Nokia has a torrid time of late. The company, once a bastion of all things mobile, struggled to keep pace with Apple and Samsung and LG and Sony and, despite some very solid releases, kind of just gave up and sold up to Microsoft just before Steve Ballmer called it a day as CEO.
It was a sad day to be sure, made all the more perplexing by the fact that Microsoft –– the only Windows Phone maker in operations –– seems hell bent on making low-end, low calibre devices in a bid to soak up some market space in emerging markets, which was ironically the only thing keeping Nokia in contention during its later years.
BUT Nokia is said to be planning a return to the mobile space, and this time it will do it using Google’s Android platform as its mobile OS of choice. It will likely be a forked version of Android or something similar to OnePlus’ Oxygen OS, however, so that Nokia can “brand” itself accordingly.
This is happening too. Nokia will return to the mobile space in 2016 with Android-powered handsets. The news was confirmed by Nokia’s China President Mike Wang, who revealed the company would be using factories in Sichuan to build new Android-powered smartphones in 2016.
“No other details worth mentioning have been revealed, but at this point we could take a chance at guessing the company’s future plans, speculating that Nokia’s decision to relocate in China might lead to challenging the likes of Xiaomi, Lenovo, Oppo and ZTE next year,” reports G for Games.
Either way, this is a very exciting development. And it will be very interesting to see how Nokia attacks the market. KYM has a feeling it might just adopt a similar approach to OnePlus and Xiaomi, and if it does, well, that’d be just splendid.
More news as we get it.
by rgoodwin via Featured Articles
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