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Nokia Wants To Make Phones Again
An anonymous reader writes: Nokia has indicated that it's interested in returning to the phone-making business. In a post on the company's website, spokesman Robert Morlino explains that although they sold their devices business to Microsoft last year, they're still interested in the phone industry. They're not capable of building their own devices, and it looks unlikely that they'll be able to build a new hardware section in a reasonable time frame. Instead, they're looking for a partner to build the actual phones (and support them). Nokia would contribute design and branding. All that said, their deal with Microsoft prevents them from getting back into the phone business until Q4 2016, so we won't be seeing Nokia phones soon either way.
Yeah, the gutting of Nokia in terms of phones is pretty complete.
Microsoft has succeeded in knocking them out of the market, getting their IP, and sending them on their way.
I still can't decide if this was a brilliant strategy by Microsoft which worked, or a completely inept attempt to expand their competencies in cell phones.
Either way, Nokia and its shareholders seem to have gotten royally screwed in the process.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
...this, after last week we heard that Jolle (itself an offshoot created by some ex-Nokia folk) wants to spin off it's hardware making business.
I predict Nokia will magically find it's hardware partner by this time next week.