On Wednesday evening, HMD Global, the Finnish company that acquired Nokia's
feature phone business last year, unveiled the first flagship Android phone under the Nokia brand.
Not exact matches
Google has announced that its previously Android - only Google Lens
feature is now rolling out to iOS users who have the Google Photos app installed.First unveiled
last year at the Google I / O 2017 conference, Google Lens uses the company's image recognition and machine learning algorithms to identify the subjects of photos and videos and present additional helpful actions and information to the user.For example, if you take a picture of a
business card, Google Lens will offer to save the
phone number or address to one of your contacts.
In the year and a half since Google
last rejigged its
phone hardware
business, Pixel has managed to carve a niche for itself, owing to its first - in - class cameras among other standout
features.
Last year, Microsoft Mobile announced the sale of its
feature phone business, described as an «unwanted extra» to HMD Global, a Finland - based company made up of mostly ex-Nokia staff.
Just
last week, Microsoft announced it was selling off its low - end
feature phone business, coinciding with the announcement that the Nokia brand would be returning to the mobile scene.
Nokia's Symbian - based smartphones from the
last decade are seen as today's «
feature phones»,» and it's a
business Microsoft is selling to Foxconn and HMD Global.
Microsoft themselves even announced that they had formative plans to sell its
feature phone business to a Foxconn subsidiary for $ 350 million, which may also mean that we have potentially seen the
last of the colourful and promising range of Lumia devices.