The sale did not end the woes of the business. In 2014, Nokia's mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft, along with the right to use the Nokia brand for mobile phones for ten years. Its initial partnership with Microsoft to use its operating system did not help either as Windows Phone's mobile app offerings were not as comprehensive as the ones available on Apple's iOS and Google's Android.Īt this point of time, Nokia had a lineup of feature phones, and a range of low- to high-end smartphones under the Nokia Lumia and Nokia Asha product lines.īy the early 2010s, Nokia had lost major market share in the mobile phone market, and was overtaken by Apple and Samsung.

Due to various factors, including the shift in the mobile market to smartphones, and the poor choice of mobile operating systems, Nokia was unable to maintain the popularity it once had back in the 2000s. Nokia was a leading global mobile phone and smartphone maker until it began to struggle in maintaining market leadership due to the rise of more innovative smartphone offerings from Apple, Samsung and Google. HMD uses a marketing strategy advertising Nokia phones as 'pure, secure and up to date' (referring to a stock Android interface and its commitment to fast updates) as well as brand trust and nostalgia. Nokia has investment in HMD, and remains a partner, setting mandatory requirements and providing patents and technologies, in return for royalty payments. Manufacturing is outsourced to Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile. The first CEO was Arto Nummela, a Nokia veteran of 17 years, until July 2017, when company president Florian Seiche took over as CEO.

HMD is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and is largely run by former Nokia executives. HMD has a partnership with Google, and uses the Android operating system under the Android One program on their smartphones, whereas HMD's feature phones use the Series 30+ platform, or most recently, the Firefox OS-derived KaiOS. The HMD brand is only used for corporate purposes and does not appear in advertising, whereas the name 'Nokia Mobile' is used on social media. The company has exclusive rights to the Nokia brand for mobile phones through a licensing agreement. HMD began marketing Nokia-branded smartphones and feature phones on 1 December 2016. The company is made up of the mobile phone business that Nokia sold to Microsoft in 2014, then bought back in 2016. HMD Global Oy, branded as HMD and Nokia Mobile, is a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer. The former Nokia Corporation logo is currently being used on Nokia-branded phones that are developed by HMD.

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