Nokia has issued a statement today reaffirming its intent to get back into the smartphone game, mostly reiterating statements made by the company's CEO in June. However, the company's plans revolve around finding the right licensing partner who will be responsible for manufacturing and distributing the phone — similar to how the Android-sporting Nokia N1 ...
Stephen Elop, then Nokia CEO, famously said that the Android OS didn’t offer the company a sufficient opportunity for differentiation in the global smartphone marketplace. Accordingly Nokia exclusively adopted the Windows mobile OS instead. As we know the company didn’t have much success with its Windows-based Lumia smartphones and sold that division to Microsoft. Elop went ...