Windows Phone 7 To Launch In China late 2011

December 14, 2010 | By Pradeep

Microsoft is running on schedule to launch Windows Phone 7 across the world. As announced earlier by Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 was successfully(?) launched in US, Europe, Australia and few other places as well. During a speech in China Yang Tianyang, Microsoft’s communications sector director for the Greater China region announced that Windows Phone 7 will be launched in China in late 2011. Also Microsoft is in discussion with Chinese handset manufacturers Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei about producing Windows Phone 7 devices in China.

According to an analyst, Symbian is the market leader in China with about 54 million phones and interestingly Windows Mobile is the second player with 12.6 million install base. China’s smartphone market is growing fast, with sales of the devices expected to total 62 million units for 2010, compared to 21 million in 2009. With the launch of Android, iOS devices and upcoming WP7 devices in China I expect some drastic change in the smartphone market in China. Also I personally think Chassis 2 specs of WP7 which will be of lower cost will drive well in developing markets.

Source: Networkworld

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About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

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paul

Don't understand the delay? They have localized for this market before.

Brianna

Windows Phone 7 keyboard only support Latin alphabet. Microsoft has yet to add support for Chinese keyboard.

Hatorade

*successfully(?) *

Seriously whats with you WMPoweruser contributors, would you rather go work for the AppleInsider?

pradeepviswav

@Hatorade As we are at WMPoweruser, we just cant tell that WP7 is a great success without any numbers..BTW, I mentioned successfully(?) to denote issues with OEM's of WP7 not the OS..

Yash

Hey Pradeep any pointers on an India launch??

pradeepviswav

As far as the inside info I got, MS is planning for 1Q of 2011. LG will also be a launch partner.

sachin

htc hd7 cming to india today( 15th DEC) ? nw thats confusing

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