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New Nokia Smartphones and Tablets Are Coming in Late 2016: Company Executive (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The resurrection of the Nokia brand may happen in the fourth quarter of this year, which could make for some really nostalgic holiday gifts. According to Chinese site ThePaper (in Chinese), Nokia executive Mike Wang confirmed that three or four Nokia-branded Android devices are on the way for the fourth quarter of 2016. The comeback effort would include both phones and tablets. There is a chance, however, that the timeline could get pushed back depending upon how things progress. It wouldn't be a terrible shocker considering we're talking about a new company, HMD. It's composed of former employees from Microsoft, the old Nokia, and others who are banding together to resurrect the once-iconic brand. The best rumor we have is that the phones will have 5.2-inch and 5.5-inch Quad HD, OLED displays, a Snapdragon 820 SOC, 22.6MP back camera, and a metal build with water and dust resistance. No word on what a tablet would look like.
Rise of the Finns!
For us to throw out of the Window. How thoughtful of the Finns.
In order for a new phone / tablet to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of smart devices it needs to be truly different. The rumored specs listed could be for any device!
Perhaps it will play the classic Nokia ring tone by default? That may turn a few heads.
People salivating over this should remember that Nokia has already released an Android; the N1. That was two years ago. Was it a good tablet? By all accounts, it was excellent. Did it make a massive effect on the market? It barely made a ripple, and was quickly forgotten. And this is a spinoff of that Nokia.
People who are expecting Nokia to come roaring back are going to be disappointed. I'd love to see some new of the old Nokia magic myself, but like Ashton-Tate, Borland, Sun Microsystems, and the like, their time has sadly passed. Nokia was exceptional at making quality feature phones, and some really smart stuff went into their smartphones (I had a 5800 and loved it), but their skills didn't map to the mass market smartphone market. Like Blackberry, they were still selling phones with some computer features, while the rest of the market was selling hand-held computers that happened to make phone calls.
Fortunately, they appear to be making tentative steps. Maybe they'll come out with some cool features and give Samsung some competition. I hope so, but I'm certainly not expecting them to become one of the big three phone/tablet vendors any time soon.
"No word on what a tablet would look like"
Usually they're rather thin, rectangular black slabs with a glass screen on the front and either a plastic or metallic back.
#DeleteChrome
Nokia's bankruptcy coming in 2017.
After using a Windows 10 mobile device (a tablet) for a few hours now, all I can say is holy shit, does Windows suck on touch devices. Christ almighty, even in "tablet" mode, it's just bloody awful. No wonder Microsoft's mobile plans are falling through, what a fucking disgrace. Even early versions of iOS and Android had a better user experience. Please Nokia, be done with Windows.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-euro...
Sigh.
I do wonder what'd have happened if they'd continued with maemo/harmattan, and put decent effort into it, rather than leaping to Microsofts side and tanking the stock price further.
se a merda da helena não ficar mostrando aquela cara de retardada perto de mim, eu faço até boquete em cachorro enquanto compilo, e faço melhor que muito metido a especialista de software.
Nokia started the smartphone era with Nokia Communicators. They had QWERTY keyboards. With arrow keys, a numeric row, extra keys for launching applications (no touchscreen!). Where is the QWERTY?
By now, that would probably mean going back into the tire business. I can't see anything else worth saving.
Have gnu, will travel.
Way back in the prehistoric days of PDA, Nokia made a couple of awesome little Linux based PDA's. If they want to make something beyond the standard Android phone, they should do a Linux based phone that can also plug into a dock and function as a full desktop. Perhaps partner with Canonical using their software base.
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Unless you control the platform, you're just another hardware vendor. People are done buying a new phone every 6 months. Nokia will enter a market where they either are just another Android peddler in a market that is already slowing. Or they will create a new platform which has no apps or developers and they'll have to negotiate for distribution rights to media in at least 50 countries which I can only imagine costs hundreds of millions.
They'll ship a few phones and fizzle because lack of interest and trust.
The first ones are being designed and built by Foxconn with a license fee going to Nokia. I'll wait until the phones are 100% engineered by Nokia before considering one of these "Nokia" phones for purchase.
Not bad, not bad. Im dropping samsung for my next round. I hope nokia will be more prompt with android updates...
If they do a decent job with low- or mid-range devices they might be able to leverage their name in areas where feature phones persisted longest, but I think that's probably a really hard place to make much money. Sure you can sell phones in Africa, but can you sell them with any kind of profit margin and still sell enough volume to make it worthwhile?
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just a little off