Nokia plans comeback with release of new phone

Mobile phone giants, Nokia is set to sell phones again as the company looks forward to a fresh start in 2016 after it lost its domination of the mobile phone market in 2007 following the launch of iPhone.

Sources say Nokia is in the second year of a ten year plan to return to the top of the mobile phone market again.

Read also: Samsung announces a new virtual reality camera

“We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area,” said Rajeev Suri, Nokia’s chief executive, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Nokia is yet to announce a release date for the snake-enabled device as close watchers and fans of the brand can’t wait to have a feel of the product when it is eventually launched.

Recall that Nokia sold its phone making arm to Microsoft in 2014. The deal prevented it from using its brand on
phones until the end of last year.

Then, in July it confirmed its plans to re-enter the mobile phone business, once it found a viable manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer support partner to replace Foxconn.

“If and when we find a world-class partner who can take on those responsibilities, we would work closely with them to guide the design and technology differentiation as we did with the Nokia N1 Android tablet,” a spokesman for Nokia said last summer.

RipplesNigeria …without borders, without fears

Join the conversation

Opinions

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now