Nokia Android Phones Release Date, News, Specs & Price: Nokia and HMD Global Eying 2017 in Release Of New Smartphones?

After its long years of absence in the smartphone industry, Nokia android phones are going to be back and probably with better features. The year 2017 will be busy for HMD Global as the company will be responsible for bringing the Nokia brand back as early as Q1 2017.

Nokia has always been an innovative company and has produced excellent phones such as the Nokia Lumia 1020 that have the 41-megapixel camera, and the Nokia 3650 with its circular keypad, Gadgets 360reported. But with a lot of missteps and its choice to make Microsoft Windows Phone to be its platform, not a lot was heard from them since then.

Now, Nokia will be back with Nokia android phones and have even been reported that it will have a year-end release.  However, Nokia noted that the Finnish company would require licensing and the right partner, according to Forbes.

HMD Global came into its rescue and acquire its business from Microsoft, which now means the company has access to Nokia's patents. HMD Global will also work with Foxconn's subsidiary FIH for the Nokia android phones manufacturing. 

With Nokia already in the works, rumors are now circulating that the Nokia android phone will offer low and mid-range devices and the Finnish company will offer different tier for each price range. While the upcoming Nokia smartphones may also bring nostalgia back but this will not be enough.

Nokia android phones will need to compete with big companies such as Apple, Samsung and Google. The company will also have to compete with Huawei and other Chinese companies if they want to enter the Asian market. 

As much as the upcoming Nokia android phones will also contain the latest specs such as the rumored Snapdragon 820 or 821 processors with Android 7.0 Nougat, it will all come into pricing and the right marketing strategy.

Nokia Rises Again: New Android Phones To Debut 2017

 

Yes, that’s right, Nokia is coming back  into the market and is to launch a new Android smartphone in early 2017.

HMD Global, the company formed by ex-Nokia executives licensed the Nokia handset brand from Microsoft on Thursday, and have reportedly already signed and sealed partnerships with Google and phone manufacturer Foxconn.

But will nostalgia help re-establish the Nokia brand as a going concern, or are the glory days of being the world’s leading phone manufacturer well and truly in the past?

Arto Nummela, the head of HMD Global thinks not. “Consumers may be carrying different smartphones now, but are they really in love and loyal to those brands?… We want to be one of the key competitive players in the smartphone business.”

The original Nokia phone business was bought by Microsoft in 2014 and was used to launch the now dead Windows-based Lumia phone range. Microsoft ,however ,culled the brand in 2015 after a series of disappointing results showed that its peak, the Windows range of phones only accounted for 2% of smartphone market share.

The Nokia brand itself lived on as a maker of old school ‘dumb’ phones mainly in Asian markets and Eastern Europe.

The Mighty That Have Fallen

Nokia, like Blackberry, Yahoo,  and other former tech giants found itself on the backfoot when it missed the initial land grab for first generation smartphones, and then did not manage to pick up market share with its own hybrid smartphone operating systems. The decision to then hitch its horses to Microsoft’s unpopular (if technically brilliant) smartphone OS brought the company to its knees before Microsoft bought the brand out and replaced the Nokia logo with Windows Phone.

HMD has now however resurrected the brand and has exclusive rights to use the Nokia logo on mobile phones and tablets for at least the next decade.

While Nokia itself as a company is an independent entity from HMD and will have no financial stake in the new range of Nokia mobile devices, HMD will pay royalties to Nokia.

Time will tell if Nokia will once again become synonymous with mobile phones people want to own in the future, or whether they should remain as pleasant memories of yesteryear.