• Mashable, Thursday, October 20, 2011 12 AM

Nokia will show off the first Nokia Windows Phones to the world at the Nokia World event on Oct. 26-27 in London. This is in line with the previous announcement that the first WP devices from Nokia will hit Europe this year, but an official date has been locked down. Nokia also plans to show more than one device, since Lees used plural — Nokia “phones.” Andy Lees, Microsoft Windows phone division president said that Nokia’s devices will “have differentiating hardware and software,” meaning we’re not just going to see Windows Phone Mango in a slightly different shell. The original batch of Windows Phone 7 smartphones all had very similar hardware, per Microsoft’s specifications.

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