Nokia said late on Monday that it can start designing and licensing smartphone handsets in 2016, with a partner who could take care of manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer support. The company had sold off its smartphone unit to Microsoft in 2013 in a deal which forbade the Finnish company to license its brand name to any smartphone manufacturer for 30 months after September 2013. The timing of Microsoft's apparent disinterest in mobile business is near perfect as Nokia will be free from...
Nokia said late on Monday that it can start designing and licensing smartphone handsets in 2016, with a partner who could take care of manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer support. The company had sold off its smartphone unit to Microsoft in 2013 in a deal which forbade the Finnish company to license its brand name to any smartphone manufacturer for 30 months after September 2013. The timing of Microsoft's apparent disinterest in mobile business is near perfect as Nokia will be free from...
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