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Nokia doesn't belong to Microsoft. Nokia's phone division belongs to Microsoft. I imagine the actual Nokia company will begin selling Android phones in a couple
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Nokia doesn't belong to Microsoft. Nokia's phone division belongs to Microsoft. I imagine the actual Nokia company will begin selling Android phones in a couple of years again, too, so you can't call these "Nokia phones". They are Microsoft phones now.
- mseebach 12y agoNokia can't market mobile phones under the Nokia brand until 2016. Also, the company Nokia doesn't own a phone division anymore, they'll have to build one, if not from scratch, then pretty close to. That mean they don't have any competitive advantage over pretty much any other company in a similar situation. Never mind that they really, really struggled to compete in the smartphone market - that's why they offloaded the mobile phone division in the first place. In other words, I doubt very much that we will see consumer mobile phones from the not-Microsoft-owned bits of Nokia.
- Nux 12y agoI'd like to see Nokia back in business (used their phones all my life), but it indeed looks quite unlikely.
- ZeroGravitas 12y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they licensed the name out to some up and coming Chinese corporation with a difficult for English speakers to pronounce name.