Reported by Cellular News, and quoted us, Harlow confirmed that the reason for launching new handsets at regular intervals every 8 to 12 weeks is to maintain publicity and momentum for the WP7 platform, which received less attention from handset OEMs this year.
"We will launch a new mobile phone on a regular basis, perhaps every few months, every three months, as it was," said Vice President of Start Device Nokia, Jo Harlow.
Note, although the first WP7 phones using Qualcomm chipsets such as Microsoft, Nokia reportedly will switch to using chipsets from other providers. Presumably, this decision because Nokia and Qualcommm bersengket CDMA patent related issues.
He also confirmed that Nokia is currently actively looking for a gap in the market and develop a CDMA-based smartphone to consumers in the United States (U.S.).
"So, the obvious first step we use Qualcomm. We are now in talks with Microsoft to use another chipset," he said.
But Nokia evasive about this. Harlow just mention that having more than one supplier of chipset is imperative to allow the product target performance level and a series of different reasons.
Meanwhile, Huawei Come Interested Windows Phone,.
Victor Xu, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei said the company today continues to follow the market development of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Admittedly, Huawei also had discussions with Microsoft and expect to release a WP7-based handsets in 2012.
Following the competitors Huawei, ZTE, with a glance at the Windows Phone handset business. China-based company is interested in releasing a phone with the operating system (OS) from Microsoft are.
IT Pro Portal Launched on Monday (30/05/2011), ZTE expressed interest in WP7 after Microsoft revealed details of its Mango update last week.
The entry of ZTE in the WP7 marketplace, noted analysts have made the availability of cheaper WP7 smartphone. With Huawei are now following in his footsteps, is expected to open up WP7 smartphone market more broadly.
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