Stephen Elop: Nokia will be the first with Windows Phone 8

Nokia is counting on that particular provision, which gives it a partnership with Microsoft, enabling it to become the first company to introduce smartphones that are running Windows Phone 8 this fall. This was stated by CEO Stephen Elop (Steven Elop) at a meeting with analysts held after the company announced a new statement that she had suffered in the second quarter of 2012. At the meeting the head of Nokia had to touch on issues that smartphones with Windows Phone 7 does not update the OS and may meditate on the fact that the company loses smart phone market in China, playing models running Android. When asked about the first smartphone with Windows Phone 8, he gave an evasive answer, noting that companies are located in close cooperation, which have no other manufacturers, as well as the fact that the OS was shown it on the device from Nokia. Also, Mr. Elop did not specify details about the possible existence of a transition existing users to the smartphone Lumia machines with WP8. Instead, he pointed to the fact that devices with WP7 will receive a number of important features of the new OS, and that the company will continue to further reduce the prices for these smartphones. Said Stephen Elop, and the fact that the fragmentation of the number of versions of the OS is not a negative factor, citing the example operating system Android, 60% of the devices which have three different versions, but still sold well. Regarding the problems in the Chinese market, Nokia CEO said that the features of the country prevented the company to deal with the question of the popularity of subsidized phones.