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gotta say. I am baffled by the historical accuracy (though, if someone finds any inaccuracies, you know I'm not good at history. lol!). But I found something inaccurate anyway: [QUOTE]2001: The next big thing was a desktop computer with a +1.5GHz Pentium III, 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 64GB video card, and a 766p display. Ofcourse it had Windows XP, DVD burner, and Cable/ADSL connection.[/QOUTE]
or was it 64MB.

though, in the end, it makes sense to #BeProud.

EDIT: #Hashtags don't work on #TMO. They are stupid anyway (oh!).

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Nokia just announced that 70 out of its 400 employees in Finland at the Technologies division are being made redundant. Can't say that bodes well for future phones / consumer products.

I suspect as part of the audit for the merger, they decided it was too costly and not paying its way. At least they seem to be going for job cuts as opposed to outright disposal (for now).

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Let me guess. None of those 70 are in any kind of managerial position.

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Pretty sure some management will be going, and certainly non-technical jobs ... it's nearly 20% of their workforce. They said they'd start negotiating redundancies with staff now ... so I assume they're hoping most of it will be voluntary.

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Will they be going to Jolla? ;-) Or where?

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Nokia N925

https://m1.behance.net/rendition/mod...g?cb=490363228

https://m1.behance.net/rendition/mod...g?cb=490363228

https://m1.behance.net/rendition/mod...g?cb=490363228

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desing by fans :) coming soon.. 2015 31 December

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How do you fit an earpiece/loudspeaker over a microUSB port?
Or more importantly how do you fit in a camera over a 3.5mm AUX jack?

Stupid render is stupid.

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consept :D

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Source?

http://itechfuture.com/the-design-co...ne-from-nokia/

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Yes. Basically same thing if I drew a picture of a car and claimed that's going to be released by Porche next year.

Fan art. :)

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http://mynokiablog.com/2015/02/16/no...-all-products/
Coming soon...

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From that article.
All that says is that if there's going to be another Nokia device, it will only be so in name. Nokia may claim that they are designing the thing, but the reality is that they are using a modification of an Apple design (probably something that Foxconn have off the shelf).

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one android phone is all android phones

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symbian phone coming soon running android app

Interesting. Source?

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is that true that nokia will build smartphone again in 2016 after loose from microsoft rules??
i found in google search said nokia still had 3 bussiness unit that were not followed by microsoft :
1. Nokia HERE --> Digital Mapping System
2. NSN -->Nokia Siemens Network and
3. Advance Technology

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coming soon.. 2015 31 December

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As was clearly said quite a few times in this thread...

No, they most likely won't. They don't have the will or capacity to do so - they just escaped the market for a reason and it wouldn't make sense for them to come back.
If anything, they are going to slap their brand on some Chinese device, like they are doing with their tablet ("Nokia" N1) right now.

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This is true. Please stop spreading silly rumours; Nokia has exited the smartphone business for good, and the reason is that it is not profitable for them.

The only "Nokia" devices you will possibly see are OEM devices that have licensed the name "Nokia" but there will be nothing else than the name tag in the front panel.

tldr; nothing to see here, please go home and close this thread.

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Ahh, a foldable display. Classic!

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From Kauppalehti and German Manager Magazin, Nokia will return to phone market in 2016.

http://www.manager-magazin.de/untern...a-1039530.html

http://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/su...T?ext=ampparit

Model would be the same as with N1 tablet, Nokia would design the product, license the brand, manufacturing etc to third party.

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I can't see how Nokia in its current state is able to design any competitive mobile phone? They sold the whole mobile phone division with employees to Microsoft. I don't think there is much of anyone in current Nokia that have mobile phone (or tablet) design experience. I'm pretty sure the deal is just some brand licencing where the partner does all the hard work and Nokia only permits to place the "NOKIA" logo on top of it.

But if by some miracle Nokia will actually design some new phone/tablet hardware, maybe they could co-operate with Jolla to provide the OS and let Foxconn manufacture it? That might be the unique "Nokia" product that can find its initial (niche) market and grow from there...

