The South Korean technology company Samsung has unexpectedly launched the first smartphone in the world that runs on the new Windows 8 Microsoft software.
The announcement was made during the IFA technology fair in Berlin. The Windows Phone from Samsung is named Ativ S. What exactly is the unit cost, it was not said. Even if the Ativ S in stores, it is not yet clear.
Samsung comes with his unit to come a week before the launch of the new Lumia Windows 8 phone from the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia.
Nokia and Microsoft have been working for 1.5 years together in the competition on the smartphone market. Samsung phones turned up to now on Android from Google.
The decision of Samsung to also work with Microsoft to go into business, feeding speculation that more and more mobile phone manufacturers will opt for Windows operating systems. The Windows technology, in contrast to Android by Apple not attacked in his patents war.
"This is just the first in a long line of new devices with Windows Phone 8 software is provided" wrote Microsoft CEO Ben Rudolph about launching a company blog.
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