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Nokia Crawls Towards Comeback With New Phones Announcement (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: The "new Nokia" appears going for volume rather than margins as it makes a comeback into phones. A new venture called HMD Global has licensed the rights to the Nokia brand for use in phones, which will be made by Foxconn. Three or four new Nokia-branded devices will be launched, Nokia's China chief suggested in August, with the first to be announced before Christmas. Benchmarks for one device, named in the benchmarks as the "D1C" have been spotted, indicating a solid midrange device, with 3GB of RAM, and Android Nougat 7. The CPU is identified as a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa core running at 1.4Ghz. In 2013, Microsoft bought the exclusive right to use the Nokia brand for phones, for a limited period. That exclusivity period expires at the end of this year.
This. Bringing back Nokia's GNU/Linux tablets and phones from the noughties (with modern hardware, of course) would be a good start. Imagine a phone with a real QWERTY keyboard that actually fits in your pocket, unlike today's thin and wide slabs -- that's the good old N900.
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Nokia Maemo was not "a 3rd platform (windows phones, BB10, FirefoxOS, etc)". It was standard Linux being able to run regular commandline (and some X11) applications compatible with UNIX API existing for approx. 50 years. Windows phones are not Win32 ABI compatible (and Windows applications are not distributed in source but AFAIK Windows phones are not even API compatible). And BB10 or FirefoxOS are also from-scratch OSes, no backward compatibility there. Nokia Maemo was special, this is also why Microsoft killed it by/after acquiring Nokia.