14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia might be on its way to announce the adoption of a new mobile operating system to power its devices, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest, and the long rumored Nokia N9 smartphone might be the first handset to sport that mobile platform, it seems.
Some of the latest reports on the Internet pointed at Nokia's plans to come to the market with devices that might run under Google's Android platform, or under Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system.
Apparently, these rumors converged towards the possible adoption of Windows Phone 7 as the mobile OS to power new Nokia smartphones, and the Finnish giant is expected to make a formal announcement on this as soon as tomorrow, it seems.
Moreover, these rumors were fueled by reports regarding the fact that Nokia might have canceled its first MeeGo-based device the Nokia N9, as it was aiming at moving towards another mobile operating system, beside Symbian and the Maemo-Moblin offspring.
The N9 made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and was expected to become official at MWC 2011 with MeeGo on board, but it might have got killed off
According to recent article on PhoneReport, the device was not scrapped, but Nokia considered it better fit for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform.
Apparently, the two companies already tested Windows Phone 7 on the Nokia N9, and things are promising, though no final decision on whether the handset would indeed be released with Windows Phone 7 on board or not was taken for the time being.
The news site also notes that Nokia and Microsoft might be determined to join forces in an attempt to slow Android's ascension down, or even leave the platform behind.
However, since nothing is final yet, they suggest that Nokia might not make a formal announcement tomorrow during Nokia's Capital Markets Day, but at a later date, either at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona or a few weeks after it.
We should note that rumors on the possible adoption of Android or Windows Phone 7 on Nokia smartphones emerged previously too, but the Finnish handset vendor denied them all.