Today, Vodafone confirmed in-store sale of aesthetic Nokia Lumia 800 across the United Kingdom. Its release has stimulated the Finnish company’s hope for smartphone, especially in the spell of iPhone and Android.

According to reports, after Nokia finalizes its tie-in with Microsoft on Thursday, it will lay off 4,000 people around the world by the end of 2012; countries like Denmark, Finland and UK are going to be affected, according to Nokia.

Nokia is all set to unveil its deal with Microsoft that shall help in boosting its position in the Smartphone Market. Investors have had their eyes glued to this revelation for a while.

Conflicting judgments on Nokia Microsoft tie-up have been passed by the investment banks and credit rating agencies. Nokia is planning to develop its first Windows handset by the end of 2011.

The world’s largest producers of mobile phones, Nokia OVI, had the ratings of its outstanding liabilities cut by the investors’ services from Moody's. This has encouraged the weak position in the market of the Finland based company and lowering margins for profit.

After the February 11 announcement by Nokia, about its strategic alliance with Microsoft, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop made a surprise appearance during a presentation by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress (MWC); and elaborated what he terms as “a war of ecosystems.”

The Friday-announced wide-ranging alliance between Nokia and Microsoft has clearly brought software developers and companies into the limelight at the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

In what can be seen as a last-ditch effort by Nokia to regain some of its lost glory in the smartphone market and to catch up with Apple and Google, the Finnish handset-maker has joined forces with Microsoft.

With unnamed ‘inside’ sources revealing that Finnish handset-maker Nokia is in talks with Microsoft about using the US software giant’s Windows Phone 7 operating system on mobile phones, there are speculations galore that a deal may be announced on Friday.

According to research firm Gartner, despite the fact the smartphones based on Google’s increasingly popular Android operating system brought about a notable leap in global handset sales in 2010, the global handset market share of Nokia witnessed a fall during the year.