14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is hard at work with the development of its first smartphones that would run under Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform, and some more info on the handsets that would first come to the market started to emerge. Long story short, just as previously reported, Nokia is said to be working on a number of four Windows Phone devices at the moment, with plans to bring the first of them on shelves sometime during fall 2011.
We were already able to confirm that Nokia was working on Windows Phone prototypes, but the company was mum on specific details on these devices.
However, the company is expected to bring to shelves Windows Phone devices that are based on existing Symbian prototype hardware, somehow similar with the newly released Nokia X7, or with the N8, as well as some phones built on the WP Chassis 2 from Microsoft.
The Nokia X7 variant, reportedly called W7, should include a WVGA display and the Qualcomm QSD8250 chipset, along with an 8-megapixel photo snapper with auto focus and flash.
This might be the very first Windows Phone device that Nokia would bring to shelves later this year, though it remains to be seen whether they would indeed manage to have it ready in due time.
The aforementioned N8-based model is expected to include the same 12-megapixel camera on the back, along with a dual-core Qualcomm CPU and Adreno 320 GPU, and an outer casing that would resemble relatively with the Nokia N8.
According to Mobile-review, this handset might become available on shelves sometime during the first quarter of the next year, or in the second one.
Other purported Windows Phone smartphones at Nokia would include a QWERTY handset with touchscreen display, just as the new Nokia E6 looks like, aimed mainly at business users.
Nokia is also expected to launch a cheap entry-level Windows Phone handset, featuring similar design as the aforementioned W7, but packing cheaper hardware, along with an EDOF full-focus camera. It should be released in early 2012.
But there's more to it. Apparently, Nokia plans on pushing to the market a number of no less than 12 Windows Phones next year, including a new flagship, which should come with the second wave of devices, and a new high-quality camera smartphone.