Ouch! According to Jorma Ollila, chairman of Nokia's board, there will be no Windows 7 phones from the once-mighty phone maker until 2012. At least that's what Ollila told Finnish TV, which Reuters picked up.
Bearing in mind that this year is barely underway, it could be a whole 12 months of ongoing smartphone revolution before Nokia is able to join in with a contemporary product. All it'll be able to offer until then is the creaking Symbian OS, something that arguably has more in common with low-end feature phones than it does with Google Android or Apple iOS. (And if Nokia disagrees with this assessment, why is it switching to Windows Phone 7? Don't they think customers might figure that out?)

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