The division that made the Android phone, is the part Microsoft bought. So, this phone would help Microsoft, not rest-Nokia.

As to the deal that expires at the end of 2015:
My first impression was that it was Microsofts right to use the Nokia brand. Apparently, I was wrong. What ends after 2015 seems to be the exclusive right to the Nokia brand. It seems that Microsoft has a right to use the Nokia brand for ten years.

Source, Elop talking about the future of the Nokia brand 10 years from now: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...kia-brand.html

If I was to believe both those interpretations, this would mean that Microsoft AND Nokia can make competing phones under the Nokia brand after 2015? That is just impossible. There must be a clause that prevents Nokia from doing it, or Microsoft would already ditch the Nokia brand. They do not appear to be rushing towards that.