TC Interview: Nokia CEO Elop On Phablets, 41 Megapixels And Competition

It was over a year ago that Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership to make Windows Phone the primary operating system for Nokia?s smartphones. But the real test in the consumer market starts now, the first full year of Nokia selling its new handsets, with a portfolio of four models shipping in a range of markets, including China. Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, is all too aware of the challenge ahead. Although his company is still the world?s biggest handset maker, its leadership is now much more narrow, at 23 percent, according to Gartner. And its fightback strategy on Windows Phone is effectively starting from scratch: Windows Phone accounted for only 1.9 percent of smartphones sold in Q4 2011, a decline on the 3.4 percent it took in the same quarter in 2010. We got a chance to sit down with Elop earlier today, in a meeting room at the top of Nokia?s ginormous MWC stand, to talk about some of the challenges and opportunities the company is facing up ahead, and how its news this week will play into that:

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