Feb 12, 2011 08:54 GMT  ·  By

On Friday, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced officially a partnership aimed at putting the Windows Phone OS on Nokia devices, and the first possible fruits of this agreement allegedly emerged in a series of leaked photos. In all fairness, these are not final products, but merely conceptual devices, it seems, though similar handsets might actually arrive on shelves during the ongoing year or the next.

However, since these are only concept phones, nothing is certain on how the retail hardware would look like, and only an official announcement would be able to shed some light on the matter.

Although the two companies announced the upcoming availability of Nokia handsets powered by Windows Phone, a specific date for when they might be released was not unveiled.

While info on the Nokia Windows Phone smartphones lacks as well, Engadget says that these images would indeed be real, and that they show what the two companies have been working on until now.

These concept devices would put together elements inherited from Nokia's latest Symbian^3 handsets (N8, C7), as well as design features specific to Windows Phone 7, such as the three physical buttons.

As stated above, since nothing is official or confirmed on the matter, we should wait for a formal announcement to be made before drawing conclusions on how would Nokia Windows Phone devices look like.

In the meantime, we should note that, although Nokia announced that it planned on transitioning its Symbian phones to Windows Phone, older handsets wouldn't be upgraded to the new platform.

Moreover, during the next few years, we should see a range of new Symbian smartphones launched on shelves as well, along with Windows Phone handsets from Nokia.

The Finnish giant will work on both platforms, but will focus mainly on Windows Phone, and will eventually kill Symbian while launching Windows Phone devices at various price points.

What remains to be seen is how fast Nokia and Microsoft would manage to bring the first Nokia Windows Phone handsets on the market, so keep an eye on this area for more info on the matter.

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Alleged photos of Nokia Windows Phone devices emerge
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