Stephen Elop: Nokia Windows Phone 8 launching ‘soon’.
Reuters reports that Stephen Elop said Windows Phone 8 from Nokia will be launched soon.
This should quell some rumours and comments that suggest Nokia will not be announcing any new Lumia WP8s this year. Similar rumours cropped up last year after doubts on whether Nokia could release a WP7.5 device so soon (when they generally took 18 months to get anything out).
However, for those who still have doubts, they are warranted in their concern due to past Nokia mistakes:
- Soon. This has no actual time frame and differs from person to person. To Nokia, soon may be 6 months or more. They’ve been a lot more cautious in using that word, particularly for the disappointment it ensues.
- Launching this year could still not mean any phones are available this year. We are in mid August. We have, September, October, November, and December left. Should we see at the earliest, a September launch, it’s not very un Nokia like not to exceed 6 months until they have the phone on the shelves.
Where we can have some hope is that Nokia repeats or betters the launch seen with the Nokia Lumia 800. I.E. Have it shipping on the day of launch, possibly on shop markets in weeks. Since Nokia most likely has been working on WP8 concurrently with WP7, they should also have had much more time to iron out any major bugs.
Source: Reuters
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” it’s not very un Nokia like not to exceed 6 months until they have the phone on the shelves.”
Very true.
It’s not impossible though they are no more in a position to do so.
Still it’s a very good news. Hope we will see a Windows Phone 8 running Nokia ‘soon’. Nokia need to come with smart pricing and solid specs as the rumor says samsung is coming with something big(WP8).
‘Soon’…I see what you did there.
What he really said was ‘near term’
In before usual anti Elop diatribes.
Still, I’ll beleive it when I see it. It needs to be out early to mid Q4.
Why are you always expecting the worst and being negative
I cant see any anti Elop comments here…
Ofcourse the devices are out well before Christmas as long as WP is ready to ship. Another matter is, what Nokia specific features are on board in the first wave and what are updated later.
The good news is that Nokia N9 at last is coming to India. Something must be in sell to cover W8 expenses and this is good for India people.
any source link to support your statement ??
??? Really?
That would be a big new – a really interesting move but the price has already been paid for that stubbornness…
I call BS, provide some REAL PROOF of this or go back under your bridge.
@Pashara Pershervara
So you’re full of shit about the N9 coming to India.
Your silence indicates that…
Even if that was real, I wonder how is receiving a one year old phone with outdated specs good news?!…
Because the user experience (UX) is one of a kind and truly unique with elements that every mobile OS (and tablet – W8) could make use of to improve their own products and UI/UX.
damn this better be true, will be the first one to buy it
Any proof??? I am very close to getting an N9 from Singapore. If this is true, then i might hold it til launch.
No matter windows phone os is more user friendly,fluid,fast but microsoft together nokia should work on price or cost of mobile.At least it should come in price of nokia 500 and below it..
- Launching this year with availability this year, but only on few markets and product that isn’t finished and/or polished.
it pains me to agree with that possibility,
It would be nice to hear a practical comment, how probable it is that WP8 fully working and optimized this Fall. Can they import UI code 1on1 from WP7 while the underlying base is completely different etc.
maybe
/s
no purebiew, you cant dream of getting my money
can you say that a few more times, please?
just buy an 808 – then you will have pureview.
simples
What if he doesn’t want the compromise? I love the camera as well but don’t want to be stuck with the OS that Nokia abandoned.
Not sure he would buy a WP phone if it did have pv. But happy to be corrected by ggg (or is it bbb).
@ Pashara Pershervara: Can mention source regarding your claim if n9 in india. Do you know by when ll it launch officially.
My speculation:
WP8-Launch will take place in 3 weeks.
WP8-Sale will start in Oct.
WP8-PureView will come @MWC 2013.
I don’t see the point in launching at the same time as the iPhone… iPhone 5 will totally steal the show from Sept to Dec as it seems to bring a lot of changes compared to the previous launch (iPhone 4S). WP8′s only slim chance was beginning of this year (2012) but they passed it. Microsoft and Nokia should get ready to get smoked by iPhone.
Note: I am not a fan of either iPhone or WP but since Microsoft/Nokia decided to play on Apple’s grounds they should know the rules of the game.
If a product is ready, you have to launch it and not waiting for sunshine. But you can’t launch a product if it is not ready.
The mistake is not in launching it but in strategizing/planning it. WP wants to fight iOS but it is at least 2 generations behind and the gap is increasing.
Solution: you either choose to not fight on Apple grounds (like Android did) or you deliver products as innovative/trendy/desirable as Apple’s. These are at least 3 adjectives that could never be applied to Microsoft in their entire history.
have u seen the surface tablets and touch covers?
If the Surface was ready they would had everybody playing with them at the announcement. The surface is soo not ready. Heck did they even demo the touch covers???
I don’t want to discuss which OS is ahead or behind.
Apple launches usually every year something during summer. So you have always to compete with that.
