The announcement at a Berlin electronics show comes
amid expectations that smartphone makers may turn increasingly to
Windows devices after a US jury decided many of Samsung's Google
Android-based phones infringed Apple Inc patents.
Samsung Electronics became the
first handset maker to announce a smartphone using Microsoft's latest
mobile software, making its surprise, hurried announcement just days
before the highly anticipated launch of Nokia's version. Samsung said
the ATIV phone would hit stores in the October-November period but did
not give an exact start date.
The brief announcement at a
Berlin electronics show comes amid expectations that smartphone makers
may turn increasingly to Windows devices after a US jury decided many of
Samsung's Google Android-based phones infringed Apple Inc patents.
The brief announcement at a
Berlin electronics show comes amid expectations that smartphone makers
may turn increasingly to Windows devices after a US jury decided many of
Samsung's Google Android-based phones infringed Apple Inc patents.
Samsung's ATIV S Windows phone
sports a high-end 4.8-inch display, Corning "Gorilla" glass, and an
8-megapixel rear camera and 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera.
The ATIV S features a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.8-inch
high-definition Super AMOLED display, 1GB of RAM, microSDHC support, an
8-megapixel camera, and a 2,300 mAh battery.
Samsung's Windows-based
smartphone, introduced on Wednesday, marks the first in a 'big lineup of
new hardware' from the South Korean company based on Microsoft's
software, Microsoft executive Ben Rudolph said
.
Samsung hopes the new device
will take the focus away from its loss of the court case. Apple is now
seeking speedy bans on the sale of eight Samsung phones, moving swiftly
to turn legal victory into tangible business gain.
Nokia, the ailing Finnish mobile
firm, once the world's leading producer of phones but now struggling to
reverse losses, is due to unveil its new Lumia line of smartphones
using Windows Phone 8 in New York on September 5.
Analysts say the introduction of
Samsung's Windows phone may be designed to assuage concerns that
Microsoft will favor Nokia, whose Chief Executive Stephen Elop --
himself a former senior Microsoft executive -- has staked its future on
the Windows platform.
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