Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Windows Phone 7 on Nokia? Not likely

Ever since former Microsoft business division head Stephen Elop became Nokia's CEO, we have seen a steady flow of rumors and speculation surrounding the possibility of the Finnish phone giant producing a handset with Microsoft's new mobile operating system. Such rumors got a big boost this week when legendary Nokia stalker Eldar Murtazin claimed that the two companies are engaged in ongoing discussions about hardware collaboration.

Murtazin, a Russian blogger who writes for the site Mobile Review, has a generally excellent track record on Nokia leaks and is often the first to reveal new handsets produced by the company. Although the whimsical notion of a Nokia Windows phone is a compelling thought experiment, such a product is highly unlikely to materialize. If Nokia is teaming up with Microsoft on hardware, we doubt that it's a smartphone—it's more likely to be something a lot more mundane, like a possible successor to Nokia's Windows-based Booklet 3G netbook.

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