Nokia begins shipping Windows 8 Lumia smartphones
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer holds a Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone during a Windows Phone 8 launch event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Oct 29, 2012, in San Francisco, California. The Windows Phone 8 marks the Seattle-based company's latest update from its two-year-old Windows Phone 7 platform as the company looks to compete in the increasingly dense smartphone segment dominated by rivals Apple and Google. --PHOTO: AFP
HELSINKI (AP) - Nokia says its Windows 8 phones will hit stores in Britain and France this week, before reaching Russia, Germany and other select markets in November.
The Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are the ailing company's first handsets to use Microsoft's Windows 8 software, launched last week.
In North America, AT&T will sell the new models, while Verizon Wireless - the largest cellphone carrier in the US - will be the only operator to sell the Lumia 822.
T-Mobile will offer the Nokia Lumia 810. All three will have phones in stores in November.
