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Nokia strides confidently down the Windows Phone path

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The summary is simple, Nokia announced their first two Windows Phones (the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710) at the London ExCeL centre this morning. The detail, strategy, and finer points will come out once I leave the bubble, but for now I want to make one point. From an announcement on Feb 11th, through the finalising of  the contract in April, to shipping the device out the factory door yesterday is an insanely fast schedule. Nokia and Stephen Elop wanted to show they could deliver to schedule, and they have clearly done that. You can look at the standard components from

The smooth Mango delivery shows how far Windows Phone has come

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And quietly, in the corner, Microsoft continues a successful roll-out of Windows Mango, now available to roughly half of the Windows Phone smartphones (and those of you who know you can “cut the cord“). It may be a smaller footprint of devices, but they still have to navigate a number of different models, manufacturers, and network requests. Samsung Focus aside, Microsoft has learnt from the NoDo update at the start of the year, and given that, what else do you think they might have learned. With Palm’s WebOS effectively off the table, Research in Motion in decline, and Symbian loosing

Samsung to pay Microsoft for Android while Microsoft pay Nokia for Windows Phone

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Back in February, a huge number of people wondered why Nokia went with Windows Phone 7 and not Android. Here’s another reason to add to the rather obvious business cases that were pointed out after Feb 11, and it’s all to do with Samsung. Today, Samsung announced they would be paying Microsoft a per-device royalty on all their Android devices. And the per-device Android fee handed to Microsoft is more than the per-device cost of licencing Windows Phone 7. There’s a potential fiduciary argument that Windows Phone is now cheaper than Android. Starter for ten, how much are Nokia paying per

Hey, that’s from Microsoft!

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Something that could well play in Microsoft’s favour over the next twelve months as Windows 8 permeates the blogs, Windows Phone 7 gets the Nokia Nitro boost, and more people start paying attention to everything coming out of Redmond… with the Metro design langauge across all their gadgets, toys and computers, it’s going to be possible to pick up a device with no external markings and be confident in saying “This is Microsoft.”

Join the American Smartphone dots…

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1. Nokia will no longer sell the lower-end S40 or any Symbian device in North America. It’s Windows Phone all the way (and through networks, not their own retail stores). 2. There’s mention of a Windows Phone Tango from OEM Compal, which could be targeted at handsets in the lower end of the market. 3. Everyone is assuming that Nokia will use Compal to make their first Windows Phone handsets. Humans, spotting patterns when there are none…