T-Mobile may offer Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone handsets
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T-Mobile and Nokia are expected to announce next week that the Lumia 710 Windows Phone, and possibly the Lumia 800 as well, is headed to the U.S.
Nokia’s Lumia phones are the handset maker’s first devices to run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, the product of a deal between Nokia and Microsoft announced in February and signed in April that’s reportedly worth billions of dollars.
The colorful new handsets are already available in Europe, but so far Nokia hasn’t announced a U.S. carrier for the Lumia, despite saying that its intent is to have at least the Lumia 710 available in America by sometime next year.
Nokia hasn’t yet said whether the Lumia 800 will also be available stateside. Nokia also hasn’t introduced any other planned Windows Phone devices outside of the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800.
On Friday, T-Mobile sent an invitation to the press for an event in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 14, that reads ‘T-Mobile and Nokia have something exciting in the works. Be amongst the first to experience it.’
The band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, as well as DJ Sam French, will perform at the event.
For details on the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800, check out our previous coverage of the handsets here.
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