14 DAY TRIAL // Later during the ongoing year, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will bring to the market its first handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, and it seems that they should be impressive devices.
Nothing was officially announced on the matter, but people familiar with Nokia's roadmap let slip some info on this, and unveiled that the vendor is gearing up for the release of highly impressive devices.
Dave Trevaskus, senior training consultant for Nokia, mentioned on Twitter that Nokia's Windows Phone Mango handsets will indeed appeal a lot to customers.
“I might tease them with some Nokia WP Mango goodness!! This device will blow your socks off!!,” he noted on the microblogging site.
Apparently, Nokia is also working with the next flavor of Symbian, and new devices running under it might not be too far away either.
However, the Windows Phone handsets are those who need to impress, since the company is moving to this mobile operating system with its entire smartphone production.
Back in February, the leading mobile phone maker announced that it would leave Symbian aside, and that Windows Phone will become the primary platform for its future smartphones.
The company has lost a lot of market share lately, but the Windows Phone devices are expected to help it regain its foothold.
However, to do so they would need to appeal a lot to end-users, something that the aforementioned tweet suggests that will indeed happen.
This year, Nokia is expected to launch at least one Windows Phone handset, but mass production will start only next year. This means that Nokia will continue to lose market share until it starts shipping Windows Phone devices in volumes in 2012.
The company won't launch only flagship Windows Phone smartphones, but also cheaper handsets, which should make the mobile operating system available for a wide range of users.
No specific info on what the company's Windows Phones will be all about has emerged until now, but it should not be too long before more on the matter is unveiled, so stay tuned.