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1 posted on 11/19/2014 11:35:22 AM PST by Swordmaker
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Nokia re-enters the mobile market after selling its phone business to Microsoft with a new tablet that looks VERY familiar. . . because they're copying the Apple iPad mini . . .

Aaah, Nokia, we thought better of you. PING!


Apple iPad Mini on the left, New Nokia Tablet on the right.


Apple iPad Mini Trade Dress Infringement by Nokia? Ping!

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2 posted on 11/19/2014 11:41:54 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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You have to wonder why Nokia [and others] didn’t introduce a tablet or ipad much earlier.


11 posted on 11/19/2014 12:25:38 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Swordmaker

Windows 10 tablets will win over over everyone...... : )
Now if I can only figure out which 10” Samsung Galaxy tablet to buy as they make a gadzillion models of them!

I just came across racist pricing at Amazon...

White version $429 vs Black version $449
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-Edition-Black/dp/B00F3SOHNU

If Samsung gives me a tablet then I promise not to riot!


37 posted on 11/19/2014 2:55:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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Nokia is back in the mobile phone business, after a fashion.

It has granted HMD Global an exclusive, 10-year license to the famous brand, allowing the Finnish startup to sell Nokia mobile phones and tablets.

Meanwhile Microsoft, which bought Nokia’s mobile phone activities in 2013, is finally getting out of the feature-phone business, selling its remaining interests in the Nokia brand and its Vietnamese phone factory to HMD and to FIH, a subsidiary of contract manufacturing giant Foxconn, for around $350 million.

Microsoft isn’t giving up on phones altogether: It will continue to develop the Windows 10 Mobile OS used in phones from manufacturers including Acer, Alcatel, HP, Trinity and VAIO, and in its own Lumia phones.

Nokia is now tightly focused on manufacturing telecommunications network infrastructure, following its acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent and its sale of the Here mapping business.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3072138/mobile/microsoft-leaves-feature-phone-business-as-nokia-moves-back-in-sort-of.html

http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/05/18/nokia-signs-strategic-brand-and-intellectual-property-licensing-agreement-enabling-hmd-global-to-create-new-generation-of-nokia-branded-mobile-phones-and-tablets


77 posted on 05/18/2016 10:14:19 AM PDT by Viiksitimali
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