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Credit: Reuters/Nokia/handout Related News Nokia's Elop: Windows phones have U.S. carrier support 8:23am EDT Analysis & Opinion Do tech giants really need a tax holiday? Taking Siri out for a spin? Related Topics Technology » Media » By Tarmo Virki and Georgina Prodhan LONDON | Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:52am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Nokia unveiled two sleek new Microsoft Windows phones on Wednesday in time for Christmas, a first step in the ailing cellphone maker's fightback against Apple and Google. Chief Executive Stephen Elop presented the two new smartphones, the first fruits of his big bet on Microsoft software, to a 3,000-strong audience in London, saying they represented the beginning of a new era for the Finnish giant. "It's a new dawn for Nokia," Elop said as he unveiled the high-end Lumia 800 and mid-range Lumia 710, which will go on sale in key European markets next month. In an interview with Reuters, Elop said the world's biggest cellphone maker had transformed itself during his 13-month tenure, which has seen a shake-up of senior management and thousands of lay-offs. "It is a different company operating on a different clock speed," he said. "The amount of effort and passion and work that's been accomplished that we were able to show off today is the best evidence of that." Nokia shares, which have halved in value since Elop announced his high-risk partnership with Microsoft and ditched its old software platform in February, were up 3.1 percent at 1323 GMT, outperforming the wider market. Elop said the new phones' minimalist design and superior navigation features would make them stand out among rival Windows phones, some of which have been faster to market with Microsoft's new Mango mobile platform. Christian Lindholm, a partner at design agency Fjord who formerly managed Nokia's classic S60 and S40 user interfaces, said the new phones showed a renewed confidence in Nokia's traditional strengths. "They're getting back to their roots -- simplicity," he said. "They've stripped out the noise and focused on what people need to communicate, navigate and socialize." Analysts were positive about the new phones, though they said the first results of the Nokia-Microsoft pairing remained well short of an iPhone killer. "These devices are a good start, but the reality is that they are pretty much plain vanilla Windows Phone products," said Ben Wood, director of research at UK-based telecoms analysis firm CCS Insight. "The real fruits of Nokia's and Microsoft's labors will come next year ... but it remains a Herculean task to recapture this lucrative market from Apple and (Google platform) Android." The Lumia 800, with vivid colors and a curved, black display, features Windows Phone's live icons on the home screen, which automatically update news, weather and Facebook feeds. It also boasts free navigation and Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 browser, and will sell for about 420 euros ($584) excluding taxes and subsidies, putting it in the same bracket as Apple's iPhone and Samsung's top Galaxy phones. The Lumia 710 will sell for about 270 euros. "The Lumia phones do have some strong selling points in their own right ... and they offer a look and feel that's radically different from anything seen previously on a Nokia device," said John Delaney, research director at technology research firm IDC. HERCULEAN TASK Nokia has suffered most in recent years in the United States, where operators have spurned its offerings in favor of the iPhone and popular Android models such as the Motorola Droid. Elop said the company planned a portfolio of new products for the U.S. market early next year, and said Nokia did have U.S. carrier support. In Europe, Nokia has launched the new phones with the support of 31 operators and retailers, which will help push the phones into the hands of consumers and secure subsidies. Microsoft's mobile platform has a market share of just 2-3 percent, compared with Android's near 50 percent and Apple's 15 percent of the smartphone market. Analysts and developers said Microsoft's platform was emerging as the third player at a fortuitous time, when Google's planned $12.5 billion offer for Motorola Mobility was creating uncertainty among other Android phone makers. "They got really lucky. There is a lot of confusion in the Android marketplace now," said Carolina Milanesi, analyst with technology research firm Gartner. Elop said it was an open question as to how much disruption the Google-Motorola deal would have, but said any indication of problems should help. "I think that any confusion or questions in the other ecosystems can be something that can be an advantage to the Windows Phone," Elop told Reuters. The phones will go on sale in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain in November, and in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the end of the year. Nokia also unveiled four new basic phones for emerging markets, where it still holds a leading position. Nokia's third-quarter results beat low expectations, sparking hopes that the company can survive a painful revamp, but smartphone sales still dropped 38 percent from a year ago. The annual Nokia World media and industry event in London, where the launch took place on Wednesday, includes speakers from the world's largest carriers, China Mobile, Vodafone, Orange and MTN. ($1 = 0.719 Euros) (Additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen in Helsinki; Editing by Erica Billingham, Andrew Callus and Will Waterman) Technology Media Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) crimsondrac wrote: Honestly, Microsoft should get out of the mobile market. They have failed time and time again and now they are going to take Nokia down with them. Except, Microsoft could probably withstand another failing phone OS. Nokia seems to be betting the farm on MS and I doubt MS will be there to bail them out when they are getting ready to close the doors. MS should just focus on their desktop OS and stop trying to make their desktop OS more like their failing Mobile OS. MS just keeps making bad decision after bad decision. Oct 26, 2011 11:10am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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