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(mock up)China: Microsoft`s new smartphone will be launched in 2013.
According to Chinatechnews Suning stores a China company who started to work with Microsoft in 2007 and was its channel in the debut of Windows 7, recieved the visit of Jean-Philippe Courtois, Microsoft's global executive vice president and Microsoft worldwide president, in Suning`s new headquarters in Nanjing and implemented comprehensive talks with Zhang Jindong, chairman of the Chinese consumer electronic retail chain.
The two companies reached an agreement on their comprehensive cooperation over the next few years, and they expressed cooperation intent in various sectors, including e-commerce, product sales, and marketing.
Based on the agreement, Microsoft's new smartphone, which will be launched in 2013 (before rumors said mid 2013), will be first sold via the retail channels of Suning.
Microsoft said that it will consider Suning as its prior sales channels for these two new products.
In other rumors Foxconn has already secured a manufacturing deal with Microsoft for the Surface phone,
