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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by spiderfarmer on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:01PM (#16476071)
I am confused. What exactly did Microsoft buy if Nokia can come back with everything they had previously?
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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by Nokinside on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:33PM (#16477595)
They bought only Nokia's mobile phone division and license for the Nokia brand for a few years. Nokia Research, Nokia Networks, the brand and the patents are still owned by Nokia.

After MS sold what remains of the Nokia phone manufacturing (including feature phone capacity that sells 70 million phones a year) to Foxconn, Foxconn and Nokia made HMD Global happen. Nokia provides brand for 10 years, patents and research, Foxconn finances the operation and builds the phones.

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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by pjmlp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:43PM (#16484904)
Also to note, HMD has lots of former Nokia employees, and uses the former Nokia Mobile building in Espoo.
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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by rando444 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:10PM (#16476174)
Microsoft sold Nokia's mobile assets to a Foxconn subsidary.
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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by abrowne on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:14PM (#16476833)
Who license the Nokia brand from Nokia, since the MS deal only included a time-limited use of it for consumer devices.
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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by ddalex on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:00AM (#16482147)
And the design of the phones is made in Finland, by HMD Gobal, which is staffed with a lot of former Nokia engineers.
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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by expertentipp on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:41PM (#16477107)
10 years lease contract for Nokia’s former headquarters in Espoo. That’s about it;)
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