Microsoft sells off feature phone business, Nokia grants license to newly founded company

Instead of breathing fresh air into a slowly flagging family of mobile devices that was once synonymous with industry innovation and box-office success, Microsoft’s 2014-completed acquisition of Nokia’s phone business appears to have accelerated the downfall of Lumias and Windows Mobile.Meanwhile, Redmond didn’t even try to revive feature phones, accepting the market moved past the X lineup, Series 40 or Asha ...

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Nokia presents its ‘vision’ for the future, and three mysterious phones

Technically, Nokia’s old mobile phone division is no more, having been acquired and absorbed by Microsoft, which however continues to struggle in a doomed attempt to make Windows Phone, aka Mobile, hip.Meanwhile, the scraps of the once mighty Finnish outfit are reportedly cooking up a mainstream hardware comeback, aside from focusing more than ever on telecommunications infrastructure, aided by

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Nokia X will be part of the Asha line-up, coming to India in March, claims report

The Nokia X will be part of the Asha line-up. This is basically what an unnamed Senior Nokia India Executive unveiled, under the condition that his identity should be not unveiled. Additionally, said executive also unveiled that the phone will be available in India in March, in which context an MWC announcement could be highly likely. The specs that got leaked include a dual-core Snapdragon processor clocked at 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, four-inch screen with WVGA resolution, 4GB of internal storage (expandable via ...

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Nokia Normandy could still have a future yet

What’s to become of the Nokia Normandy? The smartphone’s been captivating us with its mystery for the past couple months now; what we first assumed would be some kind of Windows Phone handset has since drastically shifted in terms of our expectations, and found itself attached to the story that Nokia’s been using the hardware to test the Android waters. Even if that were true what would it mean now? With the sale to Microsoft, was Normandy dead in the ...

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Nokia Normandy render leaks, doesn’t look like the “missing link” we hoped for

More than once this month we’ve had the opportunity to discuss some Nokia codenames, and one of the most interesting we’ve heard teased has been the Nokia Normandy. The key tidbit that had us so captivated was the promise from @evleaks that “Nokia Normandy is the missing link.” But the link between what and what? After running down some possibilities, we were leaning towards the notion that Normandy may bridge the gap between Windows Phone 8 and ...

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Releasing Another Asha Phone Does Not Mean Nokia is Abandoning Microsoft

Every time Nokia announces another “Asha” low-end phone there are always people out there trying to extrapolate that into an indication that Nokia is giving up on Microsoft and abandoning the Windows Phone operating system that they are supposedly so committed to.  *cough*VentureBeat*cough*TheVerge*cough*  The truth is that Nokia has never stopped working on low-end inexpensive phones running their s40 operating ...

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This “Unknown Lumia” is Probably Not a Lumia at All

With all this official stuff on the Nokia Lumia 928 starting to land, that handset is slowly casting off the garments of rumor and speculation and preparing to step out into the light. It doesn’t look like it’s doing so without a new mystery Nokia handset rising to take its place, and today the image up above is getting some attention, thanks to that handset in blue on the right. This image comes from the cover of a leaked Nokia document outlining some of the company’s smartphone strategy. The doc talks about ...

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