Nokia plans to return to the smartphone market in 2016

Nokia is going to return to the smartphone market a year after the sale of its division to the software giant. A Finnish company that, under the terms of the agreement with Microsoft, can not sell mobile devices under its own brand until 2016, is actively recruiting employees and developing new phones for launch next year. It is reported that this information was disclosed by the insiders.

Recode sources said that Nokia has a number of ambitious technology projects, including those in the field of virtual reality, where companies such as Samsung, HTC, Facebook and Oculus already are present. As for the return of Finns to the smartphone market, Nokia Technologies, the right hand of Nokia, which licenses its numerous patents, will do it.

Nokia Technologies operates in the US, England and Finland. The division deals with various projects, in the past developed tablets and smartphones, which never saw the light.

At the end of 2014, Nokia released the N1 tablet based on the Android operating system. The company plans to develop new smartphones, and then license them together with the Nokia brand to other companies that will manufacture, sell and distribute them. A similar strategy was used by Kodak and Polaroid after bankruptcy.

Rumors about the return of Nokia to smartphones appeared a few days after the announcement of the purchase by the Finns of the French manufacturer of telecommunications equipment Alcatel-Lucent for 15.5 billion euros. Nokia is also exploring the possibility of selling the Here division for the production of digital maps for navigation systems.

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