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Nokia hints we'll see first Windows Phone 7 device this year |
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Wednesday, 09 February 2011 |
Nokia may still sticking to the official line that it's going to begin shipping Windows Phone 7 units in "important quantity" in 2012, but it surely just dropped a giant hint at its Cellular World Congress press conference that we could be seeing the primary device even sooner -- like this year. That word came from Nokia's Jo Harlow, who said that her boss would be "a lot happier" if the timing of the preliminary launch was in 2011. What's more, Nokia's additionally given us a glimpse of another barely completely different Home Windows Phone 7 idea system along with confirming the leaked one we got our fingers on a couple of days in the past, and it is shed but extra mild on the behind the scenes intrigue that led as much as the swap to Windows Phone 7.
Based on CEO Stephen Elop, the "closing determination" to go along with Home Windows Cellphone "simply happened on Thursday night of last week." Elop then later then expanded -- in response to a query shouted from the audience about whether or not he was a malicious program -- that the "whole administration group" was involved within the process, and that "in fact the board of administrators of Nokia are the only ones that may make this important of a call about Nokia," which they made on Thursday night.
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