HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to Nokia's
phone brand licensing for the next ten years, took the stage at MWC in Barcelona today to showcase its first full line of Nokia - branded smartphones.
Not exact matches
The Financial Times reported that he is retaining the
brand, the technology and design
licenses and plans to rebuild the
phone maker.
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.
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.
Rather, all development for BlackBerry -
branded phones will be left to BlackBerry's partners, which will
license BlackBerry's technology and
brand, while the Canadian company concentrates on growing its software business.
In addition to the
brand license deal with Nokia, Foxconn and HMD paid $ 350 million to Microsoft (msft) last May for the assets to manufacture Nokia (nok)
phones.
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.
The Land Rover director of
licensing and
branded goods weighed in with a statement on the partnership: «Incorporating iconic Land Rover design and innovative technology into the mobile
phone sector with Bullitt Group presents an exciting challenge and fantastic opportunity to take the
brand into a new dimension.»
The BlackBerry
phone brand, meanwhile, has been kept alive thanks to
licensing partnerships, most notably with Chinese manufacturer TCL.
The additional confusion: Beyond their agreement with TCL, through a joint venture BlackBerry also
licensed their
brand / software to a company called PT BB Merah Putih that will be marketing BlackBerry
phones in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Instead the company has
licensed out its
brand to TCL who has been making BlackBerry
phones for the past couple of years.
As you may recall, BlackBerry as we knew it died last year when it turned its
phone business into a
brand and software
licensing unit.
BlackBerry Limited — the company formerly known as Research In Motion — stopped designing and building its own
phones back in 2016, instead
licensing the
brand out to others.
«Microsoft has agreed to a 10 year
license arrangement with Nokia to use the Nokia
brand on current Mobile
Phones products.
If you're unaware, HMD Global is a company that launched last year, with the
branding license to create new mobile
phones under the Nokia
brand name.
It's made by Bullitt, a British
phone maker known for its expertise in the area of both rugged
phones and big - name
licenses, because it also produces CAT, and JCB -
branded devices, along with those for Kodak, too.
HMD Global, the company
licensing Nokia's name, unveiled two new smartphones, as well as a feature
phone to drum up the nostalgia factor for the iconic
brand.
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.
«Microsoft is still pursuing a dual mobile Windows strategy [to] have its own
brand of
phones and
license the OS to others,» Fogg said.
Two weeks ago, HMD Global confirmed months of speculation after it revealed it secured exclusive
licensing rights over the Nokia
brand for the next 10 years, announcing plans to deliver its first line of
phones in early 2017.
Nokia -
branded phones are back in the market thanks to a
licensing deal with HMD Global.
The 8 is the first premium Nokia -
branded phone under the Finnish company HMD Global, which
licensed the
brand with a few former Nokia execs and pieced together this
phone.
«The right path back to mobile
phones for Nokia is through a
brand -
licensing model.
HMD, which has
licensed the Nokia
brand, is making Android
phones that actually run Google's Android — you might remember how Nokia tried its hand at making Android devices while under Microsoft, but it stripped its custom version of Android of all the Google apps Android users really want in a
phone.
BlackBerry has
licensed its
brand name to new and upcoming Android smartphones, but here are the best BlackBerry
phones you can buy now.
After receiving the rights to
license Nokia's
brand name last year, Finland - based HMD Global launched a total of five Nokia
phones at Mobile World Congress 2018, including the Nokia 8110 4G feature
phone.
Under the terms of the deal, Nokia can't
license the Nokia
brand to anyone that might use it to sell mobile
phones for a period of 30 months.
In the announcement, HMD will create a new generation of Nokia
branded mobile
phones through an exclusive 10 - year
brand licensing agreement.
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.
Before we get started with the device, a quick look at HMD Global's journey: after
licensing the Nokia
brand eleven months ago, HMD released eleven
phones globally (including five feature
phones), and the
brand is active in over 80 countries.
HMD Global, the Finnish company that
licensed the rights to produce Nokia
phones, is revealing the company's first Nokia -
branded Android flagship
phone today.
HMD Global, the Finnish company that
licensed the rights to produce Nokia
phones, is unveiling a trio of Nokia -
branded Android devices today that are designed to cater for the mid-range of the smartphone market.
The company completed its acquisition of Nokia earlier this year,
licensing the rights to use the Nokia
brand on its Windows
Phone handsets until November 2015.
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.
Under the terms of the patent and IP agreement with Nokia's devices and services unit, Microsoft is acquiring 8,500 patents, ownership of the Asha and Lumia
brands and a 10 - year
license to use the Nokia
brand on feature
phones.
As far as mobile
phone series S30 and S40, Microsoft has reached an agreement with Nokia for
licensing the Nokia
brand for the next 10 years.
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.
And while HMD Global (which
licenses the Nokia
brand name for its
phones) had said from the outset that it would definitely bring its
phones to the U.S., the company never provided a concrete schedule for when that would happen.
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