Nokia remains a separate company and the Microsoft agreement allows Nokia to get back into phones next year, and they intend to do so. (See link below.) The bes

Nokia remains a separate company and the Microsoft agreement allows Nokia to get back into phones next year, and they intend to do so. (See link below.) The best phone engineers being laid off today will probably be rehired by Nokia. The Microsoft deal turned to be heavily in favor of Nokia. They got 7+ billion dollars, and will continue to make and sell phones, except they will now be Android phones. Essentially Nokia got $7 Billion for staying out of the phone market for a couple of years. Nokia to make phones again in 2016: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-nokia-phones-idUSKBN0OY21320150618 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-nokia-phones-id...