Smartphone news: Nokia adopting Windows and abandoning Symbian?


Posted on February 4, 2011  /  0 Comments

The NYT reports a possible alliance that appears to be a reaction to the rise of Android.

Shares of Nokia, the mobile phone market leader, climbed for a fourth day on Thursday amid speculation that the company may be poised to announce a software alliance with Microsoft designed to revive its struggling U.S. smartphone business.

Nokia’s shares have risen more than 4 percent since Monday when an analyst, Adnaan Ahmad of Berenberg Bank in Hamburg, urged the Nokia chief executive — and former Microsoft executive — Stephen Elop, to form an alliance that would put Microsoft’s Phone operating system on Nokia’s advanced smartphones.

Such a move would be a break for Nokia, which historically has avoided ceding key parts of its business, like software, to outsiders.

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