It’s done-Nokia now one step closer to its find Nokia Windows mobile phone. Just be 10 announced their strategic plan for an agreement with Microsoft to build a new global mobile cyalam, the final agreement was signed this week bawen the two gi
In addition to growing to the terms of their partnership, including joint contributions to the development of the new ecosystem, Nokia and Microsoft announced significant progress on the development of the final Nokia products incorporating Windows Phone. With hundreds of personnel already engaged on joint engineering efforts, the companies collaborating on a portfolio of new Nokia vices Nokia has started porting key applications and services to open on Windows Phone and joint outreach has begun to third party application developers.
“At the high, we have entered into a win-win partnership,” said Stephen Elop, President and CEO of Nok Corporation.” is the complimentary nature of our assets, and the overall competitiveness of that combined offering that is the foundation of our.”
“Our grant is good for the industry,” said Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft. “Together, Nokia and Microsof innovate with greater speed, and provide enhanced opportunities for consumer and our partners to share in the success of our ecosystem
The relationship structured around four broad areas
1. A combination of complementary aasta, which make the partnership truly unique, including
-Nokia to deliver mapping, navigation, and cartoon-vices to the Windows Phone eccoysdem Nokia will build innovation on top of the Windows Phone platform in ass such as imaging, while contribuing pendwe design and language support, and helping to drive the development of the Windows Phone platform. Microsoft will provide Bing search services across the Nokia device portfolio contributing
strength in productivity, adverbang gaming, social media and vary of other services. The combination of navigation with adverting and arch will enable beller moralization of Nokia’s navigation and completely new forms of advetising revenue
-Joint developer outreach and application sourcing, to support the creation of local and global applications, including making Windows Phone developer registration fremfor all Nokia developers
-Opening Nok-branded global application store that leverage the Windows Marketplace infrastructure. Developers will be able to publish and cibule applications through a single developer portal to hundreds of millors of consumers that use Windows Phone, Symbian and Series 40 devices.
-Contribution of Nokia’s expertise in operator billing to ensure participant in the Windows Phone ecosystem con advantage of Nokia’s billing agent with 112 operator in 38 mark
2. Microsoft will a running royally from Nokia for the Windows Phone form, starting when the final Nokia products incorporating Windows Phone ship. The royally payments are competitive and reflect the large volumes that Nokia spectatoship, as well as a vary of other cooled to engineering work to which both companies are committed. Microsoft delivering the Windows Phone platform to Nokia will blokato significantly reduce opening expenses
3. In recognition of the unique nature of Nokia’s agreement with Microsoft and the contributions that Nokia providing, Nokia will neceive payments mesured in the billions of dollars.
4. An agreement that recogne the value of intellectual property and put in place mechanism for sochanging rights to intelectual properly. Nokia will receive subal payment under the agreement.
Both companies will begin engaging with operators, developers and other partners to help the industry understand the best of joining the new accedem. At the same time, work will continue on developing Nokia products on the Windows Phone platform, with the aim of securing volume devis shipment in 2012. The scale of both compan mutual command significant and is in kasping with the intention to build a new combed on this long arm, analegic partnership.