In Nokia’s official announcement made yesterday we can notice the following phrase “Nokia is not adopting Microsoft’s current Windows Phone 7 platform.” This means we wouldn’t see any Nokia device running Microsoft’s software until October.
Stephen Elop said though Windows phone 7 is a great software platform but they wouldn’t use it and they would have been waiting until the next version of Windows Phone 7 will be launched on October, called Mango. May be there won’t be many differences and the platforms will be almost the same, but probably Nokia wants to prove their cooperation with Microsoft will be different from the others, or may be Microsoft will include some special features in Mango for Nokia’s smartphones.
Microsoft also announced that most likely the Mango will be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 with Windows Phone 8 following at the end of 2012. The new version of the WP7 will be enhanced with a number of new features including HTML5 support.
Here is another interesting fact: Nokia is adopting Windows Phone 7 – phrase hasn’t been used never by the Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, and firstly we heard it last week. Can we assume though Elop is a former Microsoft executive, but when he headed Nokia from last September he has been gross with Microsoft and made them clear Nokia wouldn’t be one of those companies that will try “to earn some money” switching to Microsoft, but there are two giants who will work together to bring more useful features to users and both will benefit from the cooperation simultaneously.
