Microsoft Closing Nokia Down?
 

http://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_ca...news-18400.php

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/m...the-old-nokia/

Lots of reports coming out that Microsoft are about to kill off the last vestiges of the phone operations that they bought from Nokia (or haven't already sold). A further 1350 job losses for Finland and the death of handset expertise in the area.

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Wouldn't surprise me, especially given the recent sale of the feature phone portion. But let's be honest; who's going to miss Nokia under Microsoft? I cannot think of one decision or product that came from that union that is currently noteworthy.

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Nokia is now belongs to Nokia at Finland, and new Nokia Original phones are coming :)

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Sad to say, but this was more or less expected outcome as Windows Phone couldn't compete with Android/iOS duopoly regardless of massive stash of cash Microsoft threw into it. It fared even worse after Microsoft acquired Nokia phone business and Nokia brand was faded out. Interesting to see what kind of effect this has on new company designing the return of Nokia branded devices.

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The difference is that little revived Nokia will not be old does-as-it-pleases Nokia for good and bad. I dont expect anything revolutionary like Maemo-Meego-WebOS. We can probably expect little more than safe formulaic Foxcon-China built rectangular Android touch phones.

I worry that the mobile device sphere is finally slowing down and homogenizing. The only real hope I see for anything N770,800,900 interesting is that they are mainlining the Android kernel into bog-Linux meaning we can all have evil blob binary drivers for most hardware. We will probably be able to run x11 on most Android devices we can get past the bootloader like how we do with laptops.

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Were Finland factories transfered to Microsoft as part of the deal or dismantled?
It will be interesting to see Nokia regaining control of former "Made in Finland" factories

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I would be surprised if they left these ageing resources to idle in a climate controlled factory under dusty tarps for five years on the possibility that they might decide to re-enter the phone making business. They probably were sold and loaded onto a ship or sold for scrap.

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Hahaha no, i was thinking if factories are still used to make WP Lumias / S40 phones or whatever or if sold to other tech company. I lost interest since MS adquisition so i don't know the details. I mean, is there any possibility we will see again phones "Made in Finland"?

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with Atari TOS

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Hey, that'd be kinda cool. I still have fond memories of my Atari STs; TOS really combined the best concepts of Apple's Lisa / Mac GUI with an OS that was much more efficient... :)