AT&T in talks with Nokia over Windows Phone

By Tyler Lee on 11/17/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Nokia’s Windows Phone offerings, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, have yet to make their way into the US market, but if it arrives who will be the lucky carrier to offer the device? As it turns out, an AT&T executive, Glenn Lurie, has confirmed that the carrier is currently in talks with Nokia to begin offering their smartphones for 2012. This information was revealed during a Morgan Stanley conference held in Barcelona.

The deal is still being completed, but Glenn Lurie said that the carrier is already finalizing discussions with Nokia. Apart from that piece of information, it was not mentioned as to which models we could expect. Will it be the Nokia Lumia 800 or the Lumia 710, or could we expect even newer models instead?

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has mentioned that US customers will have to wait until 2012 before getting their hands on Nokia’s Windows Phone offerings, but promised 4G LTE and CDMA support, which indicates that Verizon could be another carrier that will be bringing in Nokia Windows Phone devices.

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Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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