of hardware/software testing, and any phone release had to be timed after Mango was released.
Nokia also had to introduce several Symbian Belle phones.
That said, it will be interesting to find out who needs who more in the Nokia-Microsoft partnership.
Does Microsoft need Nokia more for boosting its crappy market share and establish a viable *third ecosystem*?
Or does Nokia, which already has sales dwindling, need Microsoft more to boost holiday sales this year?
Only time will tell.
BTW, many of the Nokia fanboys have already defected to Apple iOS or Android. Those who didn't defect continued to support Symbian, bought a Meego-powered N9 and vowed to never purchase a Nokia phone with Windows in it.
Microsoft will be in for a rude awakening if it thinks Nokia will help boost WP7's market share.
FINALLY - we'll have one more Micr0$uck$ LoseDoze Operating System (O/S) based phone that will make life heaven-like. I'll be able to install the internet, browse the web, point and click, copy and paste, and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if downright IMPOSSIBLE to do with any other phone.
Isn't the Nokia WP supposed to have something like +500 additional features compared to your standard WP 7.5 phones? As long as they make it to the Christmas sales, I don't see them being late. Btw, the HTC phones are just pieces of plastic, very poor design and build quality.
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I understand that Nokia is a huge company and it takes a while to move from one OS to another but it just sounds crazy that it has taken that this long to get to a product.
Seriously, how hard can it be? HTC was able to bring Windows Phone to market much quicker than Nokia. Poor show.
Not to mention that I still believe it was the wrong strategy anyway. It is my believe that Nokia will have to go to Android in the end anyway as Windows Phone will sell poorly.
By the way, does anyone see a problem with the sentence: "The Nokia Sun is coming in November from Orange in France"? Interesting choice of product/company name.