Nokia on Sunday hint that Microsoft essentially won a bid state of war against Google to supply software to the world ’s large handset Jehovah and that the software system giant agreed to give “ billions ” of dollars for the perquisite .
It also suggested that the first speech sound run Windows Phone software program are likely to come out this class .
Stephen Elop , Nokia ’s new chief operating officer who formerly worked for Microsoft , sought to answer some of the most coarse question that have descend up since the troupe announced last hebdomad that Nokia would protrude using the Windows Mobile operating system . He talk in Barcelona on Sunday , the night before the Mobile World Congress start .
He referred to a slide that Nokia displayed last week that evince marketing and other investments fall from Microsoft to Nokia as part of the deal . While speculation has had that number in the millions or tens of millions , it ’s more than that , he tell . “ In fact the value transfer to Nokia is mensurate in Bs not Ms , ” he say .
He did not clear up further , such as over what time period of time the investment will be made .
The party offered an extra lead about when the first Nokia sound running Windows Phone software will appear . Jo Harlow , senior vice president of marketing for Nokia , said that she is under pressure to bear them during 2011 . She exhibit a photo of a paradigm of what the first earpiece may look like .
Elop sought to dispel rumors that he was essentially send by Microsoft to take the helm at Nokia for make this kind of deal . “ I am not a Trojan horse , ” he tell . The intact management team and display board of Nokia were enlist throughout the determination physical process and they were in concord with the decision to go with Windows Phone , he said .
Nokia was “ pursued ” by both Google and Microsoft , which each view “ significant value ” in a decision by Nokia to apply their software , he said .
Google may have stood to gain more , if it had won a stack to supply Android for Nokia earpiece .
“ If you combine the current mart share of Android with the securities industry share that Nokia could deliver to Android over the next couple of years , it ’s a very big identification number . One could believe the mobile industry thereafter would be some form of duopoly , ” Elop said . The market would be fundamentally split between Android and Apple , he enunciate .
Nokia went with Microsoft because it create a very dissimilar moral force in the mart , he say . “ We have created a three - horse race , ” he said , repeating a gossip that indicates he discounts the impact of Research in Motion ’s Blackberry political program .
Nokia iterate that it plans to cover to support developer who are building apps for Symbian , since there is a very tumid base of existing Symbian phones and more to come . It hopes to execute a unruffled passage between Symbian and Windows Phone .
Also , it plan to contribute some of its ontogenesis of the Ovi store as part of the partnership . Nokia has partnerships with over 100 operators so that end users can pay for purchases in the Ovi memory on their wireless bill . That capableness will put Windows Phone and Nokia ahead of both Apple and Android .
In accession , Elop enounce that there could be multiple stock , such as the Ovi store and Microsoft ’s Marketplace , and that the Ovi memory board would offer all the apps available in the Windows store .
