Nokia and Microsoft have lately announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to partner and build devices based on Microsoft Windows 7 Phone operating system. Nokia and Microsoft had first announced their partnership on 11 February. A press release says that hundreds of personnel from both companies working together to develop a portfolio of new Nokia devices to be ready for volume shipments in 2012. The pressure is high to develop and launch the first product in 2011 itself. This is what Kai Oistamo, Executive Vise President and Chief Development Officer, Nokia and Andy Lees, President, Mobile Communications Business, Microsoft jointly published on Microsoft's developers blog Technet: Developers Angry Birds maker, Rovio, much of the day SuperSite, Groupon ; live, active social app, above, and the UK mega-retailer, Sainsbury's, are all committed to the Windows phone platform.
Microsoft and Nokia Thursday formalized its cooperation with a final agreement to develop Windows 7 Phone-based Nokia devices.
On the other hand, all Nokia products Bing Microsoft's search engine.
The two companies also said they have made significant progress in the development of such phones.
Nokia will have its own application store that will make applications for Windows Phone, Symbian and Season 40 devices.2.
At the highest level, we have entered into a win-win partnership, said Stephen Elop, president and CEO of Nokia, in a statement.
Microsoft will receive a royalty for all Nokia devices that ship with Windows 7 Phone platform.3.
It is the complementary nature of our assets, and the overall competitiveness as a combined offer, which is the foundation of our relationship.
Nokia will receive payments from Microsoft in terms of billions of dollars for his contribution to the agreement.
Microsoft also confirmed that Nokia will receive payments, measured in billions of dollars.
A specific amount was not mentioned.
Our agreement is good for the industry, said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft.
The announcement was made after that Nokia has announced its latest quarter.
Together, Nokia and Microsoft innovate with greater speed, and provides better opportunities for consumers and our partners to share the success of our ecosystems.
Nokia announced that market share has fallen to 26 percent, down from 31 percent in the same fourth last year.
Specifically, Nokia will provide mapping, navigation and other location-based services for Windows phone, while Microsoft will give Bing search services across the Nokia platform.
They have also sent 18 percent fewer phones than the previous quarter.
There will be public outreach to developers, and Microsoft will release Windows phone developer registration fee for the Nokia developers.
The two companies will also open a new Nokia-branded global App Store that uses Windows Marketplace infrastructure, they said.
Developers can publish and distribute through a single portal, now Windows Phone, Symbian and Series 40 users.
Both companies have mdae significant progress on the development of the first Nokia products include Windows phone, they said in a release.
There are hundreds of personnel already engaged in joint development [for] a portfolio of new Nokia devices.
Nokia has started porting key apps and services for Windows phone platform, and outreach to third-party app developers have started.
In the coming years we will aggressively work to make Nokia products use Windows phone to new geographies, new price points and share new experiences for customers around the world to enjoy, wrote Nokia's Kai Oistamo and Microsoft's Andy Lees in a blog mail .
Since the agreement was announced earlier this year, the number of Windows apps Phone sent on a daily basis has almost doubled, said Oistamo and Lees.
Developers Angry Birds maker, Rovio, much of the day SuperSite, Groupon; hot social app, above, and the UK mega-retailer, Sainsbury's, are all committed to the Windows phone platform, they wrote.
The duo promises an increased focus on mobile business and productivity scenarios based on Microsoft's cloud services, new features of Symbian, and new opportunities for Windows phone devices.
Nokia-Microsoft deal was the talk of the Mobile World Parliament conference in February, with big names like Intel and Google express their disappointment.
Last month, IDC says that Android is poised to become the number one mobile operating system in 2011, while Nokia-Microsoft deal could run Windows phone to the number two position in 2015.
For now, however, the Windows phone probably only capture about 5.5 percent of the market this year, according to IDC.
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