AT&T to bring out Nokia phone with Windows

LAS VEGAS – AT&ampT on Monday said it will sell a Nokia smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone software. The device represents Nokia and Microsoft’s best opportunity yet to break Apple and Google’s hold on the U.S. smartphone industry, the world’s most lucrative.
Nokia Corp. CEO Stephen Elop joined Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer in unveiling the telephone a press event in Las Vegas ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show. The presence of both CEOs was a sign of the importance the organizations place on the device.
The telephone, the Lumia 900, will use AT&ampT Inc.’s new “LTE” wireless information network, for faster downloads. It is a slab-like touch-screen telephone in the vein Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The organizations said it will be available “in coming months.” They didn’t reveal the cost.
Nokia of Finland is betting that it can reverse its sinking fortunes by switching to Microsoft’s new telephone computer software, and Microsoft is paying it billions to do so.
For Microsoft, the partnership with Nokia is a chance to break into smartphones, which are dominated by Apple and Google Inc., via its Android software. Other phone makers have also put out Windows phones, but sales have been slow.
T-Mobile USA has said it will sell a far more modest Lumia model starting Jan. 11. It is the fourth-largest U.S. carrier. AT&ampT is the second-largest, right after Verizon Wireless.

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