Nokia announced on Wednesday that a newly-established, independent firm called HMD will begin offering Nokia-branded basic and smartphones as well as tablets. The new devices will be based on the Android operating system.
The new firm will be headed by former Nokia executive Arto Nummela. Since Nokia sold its phone business to Microsoft about two years ago, he's been overseeing their mobile business in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
HMD Global is a new company formed in Finland specifically for the purpose of reconstituting local Nokia engineering and design talent by a long time Nokia exec. They could have easily gone to China and been "run of the mill" but they decided to stay in Finland.
Nathaniel Mitchell
Maami sauna
Anthony Bennett
Finally... bombing third world countries with explosives just wasn't cutting it.
Jaxson Sanders
Why not make it with iOS instead?
Ryder Peterson
BERGELE :DDD
Jayden Martin
Foxconn's participation in this is also interesting. Its subsidiary FIH Mobile is the company that today picked up the remnants of Nokia's former featurephone business from Microsoft for $350 million. HMD global and FIH already have a collaborative agreement in place "to support the building of a global business for Nokia-branded mobile phones and tablets." The Nokia N1 tablet was built by Foxconn in partnership with Nokia and the new HMD venture, while claiming independence, appears to be a formalization of that budding relationship.
Nokia who own a 50% stake in HMD, will have a seat on the board of directors at HMD global and it will furthermore "set mandatory brand requirements and performance related provisions." The outcome will be a new hardware company that has all the design expertise of Nokia and all the manufacturing acumen of Foxconn, via its FIH Mobile subsidiary. And this will all have to be integrated with Nokia's own push into wearable devices in the wake of its acquisition of Withings.
Christian Martinez
IS THIS REAL LIFE?
Michael Walker
Mongol phones are so last decade. Chink phones with shark SD cards are the fresh cool meme.
Kevin Taylor
JUMALAUTA
Evan Foster
yo soy tu padre
Camden Garcia
So, I guess we'll have the most bloated Android on the market. I'm 100% sure it will be nowhere near stock with those normie social apps.
Carter Johnson
>implying >what is Foxconn?
Matthew Harris
Honestly even though it wouldn't be the same based Nokia as before im thinking about it just because the Nokia name itself is worth more than the actual phone.
Aaron Sanchez
Why would it be? Nokia doesn't have their maps or email service or online storage business anymore. It will be stock with maybe their awesome Z launcher as default launcher.
Gavin Anderson
>it wouldn't be the same based Nokia as before
It will probably be better because Foxconn is involved and they get all the best hardware since they make the iPhone.
Don't forget it's also ex Nokia employees running this new company.
Bentley Brooks
>Don't forget it's also ex Nokia employees running this new company.
Doesn't matter. they don't have their patents anymore and microsoft is sure as hell not going to hand it over to them
Connor Carter
NOKIA O K I A
I can't wait for this. My Lumia 925 was easily the best feeling phone in terms of build quality I have ever owned, with a very bright screen and fairly good (for a 2013 model) camera.
If Nokia can bring out a phone with their legendary Finnish build quality, a great camera, great specs, and great battery life... it will be hard to beat.
I dunno if is enough to tempt me away from Nexus though. Xposed, easy root and not voiding the warranty to unlock the bootloader are pretty excellent perks.
Nathaniel Carter
So the world's first 5G phone is pretty much guaranteed to be a Nokia now since Nokia basically owns 5G.
Jordan Morris
Nokia didn't sell their patents to microsoft
Henry Evans
>they don't have their patents anymore and microsoft is sure as hell not going to hand it over to them
ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT???? MICROSOFT DIDN'T BUY ANY OF NOKIA FUCKING PATENTS!!!!!
NOKIA STILL OWNS ALL THEIR FUCKING PATENTS!!!!!
Gabriel James
the lumia phones are magnificent for their price
can't wait for the perkeles
Grayson White
PERKELE
T. Finnish person
Andrew Wilson
Whatever POS it was i bought as a replacement for 3310, it was made in China and thus i took it back and have continued to use 3310 to this day.
Kayden Young
have you beaten snake yet?
Joseph Gutierrez
Your standards are low, therefore your opinion doesnt matter. I've yet to see a decent, so-called 'smart' phone, that is actually viable as a mobile phone as well.
Cameron Cook
you sound like a crazy person
Liam Ross
>925
That's like made in india tier shit as nokia moved away from making their phones in finland
Ryan James
I wrote dozen similar games in the 80's to every non-PC platform, with different languages and was literally hooked on one my creations: thousands of hours with TAC-2 smoking. Thats why i've never dared to even test the Snake.
Wyatt Harris
>made in india but the phones don't smell like shit
Jaxon Morgan
Using them feels like shit though.
Gavin Gray
So let me get this straight. Microsoft paid $7 Billion to buy Nokia's phone business to prevent them from making Android phones.
Microsoft then writes off the entire $7 Billion as a loss and then fires more than 90% of the employees they acquired.
Nokia then returns to the smartphone and tablet business with the fired employees by using Android.
So happy Nokia got the last laugh by taking $7 Billion from Microsoft to continue their Android smartphone and tablet business.
Mongols won.
Caleb Turner
>buying phones made by finnols
TOP
FUCKING
KEK
Grayson Martinez
>his hands have never been graced by the divine presence of the N900
Leo Rodriguez
microsoft is just full of bad decisions
Charles Lopez
kekd
do we know when they will present a smartphone? I am curious if they plan on releasing a compact phone like the z5 compact
Levi Lewis
If these new phone and tablets are 100% made in the EU then I'll be sure to get them
Nathan Russell
Nokia-Microsoft partnership has been a colossal mistake from the very beginning.
