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I am confused. What exactly did Microsoft buy if Nokia can come back with everything they had previously?

• rando444 9y ago
  Microsoft sold Nokia's mobile assets to a Foxconn subsidary.
  • abrowne 9y ago
    Who license the Nokia brand from Nokia, since the MS deal only included a time-limited use of it for consumer devices.
    • ddalex 9y ago
      And the design of the phones is made in Finland, by HMD Gobal, which is staffed with a lot of former Nokia engineers.
• expertentipp 9y ago
  10 years lease contract for Nokia’s former headquarters in Espoo. That’s about it;)
• Nokinside 9y ago
  They bought only Nokia's mobile phone division and license for the Nokia brand for a few years. Nokia Research, Nokia Networks, the brand and the patents are still owned by Nokia. After MS sold what remains of the Nokia phone manufacturing (including feature phone capacity that sells 70 million phones a year) to Foxconn, Foxconn and Nokia made HMD Global happen. Nokia provides brand for 10 years, patents and research, Foxconn finances the operation and builds the phones.
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    Also to note, HMD has lots of former Nokia employees, and uses the former Nokia Mobile building in Espoo.