Sentences with phrase «handset business make»

Does Microsoft's $ 7.2 billion purchase of Nokia's handset business make the idea of splitting Microsoft into separate devices and services organizations any easier or smarter?

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The goal is to make BlackBerry's handset business cash - flow positive through the Foxconn agreement, with hopes of returning to a profit in fiscal 2016, Chen said.

It sold its handset business to Microsoft in late 2013 and has since focused squarely on making telecoms network equipment.

BlackBerry Ltd. said on Tuesday it will stop making its Classic model, raising further doubts about the future of the smartphone pioneer's money - losing handset business as the company shifts its focus to software.

It sold its handset business to Microsoft (MSFT.O) in late 2013 and has since focused squarely on making telecoms network equipment.

Another business line makes handsets for companies such as Nokia Corp..

When Apple made a phone, it turned out it wasn't really competing in the handset business; it was Get the latest slate of new MTV Shows Jersey Shore, Teen Wolf, Teen Mom and reality TV classics such as Punk'd and The Hills.

Blackberry CEO John Chen has stated that this phone is make it or break it and that the company would be out of the handset business in a year if it can't make a profit from it.

Chen preceeds this statement, however, saying: «we are focused on making faster progress to achieve profitability in our handset business», which explains the motivation to move over to the Android platform.

BlackBerry's John Chen detailed why his company had chosen to move to Google's Android platform: «At the same time, we are focused on making faster progress to achieve profitability in our handset business.

In fact, it was the relationship between Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop that made Lumia smartphones possible and led to the eventual sale of Nokia's handset business to Microsoft.

«It makes it look even thinner than it is,» said Hagen Fendler, the chief design director of Huawei's handset business.

The HTC U11 Life does suggest that the Taiwanese phone makers may continue making lower - budget phones — in some markets, it's an Android One device — but that still leaves the future of HTC's premium handset business in question.

There is no mention of how its handset business is doing since retreating from the game and licensing its brand, with the most notable Android - powered smartphone being the TCL - made KEYone.

After Microsoft snapped up the Nokia handset business and purchased rights to the Lumia name — dropping the Nokia element altogether — the company set out to make the handsets a new outlet in which to offer the Redmond giant's services.

However, Verizon and T - Mobile are making smart moves in the business by shipping the handsets earlier than usual.

While the fundamental focus will remain on phones, Surface, meetings with devices like PPI and Xbox hardware, Microsoft is in a move to make certain changes in its newly acquired Nokia handset business and its Lumia lineup.

Given the idea that Nokia really will end up having their handset business owned by Microsoft in full in the near future, it makes a lot of sense that Microsoft would support the wireless standard they'd already have in place.

Doubters have wondered why Nokia — a company that's made an almost wholesale bet on the Windows Phone OS (with the exception of the Asha platform), and whose handset business is in the process of being absorbed by Microsoft — would build anything with Android inside.