I bet the timeframe for the launch of WP( (e.g. H2/2012) was planned maybe two years ago. How should they know when exacly Apple plans to launch something?
This year Appple is late again.
iPhone = Jan 2007 (Start)
iPhone3G = July 2008 (Summer)
iPhone3GS = June 2009 (Summer)
iPhone4 = June 2010 (Summer)
iPhone 4S = Oct 2011 => against ICS-Launch?
iPhone 5 = Sept 2012? => against WP-launch?
To me it looks like Apple changed their launch dates to compete with the others.
Apple bothered by Windows Phone 8 launch??
That’s a good one.
if the rumours are true about the next iphone, then this is a perfect time for nokia to release new wp8 devices and catch some tired iphone users not willing to buy another iphone4 look-a-like.
and who says nokia must play to apple’s rules or game?
it’s time for a change.
that is the primary reason, why MS delayed vacations among WP devs
good for them. I think though it was also just to make sure WP8 is ready as early as possible and with multiple handsets out by the holiday season.
If iPhone is going to be in the spotlight for the timeframe you state, then why should ANY oem (LG, Motorola, etc., whether Android or WP) release a device during this time?
Manufacturers have to sell devices; iPhone will ALWAYS outsell every other single device on the market, at any time, as they continue to prove year after year, quarter after quarter; so Nokia and WP releasing a device now, or in Q1 2013, isn’t going to change anything – they will sell devices, but not volume that the iPhone does.
What is Elop smiling on in the picture above?
Smiling at how he demolished Nokia? Or coz he is listening Balmer’s congratulation message for demolishing Nokia?
Everyone smiles in the presence of Ali.
Hahah I was about to say, is this really the only picture of elop we have left
“at least we’ll have fun and go down trying”
If it makes you feel better, that pic is from MWC, the pic of Elop in the actual article shows him how you would seem to like it more.
The first Windows Phone 8 based second generation Nokia Lumia devices will be available in Q4 very soon after they launch in september.
One more news is that there’s something big coming for Symbian, but I am not fully sure.
i don’t think apple iphone 5 will steal the thunder and u will see why…
too bad for apple crowd
Something big coming for Symbian? I thought the 808 was the last device?
i highly doubt about something big coming for symbian especially considering fact that how nokia scares devs away from the platform.
Elop’s strategy has always been to test new technology and new features on other platforms(Meego,symbian) as a beta test and then introduce it on windows phone so the first ever blandable display Nokia phone could be symbian based LOL
he means to say Belle FP2 .. but that is not something very big right ?
Does Nokia scare them away, or the crappiness of the platform scare them away?
Both. Why would devs trust a company that changes it’s strategy more often than the CEO changes his underpants?
“relatively near term” … elop
thats worse than soon.
if its not widely available by late september, then kiss the holiday quarter goodbye
ms.nokia, what are you talking about?
The first holiday isn’t until November, and Christmas is in December! There is plenty of time.
i was talking about Q4 sales
Just announced, Windows Phone press event with Nokia and Microsoft on Sept. 5
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3244849/nokia-microsoft-windows-8-press-event-september-5th
P.S. in New York at 9:30am.
What matters more is what they will launch, not when. If they will simply launch a Lumia that is the same as 900, but has slightly better specs then I don’t see any reason for the sales to grow a lot. Something really great needs to come out..
jolla will steal the show
+1
Lololol!
It would be refreshing to have yet another option on the table as far as OS’s go. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt a Jolla device will be close to being ready by the end of the year.
Yup, I too would not be surprised if its not in the shops before Q1 2013 at the earliest… if at all, its not as easy as some people seem to think.
I wouldnt be overly pessimistic. Benefon was able to release whole range and at that time the industry was less developed ie. they had to do a lot more themselves.
Fusion Garage got second (failed) chance to release a tablet and they had also a smartphone
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/16/xiaomi-phone-2-quad-core/
Somewhere it was said that they have approx 250 people working for them.
That picture proves that Ali is a Windows Phone paid poster.
+111111111111111
lol. at least you have a great sense of humor!
shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone, it’s a conspiracy.
But who’s the other guy with those odd white ears? His ears must have frozen somewhere in the North.
like they are said ”just keep your eyes open for the next month”
I thought the main delays to Nokia getting phones on shelves were sometimes software related, and that is something they don’t have to worry about developing now, so hopefully should speed things up.
I think by end of November at the latest new WP8 Nokia phones should be in shops.
A lot of people may not like this but i kinda think that Elop despite all the bad moves he took is a couple of years ahead of his thinking ,he knows what he’s doing hopefully , he could bring the company back on it’s feet .
+1
Elop does know how to move and plan. Soon, we’ll all be seeeing ELOP bring MS back on it’s feet.
let’s just hope they deliver some high-end devices in september rather then play catch-up & what scares me the most is the other companies especially samsung that might deliver some bulked up phones and steal the show from nokia once again , even in the windows phone territory which is nokia’s last chance at proving itself .