Nokia wants to get back into the cell phone business - ExtremeTech
Nokia was synonymous with cell phones for years as the industry took off. Almost everyone who had a mobile phone in the early 2000s was hauling around one of those giant Nokia bricks (you know the one). The smartphone revolution was not kind to Nokia, though, and Microsoft eventually bought the company’s devices and services division in 2014. Now Nokia is looking to get back into the phone game. Elop being a former Microsoft bigwig, it was a foregone conclusion that the company would side with Microsoft. After making Lumia devices in partnership with Microsoft for about four years, Windows Phone still hadn’t found its footing. Microsoft could afford to keep plugging away on Windows Phone, but Nokia. Microsoft agreed to take on all the risk itself by purchasing Nokia’s phone division for $7. 5 billion. One stipulation of that deal was that the remaining Nokia business could not produce and mobile phones until the final quarter of 2016. Nokia spokesman Brett Young has now made it known that Nokia is looking to get back in the phone market just as... As for what a new Nokia phone would look like, it would. Source: www.extremetech.com
