Nokia First Windows Phone Device by the End of the Year.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has stated that work has begun on its first Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Elop has announced that he’s hoping to begin manufacturing the first Windows Phone handset by the end of the year with a hopeful launch date of early 2012.

Nokia is currently engineering Windows Phone devices and is expected to wait for “Mango”, the next version of Windows Phone, until it unveils them later this year. “Mango”, the codename for what will likely be named Windows Phone 7.5, is currently in the early beta stages at Microsoft.

Nokia is reportedly waiting for multitasking, IE9 mobile and others before it releases its first Windows Phone device