Nokia was once a major name in mobile and it could soon be again. A deal with Microsoft that temporarily prevented Nokia from using its name on phones is nearly up, with the rights returning to Nokia in the last quarter of this year.
And it seems Nokia isn’t going to waste any time in releasing new smartphones and tablets under its name, as three or four new devices are apparently going to be announced by the end of the year.
That revelation comes straight from Nokia China’s president Mike Wang, who spoke to Chinese site The Paper, as spotted by Android Authority.
The devices are expected to include both phones and tablets, and will be running Android, which is a big change for a company that in recent years has been more associated with Windows Phone.
The new devices won’t be manufactured by Nokia itself though, but by a new company dubbed HMD, which we’ve reported on before.
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The big question now is what specs they’ll have, as the report doesn’t shed any light on that, but earlier rumors suggested we could see both 5.2-inch and 5.5-inch phones.
Both will apparently have QHD displays, metal shells, 22.6MP cameras and high-end Snapdragon 820 processors, which would put them on the same sort of level as flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S7.
If Nokia really is revealing the phones this year we’ll have a clear idea of the specs soon, but according to the report they might not arrive in shops until early 2017, so don’t count on getting one for Christmas.
Source: techradar.com
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The Nokia name will always be remembered about how they tried to change the Mobile Market,and were doing well until Smartphones came along and struggled to Advance Symbian and further,Nokia made the Samsung name more popular as Samsung always seemed to a better grade of phone than Nokia,as the N95 v D900 was a good example,Samsung improved there Slide up phones with Springs but Nokia never did and there phones after a bit became to "Wobbly",Nokia are very good with cameras & software updates,so hope they can come back again and compete,but Nokia should just release budget Android phone at first as its not to far away from the Barcelona Phone Event,then release there Premium phones with the new chips will made available and they really compete with the Others,Mr Elop name will always haunt the Nokia Board
Nokia should really just stay dead and buried, it's too late for them now and have next to no chance against Samsung.