The marriage between Nokia and Microsoft could deliver a low cost smartphone

The marriage between Nokia and Microsoft is not yet consummated, but we already know that the bride was offered a dowry for substantial tie the knot. And now we learn that the bride will have Finnish compel some largesse requested by her giant husband.


It is the CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop, who said, to honor the agreement, Nokia will develop a smartphone WP7 for small budgets.




The arms race is raging, and the MWC showed us to our future quad core mobile. But also think big to small (budgets). And now we understand more about how Microsoft has come to think of Finland. Nokia with Symbian, if not number one smartphone, is number one in terms of phones sold with its OS. Of course, ranking by revenue is not the same.

But Nokia has a real expertise in terms of low-cost phones, and could afford to flood the market with an OS as WP7. Microsoft comes a little late with its OS, and break costs may be an effective strategy for this mass.

It is thus a question of a Nokia smartphone in WP7 to $ 200 without subscription.

So for Android smartphones (Gingerbread) approximates the Tablet version (Honeycomb), Microsoft could go under resolutions 800 by 480 pixels in the specification of WP7.

[via iphone.macnn]