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by pjmlp 2144 days ago
Nokia is doing quite well, not only did they use to money to buy back the Siemens part on the Networks business, they now own Bell Labs.

Also despite being only Nokia branded, their Android phones are just as good as ever, and the only Android brand that I actually get updates on, versus the one shot update in a device's lifetime that I have had from other OEMs.

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The Nokia that is doing well now is not the part that got bought by Microsoft though?
Nokia is a big company, with a long history.

They had two main branches Nokia Mobiles and Nokia Networks, Nokia Networks eventually joined the networking business from Siemens and thus became Nokia Siemens Networks.

Microsoft did their business with Nokia Mobiles business division, which as we all know they end up acquiring it.

With that money, Nokia bought back the NSN part that belonged to Siemens, replacing Siemens with Solutions on the name.

Many of the people nowadays working for Nokia branded HMD Global phones are actually former Nokia Mobile employees, and the Espoo building is the same I used to visit a couple of times as NSN employee.

My G6 just got an update 2 or 3 days ago... which bumped my Android security patch level to April 2020, lol.