Xavier Richardson
you have never bought a nokia phone have you? Nokia used to be considered the best phone manufacturer in the world before samsung and blackberry came over, and now that they're back this could be a very exciting breath of fresh air into the market.
Luis Long
ANDROID WON
Sebastian Sullivan
no it hasn't
the phones were great
all M$ had to do was to get Google to let them use their app store on Windows
Evan Campbell
>the phones were great No they weren't.
Josiah King
WHAT THE FUCK NOKIA IS FINNISH???????
I thought they were Japanese my entire life
Logan Cooper
Yeah, as mentioned before they didn't get the patents. They didn't get the Nokia brand either. Nokia hq is still nokia, not microsoft. What did they even buy? Employees? They fired so many of them.
Jonathan Bennett
>tfw meego will never come back and we probably won't get a successor to the n9 I loved mine to death. The n9 was awesome.
Tyler Carter
>japanese
Nah, that' samsung. That's one thing to be glad of though, Japan is known to be one of the biggest supporters and backers of the NSA.
Joshua Smith
I hope you're joking lad
Parker Hall
...
Kayden Harris
I mean the part where you said Samsung is a japanese company.
Joshua Nelson
so it's south korean, big whoop, it still is a NSA backer.
Andrew Robinson
>made in finland Actually they will be made in Vietnam.
Jonathan Reed
Who cares, nokia will NEVER ever comeback, its fucking over let it just die forever and stay dead.
NO ONE CARES ABOUT NOKIAS ANYMORE
Xavier Richardson
>foxconn is the best because iPhones Kek
Liam Phillips
>the phones were great Why does everyone always say this with every startup brand that fails?
Jason Turner
sounds like the Oracle/ sun acquisition but Nokia learned the lesson and Microsoft thought they could reinvent history
Ryan Hall
>NOKIA YES >Android FUCK NO
Dylan Bell
This was my reaction too.
They should try to resurrect MeeGo or go and use Sailfish, since that was developed by the former Nokia employees and it can run Android.
Blake Howard
they should have revived symbian
Jackson Brooks
Symbian actually gives better battery life
Blake Roberts
E 90 SUCCESSOR WHEN
Logan Martinez
FINLAND I N L A N D
Sebastian Morales
give me new n900 and i will be happy
Joshua Sanchez
No, he sounds like a sane person.
Sebastian Bennett
My Nexus 5 wasn't bad. The earpiece was a little quiet though. I've ordered a redmi 3 pro, hopefully it's got a better earpiece and microphone.
Bentley Nelson
M A E M O E E G O
Carter Thompson
Why would you ever post such bait?
Mason Hughes
7 B I L L I O N
Is this the biggest cucking in history?!
Adrian Nelson
Hyvaa huomenta
Brody Lopez
Based ebinland please save us from the shitshow that current smartphones are
Jordan Kelly
Dear god why wouldn't they let it die..
Caleb Brooks
Could we see > maemo > meego > sailfish on a large scale after the production has started with android?
Evan Ramirez
Oh, so the people laid off by MS went back to nokia?
Eli Fisher
>he was actually serious
Joseph Young
>nokia >with android >made in Finland
it can't hit the market soon enough
Bentley Ross
Pajeet CEO will ruin it all. You heard it here first.
Jason Russell
Excellent news. :DDDD
Kayden King
What makes you think Nokia will be relevant again? They died with the advent of smartphones.
Jacob Cox
They should revive MeeGo, not that lagroid overweight crap.
James Gutierrez
My first three mobile phones were Nokia, 5110, 3310 and the N70. If they bring out an Android Nokia I will be queuing up to buy it like an applefag at the latest iShit release.
Liam Campbell
Hopefully this will have a better run than Jolla.
Angel Jackson
POST YFW MASTER CUCCKER GOT CUCCKED!!!
Owen Torres
benis :DDDDDD
Jack Gray
why not maemo or meego or tizen or whatever the fuck it is
Luis Bennett
There is no place for a second OS in the phone market. Too much saturation.
Kayden Brooks
t.butthurt iphone user
Cooper Diaz
>made in Finland
judging by the current events, the majority of the products will be made in chinkland,vietnam..etc.
however, i am really happy that the brand has come back. I am currently using sony but i would be more than pleased to return home to nokia. I am especially curious about new feature phones because android sometimes feels too much for my phone needs. a qwerty phone with a good mail client and 3 inch or more screen which can run popular messaging apps is enough for me. i basically want a modern blackberry bold with a lighter, more simple OS.
Ryan Bailey
I've decided, my next phone will be a Nokia (after two non-Nokia phones)
Nolan Watson
Most Nokia phones were not made in Finland for quite a while. Most were assembled in Hungary and such cheap countries from cheap chinese components. Some electronics and maintenance work was done in Finland, but very few models were made there in the later days of Nokia.
Mason Wood
>be Nokia >realize you can't do the smartphone thing >sell your phone production to M$ >use the money to improve your other branches >Microsoft's shit excuse for a phone OS sucks, nobody wants Windows phones >Nokia now has made significant progress in 5G infrastructure research The ice is thin around the Finns
Anthony Adams
...
Aiden Sanders
>japanese >samsung
Parker Bennett
please come back, Nokia. You fucked up, but we need you to save us from the generic bullshit Samsung is feeding the world
Joseph Roberts
>touch screen flip phones (two 5 inch screens) >phones with slide out QWERTY keyboards >round smartphones (5 inch diameter) >phone with a screen that goes around the phone (like the samsung S6 edge) Can't wait for all the crazy shit we'll get to see
Owen Morgan
>The ice is thin around the Finns
Best rhyme ever.
Carson Davis
Pajeet CEO literally saved he company
Jose Bennett
>The new devices will be based on the Android operating system.