Nokia CEO: Will be back to designing & licensing Phones in 2016.
 

http://i1.wp.com/www.nokiapoweruser....size=533%2C425

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has just (re)confirmed what we have been telling you all along about Nokia’s future smartphone plans. Nokia will be back to smartphones designing but will take the brand licensing route for bringing them to the market.

This was conveyed at the time of release of Nokia N1 as well, but Nokia’s official statement sometime ago that they are not planning to manufacture and sell Phones currently, muddied the waters a bit. Nokia has now settled the confusion for ever in an interview to the German “Manager Magazine”.

Hamburg – Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri is planning the re-entry into the mobile phone business: “We will see us suitable partners to”, said Suri magazine in an interview with the manager and announced it to license the brand from 2016 to mobile phone manufacturers. Still, it is not allowed to sell mobile phones the formerly largest manufacturers in the world: 2013, the Finnish group had its mobile business to Microsoft Show stock chart sold and is contractually committed to stay away of the industry until the second half of the year 2016.

After the end of the clause, Nokia will Show stock chart challenge his former partner in the business, but: “Microsoft makes mobile phones, we would they only design and provide the brand name per license. But of course we would be able to attack, otherwise we could let it be equal”, Suri said in an interview.

Source

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This would be actually very nice for Jolla if they could get some licensing on the Nokia name. Would be great publicity for Sailfish OS, that is running on the Nokia :)

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I am wondering if Nokia Mobile division sold to Microsoft included Nokia Concept division... They certainly didn't sell their patents.

It's possible that Nokia is using their patent division, and probably their Internet-Tablet-without-Cellular (if they still have this division), to roughly sketch out their concept-futuristic phones to be manufactured by somebody else.

The foldable is actually funny... Except, the display will not survive the strain.

If you want actually unusual form-factor, never seen before in cellular phones... Take a look at instant Polaroid camera:

https://filmphotographyproject.com/s...dSpectraSE.jpg

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The only thing will bring Nokia back if they reinvent mobile device.

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No, I'd rather Jolla not be associated with that dreaded Nokia name. It just brings back so many nightmares, that Dr Watson might have to double my dose of Antivirus. I've just been crashing all over the place ever since my consciousness was uploaded into the internet.

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What would be nicer for Jolla is if Nokia decided to contribute software development resources, assisting in hardware adaptation as well as providing open platforms that Sailfish could run on. Maybe they'd get involved with "PutinOS" or whatever the Russian gov sanctioned OS is called.

Jolla licencing the Nokia name is back-asswards and I would guess without the OS improving drastically, most customer's reactions would be "WTF? This isn't a Nokia".

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It won't be hardware design and it won't be Jolla. It will be an off the shelf Foxconn piece of hardware with some Nokia software customisations through Android with Nokia branding. Just like the N1 tablet.

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Nokia Technologies is now almost entirely based in Silicon Valley. There will be no involvement with Russia or Jolla.

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"We will look for suitable partners," he said, perhaps implying that Foxconn may not be the manufacturer of Nokia's new smartphone. He continued: "Microsoft makes mobile phones. We would simply design them and then make the brand name available to license."

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/it039s-of...coming-in-2016

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why symbian ?
http://i.hizliresim.com/pgpPrm.jpg

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Why not...?
There's still millions of symbian devices in use. And much of the so called "more current" tech is inferior.

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yeah ...working with russia "from" silicon valley is not happening at the moment...likewise working with jolla ...the " North American Friendly Smartphone Company" ..isn't going to happen either....

wait a sec.!!!
I got it!
I know who!!!
guys...guys...I KNOW WHO THOSE "SUITABLE PARTNERS" ARE for Nokia's reemergence ...
The combined power and Might of two great powers...
Venice and the Maldives...
:D
Get it?..
[glub..glub]
:D

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It's a prop..
It's toooo clean.
It's tooo new.

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Could be, however it does not mean it is so :D

People still do use Nokia Symbian devices, as business phones for example. As it happens, we currently can only get Lumia devices for company use, hence many people rather use their old real business phones than take the new toys.

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continues with nokia symbian? 2016 :eek:

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Well, what do you know, the Commodore phone is now a reality!!!!
(it's not like the one you've been waiting for :p but it's still Commodore)

www.commodoresmart.com/