Nokia will be back to smartphones in 2016: Rajeev Suri, CEO

By Abhinav Pathak on Jun 19, 2015 05:57 AM

Rajeev Suri, Nokia CEO has been vehemently saying since last year that his company will not be returning to smartphones anytime soon. In an interview with Germany's Manager Magazin Suri said that Nokia will be putting its name on new smartphones in 2016, it will be designing them or licensing its name for use.

You read that right, Nokia will be putting its name on new smartphone and not manufacturing themselves. They will be licensing the Nokia name just like they did for the Foxconn made Nokia N1 tablet. Nokia is looking for suitable partners to license its name.

Screen Size 7.9 inches (1536 x 2048 pixels, 324 ppi)

Camera Back: 8 MP, 1080p@30fps; Front: 5 MP

Processor Intel Atom Z3580

Memory 32 GB, 2 GB RAM

OS Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop)

Dimension & Weight 200.7 x 138.6 x 6.9 mm, 318 g

Connectivity 3G

Battery 5300 mAh

But Nokia can't even license their name for smartphones before the second half of next year, based on the terms of the Microsoft-Nokia deal. We might be looking at Nokia smartphones running Android in the second half of next year.

This comes in just a day after Stephen Elop was let-go from Microsoft. In its internal shake-up and re-organization Microsoft is beginning to consolidate its mobile devices division. It seems Microsoft is beginning to understand they can't win the smartphone wars and investing in it so heavily will run the company down further. Windows 10 Mobile might just be the last version of Windows for phones that we might see.

Source: Reuters