Biggest phone producer Nokia has announced that it will be using Microsoft’s new operating system for mobile phones in it’s future smartphones. According to Eric Schidt, Google’s outgoing chief executive, Nokia has made a wrong choice. Android is already most popular smartphone operating system and has big support from Open Handset Alliance, which includes mobile operators, phone manufacturers, software and other companies.
So has Nokia really made a mistake? Only time will tell, but if you look at it, biggest phone manufacturer and biggest software company could be a good partnership. They have access to large resources, technical, human, financial you name it, so potentially they can come up with pretty good products.
Stephen Elop, Nokia’s chief executive, said last week that its use of Windows Phone would ensure there was a mass-market alternative to the operating systems by Apple and Google.
Nokia is only likely to make large volumes of smartphones based on Windows Phone in 2012, while Android, released in late 2008, is enjoying hyper growth.
Mr Schmidt said 300,000 Android-based handsets were getting connected to mobile phone networks every day.
He added there were 170 Android handsets by 27 manufacturers in the market, spread across 69 countries.
So here you go, we now have 3 major operating systems battling on smartphone front:
- iOS by Apple
- Android by Google
- Blackberry OS by RIM
