Nokia Confident About First Windows Phone Arriving in Q4

From PC World: Nokia has "increased confidence" that the first of its smartphones with Windows Phone will ship in the fourth quarter, the company said on Tuesday.

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop seems to have set his sights on getting a Windows Phone-based product out for the important end-of-year holiday shopping season, in order to help turn around the company's smartphone fortunes. The company's teams are aligned around that goal, he said in a statement.

The company won't divulge ship dates until closer to when the first phones arrive, but the pressure is on to deliver the devices this year, Elop said when the company announced its first quarter results.

Several chances to divulge more information are coming up shortly. On June 21, Elop will give a presentationat the Connection 2011 Conference, which is organized in conjunction with CommunicAsia2011 in Singapore. He will give an update on the company's partnership with Microsoft, and set the stage for a number of product and service launches, according to the program.

Elop is also scheduled to talk at the Open Mobile Summit, which takes place next week in London.

Last week, Nokia was one of the companies that said it will use the upcoming Mango version of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. "We already have Nokia phones running Mango in our labs," Microsoft said at the time.

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