[faizanaziz]

Laying off jobs is kind off expected since there whole software division has become redundant due to Micrsoft's OS... Agreed they still have to make some software but that's still way lesser than what it did previously.

Whats troubling is that it is reducing manufacturing... Does it actually expect to sell less phones and if it does than how does it plan to make money... They are mass market devices, numbers are really important

[juhanaj]

These layoffs don't affect their software division. This is mostly about moving production to Asia.

They will also stop manufacturing phones in Finland. The plant in Finland won't be shutdown (yet) but they won't be manufacturing phones anymore.