When will we see a Windows phone from Nokia?

Nokia announced earlier this month that it was switching to Windows phone as its primary smartphone platform. The two companies have not yet reached a final agreement; that will be signed in the coming months. In the meantime, we're asking when we'll see the first Windows phone device from Nokia, creator of the world's largest phone for volume.

If Nokia wants to push out Windows phones in mass, the hardware you will need to come down in price, since Windows Phone 7 has minimum specifications to be met by all OEMs. Microsoft has already convinced Nokia that this is possible,

according to Reuters: Elop, said one of the key topics in talks to make a deal with Microsoft was convincing Nokia that it can achieve "a very low price point." "We have become convinced that we can do it very quickly," Chief Executive Stephen Elop said at a meeting with journalists of Finnish affairs.

While selling millions of Windows phones will help Microsoft gain market share in the mobile space and convince so developers can start pushing apps, it will deteriorate slightly the mark if hundreds of Nokia devices is achieved with the minimum as well as to third-world target markets willing to buy cheap Smartphone.

It is important to note that nowhere in Nokia-Microsoft Windows Phone 7 ad is mentioned: the two simply refer to your Windows. It is therefore possible that Nokia will push out 8 phone Windows on its high-end devices.

Regardless of when we will see the first Windows phone from Nokia, the Finnish company is already working on courting developers to Microsoft mobile platform. An email sent to the members of the Nokia Launchpad program obtained from Slashgear shows that they are being promised a free Nokia E7 together with "a free Nokia WP7 device.", when it is available the Launchpad is the program of development of Nokia mobile app, usually at a price of 300 each year but currently free for the first year. The full email is below:

Dear members, Launchpad

In the light of the strategy announcement made by Nokia and Microsoft last week, we are writing to you today to ensure that our commitment to you and your work to develop innovative applications for Nokia devices remains stronger than ever.

We have lots of questions and we want to reassure you that we understand, and we are here to listen to your feedback and provide you with information. Please visit Nokia conversations where you can find a lot of information about new products and http://conversations.nokia.com that may help answer some initial questions.

We are very excited by recent developments, and believe the opportunities of development for Nokia devices are as exciting and lucrative today as ever were. In addition to opportunities in the near future with Nokia and WP7, we have several new benefits to share with you today, intended to help accelerate your business app to reach the 225 million hungry app Nokia smartphone owners throughout the world today.

Today, the Qt developers can drive more than 100 million Nokia devices for their applications, and we announced that we intend to sell another 150 million Symbian devices. Nokia will continue to provide free Qt trainings, to help you learn how to make the most of this sophisticated cross-platform development. We re with enthusiasm so demand, please let us know if you'd like a training set up in your area.

We are also pleased to offer you a free entrance to the forthcoming Summit Developer World/Nokia Nokia this year. We will take care of registration costs.

To assist you with your development tasks in the short term, we will send you a free device Nokia E7 to all members of the program. In addition, we'll send you one free Nokia WP7 device as soon as it becomes available.

To accelerate the development of mobile app, we provide free technical support on all Nokia technologies for the next three months (up to 10 tickets). Similarly, if you want to take advantage of a free evaluation of the User Experience for one of your apps, please let us know and we will work with you to make such agreements.

We will also extend our business development support to all Nokia developer and members of the programme content that they are currently developing applications for Nokia devices, and we will assist you in publishing applications in Nokia's Ovi Store. We will continue to offer ideas and guidelines for ways to promote fully published applications so that you can reap the rewards of your hard work.

If you have any questions, or need help from us in the coming days, we want you to know that you can count on us to be there for you. We are really excited to work with you to discover new opportunities that will lead to future successes.