Nokia Elop: Application problem is still the biggest challenge of WP platform

Nokia released three new Lumia at Microsoft's Build conference today, and every time he used converse shoes to suit his dress, he released the new Beijing April 3 Afternoon news, at the Microsoft Build Developer conference today, Nokia Executive Vice President Elop (Stepehen Elop During the opening keynote address, three new machines were released: Lumia 930, Lumia 630 and Lumia 635. After the keynote speech, Nokia arranged a new meeting outside the build venue, and he answered the reporter's questions at the meeting. "The application problem remains the biggest challenge for Windows Phone platforms, and applications such as Flipboard never landed on the WP platform," he admits candidly. But he also mentioned the optimistic side, the current WP platform has 250,000 applications, every day has 500 new applications, and Instagram and other excellent applications continue to enter the Microsoft platform. To this end, Elop thanked developers for their support for the WP platform and Nokia handsets. He also stressed that Nokia has been trying to solve the hot applications of the problem, the top 100 Apple and Google platform applications, has entered the WP platform, and Nokia is working to promote more localized applications, to the local users to bring more practical products. Elop said there was no immediate solution to the application problem, but he mentioned two major improvements in Microsoft's launch today that could help defuse application problems. First of all, users can only purchase one application to be used for multiple Microsoft devices, which facilitates them. Second, developers can develop windows and WP apps more simply by universal Windows apps components. Elop is confident about the new version of software WP 8.1 released today by Microsoft. He said the WP 8.1 system's voice assistant Cortana, Pull-down menu, and many other improvements will be the Nokia Lumia mobile phone has a more powerful power to further attract users to use the Nokia phone. This summer, all Lumia more than 520 mobile phones will receive WP 8.1 upgrade push. Asked whether Microsoft announced that the WP platform was free to bring more competitors to Nokia, he said he welcomed it. WP platform needs to be able to attract developers, more OEM partners into the WP platform, can bring help to the entire ecosystem, will also benefit Nokia. Asked whether Nokia would consider stepping up the function of self-portraits, he admits that self-portrait has become a popular and objective user requirement, and that Nokia will certainly pay attention to this, but he cannot give a product timetable. Some media mentioned that the Nokia two new flagship mobile phones Lumia 1520 and Lumia 930 are equipped with 20 million megapixel camera, and did not use the previous flagship Lumia 1020 on the 460 Pixel Super Sampling camera. Mr Elop explained that the cameras on Lumia 1520 and 930, although only half Lumia 1020 pixels, did not mean only half of the imaging quality, which is still the best picture in the smartphone world. But Nokia will continue to push 46 million-pixel technology and apply it to future flagship handsets. Every time he attends a new Nokia launch, he takes the converse shoe with his suit outfit, and the color of the shoes is the same as the colour of the release phone. At the Lumia 1020 conference he wore yellow, 1520 was red when it was released, and the Nokia X was green when it was released. Today he was wearing orange-colored shoes while speaking at build, and the afternoon new meeting was replaced with green shoes. Microsoft's deal to buy the Nokia hardware department for 7.4 billion dollars is now nearing completion, pending approval by a handful of countries. Mr Elop, who has been appointed executive vice president of the Microsoft Equipment Division, will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satia Nadra (Satya Nadella). Lumia 930 is a 5-inch 1080p flagship handset, which will be available in June this year for $599. Lumia 630 Positioning the low-end market, divided into a single card version and dual SIM version, the price is 159 U.S. dollars and 169 U.S. dollars, Lumia 635 is Lumia 630 4G LTE version, the price of 189 U.S. dollars. Lumia 630 and 635 will be listed at the end of May this year and are the first Lumia handsets to be pre-installed with WP 8.1 systems.