Nokia launches Windows smartphone

How the mighty have fallen.

Gorgeous phone! Won't Nokia come to Japan? It's a shame.

"iOS5", "Ice Cream Sandwich", and "WP7 Mango" all are great OS. The fierce competition in the mobile phone market makes each OS really advanced at amazing rate. This competition is very good. If one OS dominated the whole market, user-experiences might be deteriorated, just like that the domination of Windows XP ruined the Vista. The other day, iPhone4S could not impress audience well. It is partly because Apple have over-confidence in their iPhone and its ecosystem, I think. But formidable competitors such as Google, MS, Samsung and Nokia will encourage Apple.

I can't make up one's mind for my next phone. But I'm certain regardless of my choice, I will be satisfied.

All competition is good let the best smartphone win!

Ummm... that train left the station quite a while ago. Guess they were waiting for the iPhone 5 to come out (which I've heard is one reason Apple waited, though that's probably just rumour) to rip it off in the final stages, as most other smartphones have done (with iPhone).

I'm also curious if it will come with all the inherent flaws that usually accompany Windows software.

mikro$oft seems incapable of making money with innovation. ironically, their cash-cow is android (because of patents, every android device sold in this world pays about 5-bucks to mikro$oft). and nokia, if they try to innovate, they'll probably end up copying some old iphone model without realizing what they've done, and violate apple's patents and get into trouble and complain how poor they are.

We highly welcome your arrival. Competition is really really good for the consumers and let the best smartphone win!

Later, Nokia must apply your technology used in candy-bar phone to the smartphone... dual SIM which can both run at the same time and can be toggled back and forth. Very popular feature in Asia and africa this dual-SIM is.

Nokia must be lucky that there is no more Jobs who would had stopped the release of this phone maybe due to Jurassic old Windows patent infringement since 1984, ...etc. etc. etc....blah-blah-blah-blah

Let all products, good or a little bad, expensive or cheap, FLOAT IN THE MARKET and let the consumers decide

mikro$oft seems incapable of making money with innovation.

You know, that's funny. Remember when Android SDK was first given peeks? It was a Blackberry clone --as soon as the first iphone came out in Jan 2007, GOOG went back to work and released in Nov 2007 --you know what, an iphone knockoff. WOW, that's innovation --knockoff artists.

Moreover, do you think those MFGS would pay the licensing if they thought Android didn't infringe? That little mole by the name of Schmidt, he's the IP thief. Don't let them fool you.

@m5c32: agreed. nobody's perfect, it's all mostly dog-eat-dog, thieves stealing from thieves out there. apple included, as i see it. we all choose what we believe to be the "least evil" according to each one's ethics etc.

You would think they would choose and better background to show. Not a "Blue screen" BSOD.

to be rolled out starting next month on selected markets.

Shouldn't the correct way to say this be, "to be rolled out starting next month in selected markets."

I love how everyone loves to bash Microsoft and claim Apple is the pinnacle of ethics & fair play.

I have played with the AU Windows phone and it is certainly a slick OS. Smooth and lag free, and not stuck with a fixed icons that IOS gives you. If battery life is better than Android i would certainly consider this Nokia for my next phone

I had a Windows (Windows Mobile 6.x) phone for 20 months. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. It was unstable, things changed or mysteriously stopped working, and it never integrated that well with Windows on my laptop.

For the last couple of years, my entire work-related life has run on Gmail and Google's calendar. Getting an Android phone was a no-brainer, and it's worked out really well.

For those scoring at home: Windows 0, Android 1. I'm pretty much done with Microsoft.

Sometimes it's not the OS but the platform that is running the OS that causes the issues. There are many droid platforms out there that just blow, and some that are excellent. Same for windows phone (and going back to pocket pc devices).

one must admit that not all mikro$oft is crappy and appel always innovative. hyper-greedy appel just got patented the "slide to unlock" feature, but it was already in use 2 years before it ever appeared on any appel device. you can check it out at:

http://www.androidcentral.com/apple-granted-patent-slide-unlock-even-though-it-existed-2-years-they-invented-it

sad thing is nokia also released the evolutionary dead end product - the N9 which is running on their recently developed but soon to be phased out meego OS. It is actually a very nice product, slick and very well designed. Such a shame they had to join up with MS just as they were onto something good to replace symbian. I really like the look of the N9 - mottainai. nokia mottainai.