Nokia has decided to start using Windows Phone instead of Symbian — I guess you already know about this. But this is not going to be the only significant change in the upcoming novelties. We have heard that the chips will also be changed — the typical Qualcomm processors will be replaced with ST-Ericsson.
This news is rather important for Microsoft. The thing is that they used to work directly with Qualcomm for all of the smartphones based on WP7. This includes even the latest smartphones from HTC.
Forbes states:
“Even after the Microsoft deal ST-Ericsson continues to have “very close relations” with Nokia, said Bozotti, and will be “an important supplier” for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 phones. (The first/current wave of Windows Phone devices is called Windows Phone 7 but the next generation of Windows Phones will be known as Windows Phone 8.)”
Nokia has plans to introduce not a couple, but 12 smartphones based on the Windows Phone OS in 2012. We guess some of them will be based on Windows Phone 7.5.
The first chip that will be used for the Nokia’s WP devices is going to be U8500, which is a dual-core chipset, which is also present on such devices as the Samsung Infuse 4G and the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G.
