Finnish firm Nokia's mobile business which was acquired by Microsoft, is going again to return to the phone market. In 2016 Nokia promises to provide apparatus without logo American IT giant.
It tells the portal Re/code, the organizer of the return of the Finnish company on the market has become one of the 3 remaining after the deal with the software giant units - Nokia Technologies. It is engaged in the licensing of 10 thousand patents, the company, and research and licensing products from other companies.
Today Nokia Technologies on the market does not Shine, and released only 2 products: Android-Zlauncher program and the N1 tablet, which was the first device announced by the company after the implementation of the Microsoft mobile division. The N1 tablet working under the control of the operating system Android and has a proprietary graphical shell, but was released by a third-party manufacturer that sells it in China under the brand Nokia.
According to experts, in the case of future phones will be something similar. About the reaction of Microsoft for a similar solution yet unknown. But note that according to the deal with Microsoft, the company is not permitted to use the Nokia brand on phones up to the 4th quarter of 2016. Besides, Microsoft has already started to distance itself from the brand Nokia in its own main line of Lumia phones, but still applies it on low-end phones, which are well sold around the world.
Remember that Nokia announced sales of 5.4 billion euros of its own mobile business of the American company Microsoft in early September 2013. The closing of the transaction occurred at the beginning of April 2014. And last week the Finnish firm said about buying a French competitor in the field of mobile communications and Alcatel-Lucent at 15.6 billion euros.
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