Some good news here for those Nokia fanboys who are patiently waiting for the first set of Windows Phone 7 devices from the Finnish giant.

According to Eldar Murtazin, a man who is known for solid news regarding the world of Nokia, the Finnish giant first two Windows Phone 7 handsets are codenamed W7 and W8 respectively, and are expected to hit shelves either late 2011, or early 2012. The Nokia W7 will have the hardware designs similar to the X7, while the W8 will look a lot like the Nokia N8, no other information about these handsets were forthcoming, however.

The end of Symbian might be just above the horizon, but Nokia is still putting support behind the platform due to legal obligations.

Nokia plans a massive 150 million Symbian devices during the Windows Phone 7 transition, not only that, but come summer 2011, Nokia promises to update Symbian handsets with a new UI and a few features. Nokia's legal obligation is forcing them to put this much support out for Symbian, even though it will be phased out for Windows Phone 7, so there is no point developers should waste time and money on the platform, drop it and move on.

Disappointment and more disappointment, the Nokia and Microsoft deal is on the verge of being a dead duck, long before the first Windows Phone from Nokia hits the market.

According to Daily News & Analysis, the first Windows Phone 7 handset from Nokia, won't be gracing the palms of fans for another 12 months, yes, you read correctly, Nokia's first Windows Phone is a year away. This information first came from the Managing Director of Nokia India, D Shivakumar, so it has to be true, and quite unexpected since Steven Elop was boasting on how Nokia must move swiftly.

Nokia has been murmuring about the next billion recently, they said that there is a billion people in the word right now who doesn't own a mobile phone, so of course, Nokia is going after that billion.

Few days ago, Nokia launched a new phone, the Nokia X1-00 to gain their next billion in the so-called third world countries. This phone is a step up from a regular cheap Nokia phone, it has the ability to play back your favorite musics, it has a huge speaker on the back so you can easily share music with your friends. It's a great looking little phone, going for $48 USD so anyone with a job shouldn't have a problem picking this up.

Symbian is all but dead, we don't see a return for the OS ever so there are no reasons for developers to continue supporting the platform, hence why Samsung is trying to poach Symbian developers for their Bada OS.

We do not see a problem with Samsung calling for Symbian developers, but the question is this, why should they put their time and effort towards Bada? The OS is going nowhere, it has no real presence in the market, and Samsung could easily slit its throat anytime now due to lack of performance when compared to its competition. Bada is basically a sinking ship, if Symbian developers are wise, they shouldn't jump from one sinking ship to the other, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 are out there.

The announcement of Nokia and Microsoft slipping under the sheets with each other, is still hot on the lips and fingers of many, and with this little rumor, the chit chatter will only ignite to new heights.

Bloomberg did some snooping and got the mother of all secrets of the year so far, their sources claim that Microsoft plans to pay Nokia and sum of $1 billion USD, that is amount Nokia will get for not choosing Android over Windows Phone. The money is not the only juicy bit about this new, however, because the deal also allows MS to use selective Nokia patents.

Mozilla, the guys behind Firefox, has been trailing behind the competition for a while now, both on the desktop and on mobile, and it doesn't seem they will catch up any time soon when it comes to the mobile version of their Browser.

The newest version of Firefox mobile was released today for Android devices and the Nokia N900, many improvements were made to make the browser better, but the size is still too large, you are looking at a whopping 17MB, this is a mobile browser, last time I checked, what the hell is up with the size of the thing? At least it is smaller than the previous version. There are reports claiming how fast the browser is, but the checker boards are still there, which is annoying, and it still uses too much RAM.

We all know about the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, which caused a huge uproar across the blogsphere, but one of the big questions many kept asking was, how will Nokia go about releasing a "cheap" Windows Phone 7 device? It appears Nokia is well poised to do so.

CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop, said in an interview that "we have become convinced that we can do that very quickly", when quizzed about cheap Windows Phone handsets. We are not sure how Nokia plans on doing so, when you consider that all Windows Phone 7 devices currently, must have a 1GHz processor and a 5MP camera. Since this is Nokia, the largest Cellphone manufacture, there is a good chance they might just be able to pull this off.

Microsoft Widows Phone 7 started out slowly, but with everything they demoed at MWC 2011, the OS is definitely set for greatness. One of the neat coming features Microsoft demoed, was the interaction between Windows Phone 7, and Xbox Kinect, it looked wonderful.

Motion gaming is not for everyone, but it is something the casual market has been eating up since the release of the Nintendo Wii, and then, Xbox Kinect. By bringing Xbox Kinect support to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft proceeded to make Windows Phone 7 the best gaming smartphone platform out there today, and with Xbox Live already working wonders, the future is bright. Demo video after the break, you will need to have Silverlight installed for the video to work.

Nokia and Microsoft partnership announcement was huge, got the attention of the whole mobile industry, but you know what is also interesting? The handsets. Just a short while after the big announcement, images official concept images of Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 device was leaked, and guess what? We are in love.

The concept images seem to be a huge departure from Nokia's regular hardware designs, this is actually slim, sleek, and sexy with vibrant colors. The only thing missing from the concept, is an actual hardware keyboard, we do hope Nokia incorporates a hardware keyboard in their first phone, that would seal the deal for me, considerably.