Nokia to Use Microsoft’s OS in their Smartphones

Nokia the world’s leading company in mobile phone market will be using Microsoft‘s OS in their cell phone.Google‘s Android phone has gain tremendous adoption in the last year as its market share has increased from a 6% in 2009 to 24% in 2010. So Nokia is also thinking to launch its new cell phone based on Microsoft’s OS.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have announced that Nokia will be delivering its first Windows Phone 7  in 2012. Windows 7 will be now Nokia’s principal smartphone strategy. And in addition to this Nokia will be adding bing as its default search engine. Nokia Maps will continue and will be using bing search and Nokia’s application store will be controlled  by Microsoft. So this strategy of Nokia will place Android andiOS into first and second place.


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