TCS | Patrick Henchie on the past, present and future of Nokia phones
of Nokia’s mobile phone business has been well documented. Once dominant in the feature-phone era, the Finnish company was caught flat-footed by the launch of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.
Eventually, Microsoft exited the phone business entirely, selling the phone business back to Nokia , writing off billions of dollars in the process, and leaving the mobile OS market as a virtual duopoly controlled by Apple and Google.But the Nokia phone brand never went away. After the Microsoft collapse, a team ex-Nokia executives founded HMD Global, a Chinese-Finnish phone maker, and licensed the Nokia brand name to continue building smartphones – this time running Android.
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