In The world's largest phone maker by volume, Nokia, has declared that today it was increasingly confident its first Windows Phone would reach consumers this year.
Nokia spokesman, Doug Dawson, said, As we stated previously, we have increased confidence we will ship our first Windows Phone product this year.
Currently Nokia is in a sort of transitional stage, as it is changing its smartphone software platform to Microsoft's Windows Phone from its own Symbian.
Microsoft and Nokia have already unveiled a guide to help developers port Symbian apps across to Windows Phone. "From design consideration to data binding, the porting story addresses many aspects of the process that will be useful to you; the developer," a post on the Windows Team Blog read.
Symbian Qt has also been added to the Windows Phone API mapping tool so as to "speed up the learning curve to Windows Phone", the blog post explained.
The first stage of this mapping takes in the core libraries for Qt 4.7 for Symbian, including QtCore, QtGui, QtLocation, QtNetwork, QtSensors, QtSql, QtXml, QtWebKit, QML Elements and QML Components.
From 10th October, Microsoft is holding a series of roadshows in an attempt to woo Symbian developers over to Windows Phone.
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