Now, the Foxconn made,
brand licensed tablet has made the trip to Mobile World Congress and we can finally see it for ourselves.
Not exact matches
Finland's Nokia launched a new
brand -
licensed tablet computer on Tuesday which is designed to rival Apple's iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft for over $ 7 billion.
Such
brand -
licensing deals - as Nokia has struck for the N1
tablet - are less profitable than manufacturing and selling its own products, but also less risky.
Nokia sold its phone business to Microsoft last year, but just months after that it launched a new
brand -
licensed tablet computer, produced under
license by Taiwan's Foxconn, with an intention to follow up with more devices.
HELSINKI (Reuters)- Finland's Nokia NOK1V.HE launched a new
brand -
licensed tablet computer on Tuesday which is designed to rival Apple's (AAPL.O) iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft (MSFT.O) for over $ 7 billion.
Polar Mobile (www.polarmobile.com)
licenses to global media companies industry - leading Platform Services that makes it fast and easy to launch
branded mobile apps across every smartphone and
tablet device.
This includes the unnamed third - party that will be producing Nook -
branded tablets in the future via the
licensing deal announced in June.
However, B&N's motivations are very different to Amazon's as well: the company admitted last month that it planned to clear its stock of existing NOOK HD / HD + models and then in future
license the
brand to third - party
tablet manufacturers, rather than make its own models.
They've
licensed their
brand to Archos, a French
tablet maker that has been very...
Barnes & Noble has again slashed NOOK prices in the UK, following its admission last month that it is clearing stock of the ereading
tablets after deciding to instead
license out the
brand in future rather than build its own models.
The Finnish company is currently operating in the mobile and
tablet space under a
brand licensing model.
Barnes & Noble saw NOOK sales plummet 34 - percent in the last quarter, and will turn instead to
licensing the NOOK
brand to future ereading
tablets so as to minimize its losses, the company has confirmed.
The about - face, announced during B&N's dreary quarterly results, comes after the company said back in June that it intended to focus on e-paper models itself and
license out the NOOK HD
brand for
tablet - style versions to third party manufacturers instead.
Nokia has signed intellectual property
licensing agreement and strategic
brand giving HMD global Oy (HMD) grant to create next generation Nokia devices —
Tablets and Mobiles.
Nokia will grant HMD, a newly formed company, the exclusive global
license to create Nokia -
branded phones and
tablets for the next 10 years and will receive royalty payments from HMD for sales of those devices, covering both
brand and intellectual property rights.
Last year, Nokia launched its N1 Android
tablet and Nokia Z Launcher that both were developed through its
brand -
licensing strategy.
The
brand -
licensing model would be similar to what the company did in the past with launching the Nokia N1 Android
tablet.
The
brand is being rekindled through a new
licensing agreement with HMD Global, a newly - founded Finnish company that'll take over the
branding and produce Nokia smartphones and
tablets running Android.
The launch of HMD comes just six months after the company signed a strategic
licensing agreement with Nokia, giving HMD exclusive use of the Nokia
brand on mobile phones and
tablets worldwide for the next 10 years.
In December, the company struck a
licensing deal that gave it sole use of the Nokia
branding on all future phones and
tablets it'll manufacture.
The newest two devices come courtesy of HMD Global Oy, the company which now
licenses the Nokia
brand for phones and
tablets across a wide range of price points and abilities.