Nokia to Android. In spite of everything?

Not so long ago on the Nokia page on LinkedIn there is a list of vacancies. “Well, what’s so remarkable?” Might ask you. And, for example, that among the specialists needed in the Finnish brand, are such, as a leading industrial designer, coordinator of patents, hardware engineers, application developers, and, most importantly, an engineer with experience of mobile photography to write drivers for Android. What can it mean?

Perhaps it is worth to clarify that this Nokia has nothing to do with Microsoft and with the mobile division of the Finnish company, have passed into the ownership of a soft-giant, and then renamed the Microsoft Mobile. On the contrary, it is the “free” part of the company from Microsoft, which gave users Z Launcher for Android.

Nokia to Android

And now, thanks to the application of senior vice president of Nokia’s strategy Sebastian Nyström (Sebastian Nyström), we know for sure that the Finns recruit for “new business products.” He stated this in his twitter account.

What Nokia may be planning to publish? All in the same LinkedIn company reports the following:

«Nokia creates new business built on innovation Nokia, focusing on physical and digital products and services directly to users or other client companies. We have already identified a number of product opportunities where we can affect the market in the areas corresponding to our vision, and where our brand has a weight, and we continue to look for opportunities where we can win “

Meanwhile, we know that as a result of the transaction with the company Microsoft, Nokia can not use their brand for their own phones until 2016, and may not issue a license for its use to anyone other than Microsoft, for 30 months from the date of the transaction. But we also know that Nokia still holds the majority of its patents, though, and probably can not use a name already promoted technologies (PureView, for example).

In short, Nokia could well pave the way for future phones, imagine that it could not before 2016. In addition, the company can, and that’s probably more likely to think of other products, such as wearable electronics.

By the way, about a month agoevleaks reported intentions to release Microsoft Mobile Lumia on Android . Then we learned about the major cleaning personnel in the ranks of the absorbed part of Nokia (laid off was about 18 000 employees), as well as the closure of the project Nokia X , ie gadgets on anything remotely resembling Android no longer in sight. Did it affect intentions towards the line Lumia? Likely.

Now we have a new hope. However, those who, in spite of everything, continues to wait for Nokia to Android, do not forget that it still is not quite the company that the world bestowed legendary device. Whether this part of the former big team to make a decent gadget and, finally, to give users the flagship Nokia to Android, and most importantly – is going right? Answers to these questions can only give time.

Nokia to Android. In spite of everything?