FIRST PICTURES: New Nokia Windows Smartphones Revealed

The first pictures of what are supposed to be Nokia Windows based Smartphones has emerged.The concept handsets appeared on website Engadget.

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The designs emerged less than 24 hours after a deal between Microsoft and Nokia was struck in Europe.

Running the Windows Phone 7 operating system the brightly-coloured phones boast full touchscreens with some Nokia design already showing through. Observers claim that the images reveal that Microsoft and Nokia may have been working together for some time.

Windows Phones will now use the Bing search engine and Nokia Maps and bring its smartphone camera expertise to Windows 7 Phones, which has seen market-leading Carl Zeiss lenses and Xenon flashes deployed in recent years.