Microsoft could buy a Nokia mobile unit in the next year

Rumors about a possible sale of the company's business, Nokia mobile handset continue to circulate. At this time the bank Danske Bank said the deal between Microsoft and Nokia can take place in the first half of 2012. According to news agency Bloomberg, in the company Nokia also believe that the sale is not far off. Like it or not, but the market has responded positively to this message - Shares of Nokia rose by 3%. Themselves are rumors about the possibility of Microsoft buying appeared long before the moment the cooperation between it and the Nokia embodied in Nokia 800 and Nokia 710. These devices have become the first "real smartphone to Windows Phone 7", although the market for their output does not react too vigorously. Despite the triumphant from Nokia, none of these models could not achieve the success enjoyed by the iPhone and Android-devices. According to the analytical department of Danske Bank, selling the business of producing mobile phones for Nokia «make sense." However, the official position of the company's management is such that about any sale of the question, stating that it is unfounded rumors that must stop. At the same time is known and the estimated cost of this deal - $ 19 billion. In this case, if the buying and selling still goes through, Microsoft will no longer first producer of operating systems, which also has its own ability to manufacture smartphones. Apple is initially created and the OS and smartphone, and Google in this year bought the mobile division at Motorola. It is worth noting that Nokia has previously engaged in creation itself and smartphones and operating systems for them, but the latest example of the successful development of the device with its own smartphone operating system was running on Nokia N9 MeeGo, from mass production which was abandoned in favor of models running WP7.