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by abimaelmartell 3042 days ago
Didn't knew that Nokia still sells smartphones :O

EDIT: added the still

2 comments

Nokia has been selling smartphones since before the iPhone.
Way before; the first S60 phone came out in 2002[1] and the original Communicator was from back in 96.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator

Strictly speaking Nokia isn't selling smartphones, HMD is. Nokia itself it primarily an IP company, the Nokia brand being part of that IP. Nokias business-model is about licensing their precious IP to other companies, in this case to HMD.
Not at all. There are more than 100k employees in Nokia as of today.

Nokia is a B2B company that sells most of the backbone equipment for telecom (Those 4/5G stations, every other Service Routers or core routers out there, etc etc ).

The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016 helped a lot here.

Oh, right. To my defense, I feel like NSN always has been bit distanced from Nokia proper
To be fair, there is Nokia Networks and Nokia Technologies. IP licensing is a very big part of Nokia Technologies.